An appellate panel of Seoul’s administrative court has ruled a former Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. worker’s multiple sclerosis was caused by a combination of overwork and chemical exposure at the company’s LCD unit: a first-of-its-kind….
A factory that made batteries for the explosion-prone Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones caught fire last week. Pictures of black smoke coming out of the plant were circulating on Weibo (the Chinese version of Twitter)….
The South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix offers to invest 3 trillion won ($2,62 billion) in the chipmaking operations of the Japanese manufacturer Toshiba. SK Hynix, the fifth-largest player in the global market for NAND flash…
Samsung’s announcement that defective batteries caused its Note 7 phones to explode has led a U.S. consumer-safety regulator to call voluntary industry standards into question. Samsung’s announcement that defective batteries caused its Note 7 phones…
Samsung and its heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong are under pressure due to a major corruption scandal in South Korea, which involves the country’s president. Lee Jae-yong, the current vice chairman of Samsung, is accused of bribing…
The U.S. non-profit organisation Green America is inviting people to sign their open letter to Samsung’s management, to tell them to stop poisoning workers and to protect their workers’ rights. Green America cites cases of…
The Washington Post has recently published the third instalment of its series on the human toll of the fast-growing demand for lithium-ion batteries. Having already published articles about cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of…
After the recent publication of an article that detailed the violations of workers’ rights in Samsung factories in Malaysia, Samsung has announced new Migrant Worker Guidelines. In the article from the Guardian, Samsung announced that…
The fiasco of exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones and Samsung’s subsequent decision to halt production of the newly introduced Note is directly affecting workers in Vietnam. At Samsung Electronics’ plant in Bac Ninh, which employs…
20 metric tons of cobalt, more than one ton of tungsten, one ton of silver, 100 kilograms of gold, and 20 to 60 kilograms of palladium: this collection of resources is inside the 4.3 million…