We lost another life of young Samsung worker at 7th May. This is the 55th Death from Samsung. Lee Yunjeong, who had been born in 1980, worked in Samsung semiconductor Assembly & Test factory in Onyang for six years from 1997 to 2003, and got diagnosis malignant brain cancer at 2010. After two-year suffering from [...]
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The 55th Death from Samsung – Lee Yunjeong(female, age 32) died from brain cancer at May 7th
Posted in SHARPS on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of SHARPS hailing KCOMWEL’s first recognition of workers’ compensation of a Samsung worker victim, on April 10, 2012
Posted in SHARPS, Statements / Press Releases on April 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On 10th April 2012, Samsung occupational victims in the semiconductor industry received a major boost forward in their long struggle. Below is the statement of SHARPS on April 10 regarding the ruling: Today, April 10, The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced its recognition of the aplastic anemia suffered by Ms. Jisook Kim as an [...]
Fifth Memorial Day for Samsung Occupational Disease Victims – March 6, 2012, Photos
Posted in SHARPS, Uncategorized, tagged Hwang Min-woong, Hwang Yumi, Memorial Day, SHARPS on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On March 6th, 2012, a Memorial Day was held in Seoul for deceased Samsung worker Hwang Yumi and all the other occupational deaths in Semiconductor/Electronics Industry… You can see the original and more photos of SHARPs’ activities at their website here: http://cafe.daum.net/samsunglabor/CMLV/200 http://cafe.daum.net/samsunglabor/CMLV/201
The Occupational Diseases of Electronics/Semiconductor Industry – update as of March 5, 2012
Posted in SHARPS, Uncategorized on April 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Occupational Diseases of Electronics/Semiconductor Industry in South Korea based on the information collected by SHARPS Update as of March 5th, 2012 (The numbers mean victims and deaths among them respectively) Total: 154, 61 (i.e. 154 victims found with occupational diseases; 61 deaths) Samsung Semiconductor: 85, 30 Samsung LCD: 16, 7 Samsung mobile phone and [...]
International groups and individuals sent letter of support for 140+ Samsung cancer victims, condemning state agency KCOMWEL
Posted in International Supporters of SHARPS, Statements / Press Releases, Uncategorized on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Previously on this blog, we shared that Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL), had taken the brazenly anti-worker step of appealing to a higher court against a court ruling which had overturned KCOMWEL’s rejection of two Samsung workers’ claim for compensation. That court had confirmed that indeed there was a link between the workers’ [...]
New victims of Samsung companies surface; victims keep up the yearly ‘Bahn-dahl’ activities
Posted in About Samsung, About the Campaign, SHARPS on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
New victims from other companies Recently SHARPs was able to get some information of several cancer victims of different companies from Samsung. One of them is Kim Jin-ki, 38 year-old male worker of Magna-chip semiconductor in Cheongjoo City, which used to be a part of Hynix Semiconductor. He used to work for 14 years as [...]
Factory factored into 2 workers’ deaths: Court (Joongang Daily, June 24)
Posted in About Samsung, About the Campaign, In the News, SHARPS on June 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In a blow to Samsung Electronics, a court ruled yesterday that the deaths of two employees at Samsung’s semiconductor plant should be considered an industrial accident and that Samsung should compensate their families accordingly. The two workers died of leukemia, and their families filed for industrial accident compensation with Korean Workers’ Compensation and Welfare (KWCW) [...]
A historical but partial victory of Leukemia victims of Samsung Semiconductor factory – court orders compensation
Posted in About the Campaign, SHARPS on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Message to readers from SHARPs: On 23 June, the final decision of the Seoul Administrative court on the lawsuit raised by five blood cancer victims in Samsung semiconductor factories in South Korea was announced. The judge concluded that two cases of leukemia in workers who had been operators in Giheung factory, Hwang Yumi and Lee [...]
Short news from SHARPs (April 10, 2011): April 20 will be the 100th day from Joohyun’s death
Posted in About the Campaign, SHARPS on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Korean people like the number “three”. In Korea, when we fail or are disappointed, we encourage ourselves quoting a common saying “don’t give up until the third trial”. The funeral usually takes three days. Even though I don’t know the exact historical base, but we feel the “three” as a complete, comfortable number. However, today [...]
Short video of the 46 Samsung workers who lost their lives to occupational disease – so far
Posted in SHARPS, Videos on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This short movie shows the forty-six workers who lost their life due to the occupational diseases at Samsung, one of the biggest company in Korea and one of the most famous electronic company in the world. Most of the victims got the illness at very young age and died. Listen to their voice, “Don’t forget [...]
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