ATEEZ Hongjoong, donation campaign to celebrate his ‘1107 birthday’… With fans

ATEEZ Hongjoong held a donation campaign on his birthday today (the 7th). In order to repay the love and support he received from fans, he has continued to donate on his birthday and shared the warm news of good deeds this year as well.

Hongjoong previously announced that he would be participating in the virtual running of the ‘2024 Global 6K for Water Running’ campaign with ATINY (official fandom name). The ‘2024 Global 6K for Water Running‘ is World Vision‘s representative donation run event. It is a campaign to donate clean drinking water, empathize with the difficulties of children around the world who walk 6km every day to get water, and raise awareness of the seriousness of water and sanitation issues.

Hongjoong said, “I think that whatever we do with ATINY, the memories and hearts are engraved that much longer and deeper. That’s why I thought it would be good to do a campaign with such a good cause together.” It is said that many ATINYs, as well as ATEEZ members Seonghwa and Yunho, participated in Hongjoong‘s cause.

Hongjoong held his first solo photo exhibition ‘FROM NOVEMBER 7, 1998’ in 2022, and sponsored children who dream of music careers but are not in good circumstances. In 2023, he donated the proceeds from the photo exhibition ‘WALKER A’, plus his own money, to the Korea Childhood Leukemia Foundation.

In addition to his birthday, Hongjoong has consistently spread his positive influence. In March of this year, he donated to a global water project, and in May, on Children’s Day, he donated to children in need of care from their families. He has also been appointed to the ’Bob Pierce Honor Club‘, a group of high-value donors with a cumulative donation of over 100 million won.

Meanwhile, ATEEZ, which Hongjoong is a part of, is scheduled to make a comeback on November 15 with their 11th mini-album ’GOLDEN HOUR: Part. 2‘.

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com