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amongst its Workers and Their Children!
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Over the past few years, Samsung Corporation has faced a number of troubling allegations about the health of some of its workers in the company's home base, South Korea.
Former workers and their families, along with labor activists, have said that conditions at the company's semiconductor factories have led to higher occurrences of illnesses such as leukemia and other cancers among former semiconductor workers.
In a new series, The Huffington Post Korea and its media partner, The Hankyoreh, report that long-term exposure to toxic chemicals may not only have lasting effects for some former Samsung workers, but also for their children.
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That reaction is similar to the first reports, in 2008, of "semiconductor industrial diseases" -- when former Samsung workers started attributing leukemia and other diseases they had developed to conditions in semiconductor factory work. While Samsung initially denied a link between the incidents and conditions at its plants, Korean courts ruled in several cases that former Samsung semiconductor workers with leukemia were victims of industrial accidents. The ubiquitous technology giant finally issued an apology in May 2014 to workers and their families, promising appropriate compensation to workers' families
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“A picture of my son’s first birthday? There is no such thing. I was too busy begging the doctors to save my child, bedridden in the hospital.”
Ms. Kim Hee-eun is 5'9''. The 42-year-old woman was born and raised on an island in Wando, in Korea’s South Jeolla Province, and lived there until she graduated high school. She was a healthy child and rarely went through any kind of sickness growing up. Now, she cried while she spoke about her 15-year-old son Gunoo, who was born in 1999. She spoke about the painful years Gunoo would face in the future, as the suffering he had endured for 15 years would continue for the rest of his life. Gunoo has struggled with perpetual diarrhea for his entire life. Whenever, wherever or with whomever he eats, the food passes through Gunoo’s digestive system to become loose feces. Gunoo does not like using public restrooms, especially the ones at school, because he is afraid of traces that his condition leaves behind. He always has to go to the restroom at home before school in the morning and before he goes to an after school learning center in the evening.
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Currently, Hee-eun is suffering from thyroid cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, meningitis and epithelial cancer. She undergoes thyroid cancer treatment every 6 months, meningitis treatment every 3 months and rheumatoid arthritis treatment every 2 months. She has to go back to the Seoul National University Hospital every month, although the same hospital told her and Gunoo not to come back after 13 long years. “I want to sleep at least one night without any pain,” Hee-un said, expressing her most fervent wish. When she requested her past 10-year medical record to file workplace injury claims, the shocked clerk asked Hee-eun where she could possibly have worked.
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A lot more here
TLDR: Samsung semi-conductor factory workers (who make the parts that are also in iPhones, Samsung Phones, etc) are getting cancer at extremely high rates, and their children are being born with severe irregularities.
 I use to be a Samsung stan too
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I'm shocked 
how could Samsung be so careless as to indirectly give CANCER to their workers? Many tech companies might employ cheap Chinese labor but they never give their workers cancer 
