A Seoul appeals court has upheld a ruling by a lower court that South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is to blame for the leukemia death of one of its former employees at a chip-making facility, a court official said Sunday.
In 2013, the Seoul Administrative Court recognized as an industrial accident the death of Kim Kyong-mi, who died of acute leukemia in 2009 at the age of 29 after working at Samsung's semiconductor production lines in Giheung, just of Seoul, between 1999 and 2004.