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Chip industry activists call for South Korea to recognise cancer cases

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SK hynix, along with fellow South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics, has emerged as a key player in the booming artificial intelligence industry, with its cutting-edge memory chips crucial to powering the sector's rapid growth. Establishing direct links between semiconductor work and certain cancers can be contentious, with research inconclusive. But fabrication and assembly plant workers can face exposure to solvents, acids, toxic metals an…

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South Korean activists fighting for job safety in the country's booming semiconductor industry urged the government on Wednesday to recognize the cancer diagnoses of three former SK Hynix employees as work-related illnesses.

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Chae-rin = A press conference was held on the 7th urging the recognition of occupational cancer among semiconductor workers as an industrial accident.

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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In South Korea, associations are calling for cancers affecting three former employees of SK hynix to be recognized as occupational diseases.... Read more Three cancers of former employees of SK hynix revive the health battle of memory fleas appeared first on Le Singulier.

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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