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313:; four years after her diagnosis, Yoon-mi dies in the backseat of Sang-gu's cab. After learning that a number of Yoon-mi's coworkers at the factory are also suffering unlikely diseases, Sang-gu is convinced that Jinsung is responsible for his late daughter's disease and death. He makes a visit to a labor attorney to file a claim against the most powerful conglomerate in the country. Sang-gu and his family, along with their attorney and other families of leukemia patients, are soon shaken up as the company uses different methods of appeasement and pressure to keep the families from uniting, among them offering money to keep the issue from becoming public. Jinsung workers also spy on the families of the plaintiffs, stalk them and threaten them, all for the sake of their company, which they genuinely believe to be in the right. People become reluctant to be a witness for trial, either because of their loyalty to the company or for the well being of their families. But Sang-gu is determined to continue in his quest for truth and justice. 426:, had found no correlation between the workplace environment and employee illness. According to the Supporters for the Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS), however, the rare form of leukemia that affected Hwang Yu-mi is found in only 4.2 in every 100,000 South Koreans aged between 20 and 29. Hwang Sang-ki said that Samsung offered him a β‚©10 billion settlement in exchange for dropping the compensation claim, but he rejected the offer. "After I turned down an offer of one million dollars, they basically asked me to name my price," he said. "But there was no way I could take their money, not when I knew that other families were suffering." 1246: 1423: 469:
wrongdoing and the condition to drop all further claims. This prompted SHARPS to ask the public for help by publishing a letter urging Samsung to implement the mediation committee's recommendations. The letter was signed by more than 10,000 people. On October 7, 2015, a sit-in was started in front of Samsung's headquarters in Seoul. Since then Samsung has not resumed talks with SHARPS or the other victim's families.
292:) – a well known Samsung advertising slogan – while the on-screen electronics company is called Jinsung. Director Kim Tae-yun further clarified that there had been no request for a title change from Samsung, and that he voluntarily did it because he "wanted the audiences to concentrate more on the drama itself, not the company." 29: 468:
The company did not follow all recommendations of the mediation committee, however, and instead installed a "Compensation Committee" on its own. Shortly afterward it was reported that Samsung had paid out some victims outside of the scheme with so-called 'hush' money, which includes no admitting of
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However, with the effect of the movie, Samsung admitted on May 14, 2014, for the allegations that made former employees fallen ill after working for the company, promising compensation to those with leukemia and other ailments. Samsung had agreed to set up an independent mediation committee to look
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There was little media attention on the case until 2011, when the Seoul administrative court overturned the KCOMWEL verdict, ruling that toxic chemicals at Samsung plants "had caused, or at least expedited" cases of cancer in two workers, Hwang Yu-mi included. The ruling was the first case in which
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employees have filed compensation claims with the KCOMWEL for job-related illness; three were successful, 15 are still under review by the agency and 21 were rejected. Most of the semiconductor industry workers who turned to SHARPS were in their 20s and 30s when they fell ill. As of February 2014,
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Shortly after graduating from high school, Yoon-mi begins looking for a job in order to earn money to help support her struggling family; she especially wants to pay for her younger brother Yoon-seok's tuition when he goes to college in the next few years. Her father Sang-gu, a taxi driver in
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Hwang filed his lawsuit with The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL), a government agency that compensates workers and levies companies to fund the payouts. KCOMWEL found Samsung innocent, stating that there was no evidence to suggest that Hwang Yu-mi died from a
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in October 2013, then received a theatrical release on February 6, 2014. Despite good reviews from BIFF and strong advance ticket sales, it was only shown on 100 screens nationwide – a third of the expected number.
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About 200 workers have made similar allegations against Samsung and other memory chipmakers, according to SHARPS. Lee Jong-ran, an industrial health rights activist and lawyer, said that from 2008 to 2013, 39
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Samsung has not officially commented on the movie, but Kim Sun-beom, spokesman of Samsung's device solutions department, posted an online rebuttal on the company's official
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Samsung's official stance was that there was no causal relationship between Hwang's employment with them and her sickness. Company sources pointed out that the incidence of
411:, one of the world's largest technology companies and a major contributor to the South Korean economy. His daughter Hwang Yu-mi was diagnosed with an advanced stage of 775: 461:, saying that the movie was an "unfair depiction" and "oversimplification" of the situation, and raised concerns that the company's image was being demonized. 465:
at the cases of workers who have fallen ill and agree compensation. Samsung also promised an evaluation of working conditions in its factories.
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Actress Park Hee-Jung actually shaved her head on-screen for the role. This was to accurately depict the effects of chemotherapy.
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two years after working at a Samsung semiconductor factory; she died in 2007 at age 23, four years after her initial hiring.
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The film is a fictionalized account of the real-life story of Hwang Sang-ki, a taxi driver based in
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It is the first film in Korean cinematic history to have been both invested and produced solely by
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factory. But just two years later he learns that his daughter has been diagnosed with
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To avoid possible legal action, the film's producers altered its original title from
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based on the true story about the legal battle between Korean conglomerate
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Samsung says sorry and promises compensation to sick workers
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Index


Park Chul-min
Kim Gyu-ri
Yoon Yoo-sun
Busan International Film Festival
Korean
RR
drama film
Samsung
leukemia
crowdfunding
Korean
RR
Gangwon Province
semiconductor
leukemia
Park Chul-min
Kim Gyu-ri
Yoon Yoo-sun
Park Hee-jung
Kim Young-jae
Lee Geung-young
Jung Jin-young
Park Hyuk-kwon
Jang So-yeon
Sokcho
Gangwon Province
Samsung
leukemia
hematological cancers

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