Fired Samsung worker ends year-long tower protest after receiving apology

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Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, recently apologised for the firm's previous 'no labour union' policy. FMTNews Samsung SamsungElectronics

Ex-Samsung employee Kim Yong-hee is seen atop a 25m traffic camera tower in Seoul on Friday.

He stayed there for 354 days, relying on supporters to bring him bento meals and supplies of clothes and phone batteries, which he hoisted up from the ground by rope. Kim’s decision to end his protest came weeks after Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, currently on trial over corruption charges, apologised for the firm’s previous “no labour union” policy that lasted for decades until last year.

“Samsung kept him in the air for a year, thus demonstrating to any other would-be labour activists at its factories that, in case they might wish a fight, the fight is going to be cruel.”

 

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