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For about a decade Samsung has been involved in a dispute with many workers from its chip and display factories and their families as they claimed that prolonged exposure to radiation and dangerous chemicals at Samsung factories had made them sick with illnesses like lymphoma and leukemia. Samsung made a significant shift in its stance on this issue by making a public apology to those workers and families in May 2014 and now it has announced that it’s setting up a multi-million dollar fund to compensate them.

The company said today that it’s setting up a 100 billion won – roughly $86 million – fund to compensate the cancer-stricken workers and their families. Money from this fund will also be used to increase efforts for the prevention of such diseases at its chip and display factories.

Samsung says that the fund is going to make payments to contractors, workers and their families who became sick while working at the plants, and it’s going to pay for development of experts, research and other methods to improve worker safety.

An activist group in South Korea that represents many of these workers and their families says that close to 200 workers fell ill after working at a Samsung plant with 70 of them having passed away since then.

Samsung’s decision to set up this fund comes after negotiations between the company, workers and outside experts where one of the major questions was about the company’s responsibility for the workers.

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