Super Junior's Eunhyuk Donates 100 Million Won to Create Children's Playground in Honor of Late Father

Precious donation funds totaling 100 million won, given by Super Junior member EUNHYUK in memory of his late father, have been transformed into a new play space for children.

ChildFund Korea (Chairman Hwang Young-ki), a child welfare agency, announced on the 10th that it has established the "Anthony Browne Imagination Playground" at the ChildFund Siheung Da-eulim Children's Center together with EUNHYUK.

The space was prepared using the 100 million won that EUNHYUK donated to ChildFund to mark his birthday. Previously, he made a donation on his late father's birthday in 2024, becoming the 487th member of the Green Noble Club, ChildFund's major donor society.

The Siheung Da-eulim Children's Center is a welfare facility that provides language and cultural education as well as awareness-raising activities to help children from diverse cultural backgrounds grow up healthily and happily within their families and local communities.

The newly established "Anthony Browne Imagination Playground" is a child-friendly space where children can freely play, read books, and rest comfortably, featuring design elements and artistic motifs from world-renowned picture book author Anthony Browne throughout the space.

ChildFund explained that it remodeled the existing space by incorporating the imagery and atmosphere of picture books familiar to children, allowing them to naturally experience play and reading, let their imaginations run free, and enjoy various activities.

At the time of his donation, EUNHYUK reportedly shared his wishes, stating, "I hope children can play and read freely without physical or environmental constraints, and build the strength to view the world with a positive outlook."

EUNHYUK's father passed away in a traffic accident in August 2022, and EUNHYUK has since continued making donations in his memory. Thanks to this history of memorial donations, his father was also listed as the 94th member of ChildFund's "Green Legacy Club," which honors legacy donors and those who have pledged memorial donations.

EUNHYUK's continuous charitable deeds have a long history. Starting with a 100 million won donation to the Hope Bridge National Disaster Relief Association in February 2020 for COVID-19 relief, he combined fan meeting proceeds and his own funds in April 2023 to deliver 40.04 million won in support funds to the ChildFund Korea for vulnerable family-care children and youth. In September of the same year, he donated six facepiece sterilizers to the Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters to improve working conditions for firefighters, followed by a 100 million won donation in December to "Fire Family Hope Sharing," an organization supporting bereaved families of firefighters who died in the line of duty. Last year, he continued his steady sharing by consecutively delivering 100 million won for emergency relief following large-scale wildfires in the Yeongnam region in March, and another 100 million won in July for a child abuse prevention campaign hosted by the Eastern Social Welfare Society.

(Photo: Yonhap News) (Written by Kang Kyung-yoon, SBS Entertainment News)
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