Samsung Compliance Committee Completes First Meeting with Civic Groups... What Are the Next Steps?

Discussion on Various Proposals Including the Samsung Dismissed Workers Issue and Received Reports

Kim Ji-hyung, Chairman of the Samsung Compliance Committee, is presiding over the '1st Meeting of the Samsung Compliance Committee' held on the 5th at Samsung Life Seocho Tower in Seocho-gu, Seoul. The Samsung Compliance Committee is an independent external organization established to eradicate illegal activities by executives and employees, including CEOs of major Samsung affiliates, and to strengthen compliance management. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] The Samsung Compliance Committee, after its first meeting with civic groups, plans to discuss various proposals including issues related to Samsung dismissed workers.

According to the Compliance Committee on the 28th, the committee intends to discuss the demands made by the Samsung Victims Joint Struggle group at the 4th meeting scheduled for the 2nd of next month.

Previously, Chairman Kim Ji-hyung, Secretary General Shim Hee-jung, and Media Relations Team Leader Park Jun-young held a meeting with representatives of the Samsung Victims Joint Struggle group the day before. This was the first meeting with a Samsung-related civic group since the Compliance Committee was launched.

The Samsung Victims Joint Struggle is an organization formed by groups such as the Samsung Dismissed Workers High-altitude Protest Committee, the Cancer Patients’ Group Responding to Insurance Companies, and the Gwacheon Evictees Countermeasure Committee. Representatives attending the meeting from the Samsung Victims Joint Struggle included CEO Ha Sung-ae, Labor Committee Chair Jeong Byung-wook of the Lawyers for a Democratic Society, and Research Professor Lim Mi-ri from Korea University’s Institute of Korean History.

During the meeting, they particularly explained issues related to Samsung dismissed worker Kim Yong-hee, who is conducting a high-altitude protest on a steel tower near Gangnam Station in Seoul, close to the Samsung Life Seocho Tower, and requested that these issues be resolved.

Chairman Kim responded that these issues would be discussed at the next Compliance Committee meeting. According to a Compliance Committee official, “Chairman Kim expressed sympathy during the meeting, saying he felt heartbroken about the situation.”

The Compliance Committee also plans to discuss reports and complaints received through its website and external organizations. The committee launched its website on the 23rd of this month and has been accepting reports of violations of compliance obligations by management. Lawyers at the Compliance Committee secretariat review the reports and evidence before submitting them to the committee members. A Compliance Committee official stated, “Since the website launch, dozens of reports have been received daily.”

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