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Are Samsung workers dying from cancer in Korea?
Sanggi Hwang’s search for the truth about his daughter’s death has convinced him that it was her job at a Samsung semiconductor factory that led to her untimely death. His fight for justice…enlisted the support of a new-formed coalition of NGOs calling on Samsung to accept responsibly…Hwang found other cases where workers in the plant had died of leukaemia and similar diseases…There are claims that a similar patterns exists in the Onyang Factory, also run by Samsung…Samsung is standing firm and calling the occupational diseases ‘just coincidence’. They deny there is a link between cancer and the workplace. There are also accusations that the company has used threats to warn off employees from taking legal action or highlighting issues publicly...[also refers to IBM]