Samsung agrees to compensate victims of work-related diseases a decade after first complaints

Samsung has apologized to all sufferers of work-related diseases who were employed on its chip and LCD production lines, and has agreed to a compensation package with a maximum value of 150 million Korean won (around $130,000) per illness, reports Yonhap News Agency.”Beloved colleagues and families have suffered for a long time, but Samsung Electronics failed to take care of the matter earlier,” said Samsung Electronics Chief Executive Kim Ki-nam. “Samsung Electronics also did