LOTTE Chemical Increases Support for Music Therapy Activities

for Disabled Children at Bobath Children’s Hospital

█ Support 420 million KRW for 3 years until 2024 in Mom Comfort Music Game Program... Improve physical and mental health through

    music therapy activities of child patients, patients’ families, and rehabilitation therapists at Bobath Children’s Hospital

█ About 600 child patients and patients’ families participated to verify educational effects from 2018 to last year

█ Donated about 30 paintings owned by the company to LOTTE Medical Foundation... Expected to contribute to the emotional development

    and psychological stability of hospital patients

█ Vice Chairman Kim Gyo-hyun, “I am pleased at the thought of helping child patients, their families and rehabilitation therapists

    both physically and mentally through the Mom Comfort Music Game Program”... “We are expanding support to help more people,

    and we will strive to coexist and grow together with the society”

LOTTE Chemical will support music therapy for child patients, their families, and rehabilitation therapists working at the LOTTE Medical Foundation Bobath Children’s Hospital.

LOTTE Chemical and LOTTE Medical Foundation held the ‘Mom Comfort Music Game MOU’ at the Bobath Children’s Hospital in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do in the afternoon of the 27th (Wed). This event was attended by LOTTE Chemical Vice Chairman Kim Gyo-hyun, LOTTE Medical Foundation President Ahn Se-jin, and Bobath Children’s Hospital Director Yoon Yeon-jung.

Through this MOU, LOTTE Chemical announced that it would provide funding of a total of 420 million KRW until 2024 for the physical and psychological rehabilitation of child patients, emotional stability of family members and to improve healthy family relations, and to reduce job stress of rehabilitation therapists. 

LOTTE Chemical has been supporting the Mom Comfort Music Game Program since 2018 and up to last year about 600 people including around 500 child patients, 70 family members, and 30 rehabilitation therapists participated in the music game class. The child patients who participated in the class showed improved physical abilities and emotional stability, while their guardians also exhibited reduced depression and stress. Its effects were also proven in the results of the study sponsored by LOTTE Chemical and carried out by the Korean Music Therapy Association (Effect of Therapeutic Keyboard Training Program on The Hand Functions and Self-Efficacy of Children with Cerebral Palsy: Preliminary Study).

A guardian of a five-year-old patient that participated in the class said, “I could see my child’s emotions become stable and have more facial expressions while taking the Mom Comfort Music Game Class,” and added, “This was a needed and useful class for my child that was stressed out because of being hospitalized and treatment.”

Yoon Min-i, a physical therapist at Bobath Children’s Hospital Rehabilitative Medicine, said, “Children who used to get irritated and cry during therapy had the experience of enjoying the use of their hands and feet through music games, while gaining strength in their trunk, and I also witness functional improvements such as maintaining posture and balance.” Yoon added, “I learned that the synergy effect of music and physical therapy was very effective for the motor development and game development of children with developmental disabilities.”

LOTTE Chemical also donated around 30 paintings to LOTTE Medical Foundation as well. The paintings will be hung at Bobath Memorial Hospital and Bobath Children’s Hospital, and it is expected to help with the emotional development and psychological stability of patients at the hospitals.

LOTTE Chemical Vice Chairman Kim Gyo-hyun stated, “I am pleased at the thought of helping child patients, their families and rehabilitation therapists both physically and mentally through the Mom Comfort Music Game Program,” and added, “We are expanding support to help more people, and we will strive to coexist and grow together with the society.”

LOTTE Medical Foundation President Ahn Se-jin said, “Music games are actually helping not only children and their parents, but also our staff with easing job-related stress. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to LOTTE Chemical for their ongoing support since 2018, and we will actively look to improve treatment effects by improving the quality of medical services, while actively pursuing various social contribution projects for patients and their guardians.”

Meanwhile, LOTTE Chemical is carrying out various activities to practice the value of sharing. It supported the remodeling of the child care sharing center for children and offers cooking classes for women who immigrated to Korea through marriage. LOTTE Chemical is also buying rice from nearby farms and donating them to marginalized classes and one-parent families. Furthermore, it is sponsoring the KBS public benefit program ‘Donghaeng’ to help children work toward their dreams in a better environment and grow healthily.