South Korea

4 briefs

conflict 2026-05-13

41,000 Samsung Workers Are About to Strike Over a Bonus Gap That SK Hynix Created

South Korea's semiconductor giant lost $66 billion in market value in hours before Seoul intervened -- and the actual dispute is not about wages, it is about who owns the upside of a chip boom.

conflict 2026-05-02

The Workers Who Could Break the AI Boom

Samsung's largest-ever labor action threatens to disrupt HBM memory production at the exact moment AI chip demand has outpaced every forecast.

power 2026-04-24

Samsung's Workers Want Their Cut of the AI Boom

Thirty thousand chip workers are threatening an 18-day strike over profit-sharing. Samsung's Q1 operating profit rose 755%. The math is not complicated. The power dynamic is.

conflict 2026-04-14

Samsung's Record Quarter Is Funding Its Own Undoing

The union is demanding $30 billion in bonuses. The company says that wipes out its R&D budget. An 18-day strike in May could hand Micron and China the memory market.