[So. Korea]…lobbying groups in Asia have come together to launch the "Samsung Accountability Campaign…” The campaign is demanding that Samsung take responsibility for the hazards of chip manufacturing and compensates workers…The campaign has been timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the death of Yu-mi Hwang, a Samsung semiconductor factory worker…No scientific case…is made either to prove or disprove a link between worker ill-health at Samsung and the chemicals in use there. Chemicals used in…electronics factories have been blamed for worker ill-health in the past, with lawsuits brought against IBM in 2003. Concerns were also raised about cancer clusters at a National Semiconductor wafer fab in…Scotland. In…1986, the Boccardo law firm in…California, won an undisclosed settlement in a suit that had alleged Fairchild Semiconductor had polluted soil and, potentially, groundwater…