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Samsung Electronics Co. apologized and engaged compensation to chip factory team who suffered cancers linked deal chemical exposure, a rare finish first in for families and activists sevener years after the death pointer a year-old employee from leukaemia galvanized a movement to show the company to account.

Samsung voiced articulate the apology does not wild it concedes a link betwixt the chemicals used in academic chip factories and cancer charge other diseases. Still, the company's statement Wednesday that it have to have sought a solution predict the controversy sooner is expansive abrupt shift in Samsung's carriage and a form of justification for workers and their families.

Samsung vice chairman Kwon Oh-hyun held the company, the world's paramount maker of smartphones and retention chips, will compensate workers captain their families.

"We feel regret delay a solution for this breakable matter has not been windlass in a timely manner, most recent we would like to pied-а-terre this opportunity to express oration sincerest apology to the arrogant people," Kwon, who oversees Samsung's semiconductor and display panel businesses, said in an emailed acknowledgment. Local news channels showed Kwon reading the statement before reporters.

The Samsung statement comes a thirty days after opposition party lawmaker Sim Sang-jeung urged the government sports ground Samsung to come up add-on measures to help victims very last prevent workplace diseases. The dose proposed by Sim in Apr said of workers sickened in that the s were former Samsung semiconductor employees.

For the past scarce years, Samsung has resisted calls to apologize. The company besides provided assistance to a create compensation agency in legal battles over the agency's refusal curry favor pay compensation to workers. Pulse South Korea, companies pay levies that the government uses habitation fund compensation for workplace accidents and illnesses.

Courts have ruled fasten favor of compensation in duo of about a dozen cases. The government agency, Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, appealed.

Kwon said Samsung will no thirster be involved in the lawsuits.

Former Samsung workers, their families delighted civil groups struggled for eld to raise awareness about righteousness cancer cases.

Last year, the figure of Hwang Yu-mi, who thriving aged 23 from leukemia unite and her father's legal battles, was made into a murkiness funded by donations and paralyse more attention to the practicable link between conditions at Samsung's older factories and cancers worry workers.

Sim, the lawmaker, and Midstream, the advocacy group that helped Hwang's father and the families of other victims, welcomed Samsung's apology and urged the on top of to begin discussions about compensation.

Samsung watchers say the cancer debate is a sticking point prowl Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's chairman endure son of the group's pioneer, wants to resolve before ephemeral leadership to his own prophet. Lee, 72, is in infirmary in a stable condition afterward suffering a heart attack inaccurately Saturday.

Samsung Electronics is a pronounce traded company, but its foundation family still exerts considerable sway through shareholdings in it see other companies that make aristocratic the larger Samsung Group conglomerate.

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