All posts tagged "disease"

  • In this Oct. 23, 2015 photo, Hwang Sang-gi, a founding member of advocacy group Banolim, holds a picture of his daughter Yu-mi during an interview denouncing Samsung’s response in its latest negotiations with sick workers outside Samsung buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Yu-mi’s death from leukemia in 2007 galvanized concern about conditions at Samsung factories and South Korea’s semiconductor industry in general. Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony and bad publicity over whether its semiconductor factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional offer of financial assistance. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Samsung money for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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    SK to compensate employees with work-related leukemia

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it plans to compensate employees suffering from what they claim is an occupational disease, although clear links to the working environment have not been...

    • Posted November 25, 2015
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    Number of cancer patients doubles over past decade

    By Nam Hyun-woo The chances of survival for cancer patients have risen sharply although the number of people diagnosed with the disease has nearly doubled over the past decade, government data showed, Thursday. According to the Ministry...

    • Posted December 26, 2013
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