Park Do-young, left, sales and marketing chief at Dr. Chung's Food, poses with Park Jung-soon, head of the child rights business division at Good Neighbors, hold a placard together that shows the company's donation of 30 million won to the charity organization, at the company's office in Seoul, Tuesday. Courtesy of Dr. Chung's Food

Korea's leading health foods and soymilk maker, Dr. Chung's Food, said Wednesday that it won recognition from the nongovernmental charity organization Good Neighbors for its 15 years of promoting child welfare in the country.

Park Do-young, the company's sales and marketing division director, received a plaque of appreciation on Tuesday from the philanthropic organization on behalf of the company.

The company has donated money and its food products to Good Neighbors every year since 2009. The accumulated value of the donations made until 2023 amounts to 400 million won ($290,000).

During the ceremony for the occasion, Park delivered the company's donation for this year — 30 million won and soymilk products for children.

"We've met the 16th year since we made a commitment to return our gratitude to our consumers who have been loving and supporting our brand for a long time," Park said at the company's office in Seoul, where the ceremony took place. "Our consistent contributions to society for the country will not only improve our local communities but also make us grow further alongside our consumers."

The company's donations have been made under Good Neighbors' Good Buy campaign, which labels certain goods or services that companies offer as "good products" and receives part of their sales revenue to allocate it to non-profit projects for children in the country.

Dr. Chung's Food has been printing the campaign's logo on its entire soymilk carton product lineup to raise awareness for the campaign. Part of the earnings from the products' sales goes to the organization to support children suffering from starvation.

The company has been doing charity work aside from working with Good Neighbors.

Since the company's late founder and chairman, Chung Chai-won, established the Hyechun Scholarship Foundation in 1984, the foundation has collected over 2.8 billion won and gave scholarships to 2,550 students.

The company has also been donating to the Korea Heart Foundation and the Korea Blood Disease and Cancer Association.

Late Chung, a pediatrician, established Dr. Chung's Food in 1972 and introduced Vegemil, a bottled soymilk product that remains the company's signature item.