{"id":262417,"date":"2026-05-28T01:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/28\/samsung-labor-deal-settled-can-south-korea-save-its-tech-edge\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:47:37","slug":"samsung-labor-deal-settled-can-south-korea-save-its-tech-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/politics\/2026\/05\/28\/samsung-labor-deal-settled-can-south-korea-save-its-tech-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Labor Deal Settled: Can South Korea Save Its Tech Edge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"photo-layout\" image photo_659929 max-width-960 float-center data-idxno=\"659929\" data-type=\"photo\"><img alt=\"src=contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2024-0038\/image-420a2534-2a0d-451c-a2bf-cc0d99b4160c.png\"><figcaption>\n   \u25b2 Chu Mi-ae (center), the Democratic Party&#8217;s candidate for governor of Gyeonggi Province, and mayoral candidates from Suwon, Yongin, Hwaseong, Seongnam, Anseong, Pyeongtaek, Osan and Icheon announced joint semiconductor pledges on the afternoon of the 19th at the Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, under the theme \u201cCompleting the K\u2011Semiconductor Ecosystem.\u201d \/ Kim Cheol-bin, Incheon Ilbo reporter narodo@incheonilbo.com<br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the 27th, Chu Mi-ae\u2019s campaign committee for the Democratic Party welcomed the final settlement in Samsung Electronics\u2019 labor talks and urged an accelerated push to establish a K\u2011semiconductor cluster in southern Gyeonggi Province.<\/p>\n<p>At a briefing, Park Sang-hyuk, the campaign\u2019s chief spokesperson, said, \u201cToday, Samsung Electronics\u2019 labor-management talks have reached a final settlement. We, along with citizens who waited anxiously, welcome the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He praised both labor and management for choosing dialogue and coexistence over confrontation during the negotiations and thanked the Lee Jae-myung administration for putting full effort into mediating the talks to fulfill its responsibility to the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>Park emphasized that the settlement goes beyond a routine labor dispute and is directly tied to the competitiveness of South Korea\u2019s semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the negotiation process and its outcome leave many tasks ahead. \u201cSamsung\u2019s gains belong not only to semiconductor workers but also to workers at supplier firms, to shareholders who placed their trust in the company, and to the broader society that has supported it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he expects deeper, substantive discussions to follow on Samsung\u2019s social responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Park reiterated that preserving South Korea\u2019s \u201csuper-gap\u201d lead in the global economic race must remain central to the nation\u2019s industrial strategy.<\/p>\n<p>He called for forceful, rapid action to build the southern Gyeonggi K\u2011semiconductor cluster, saying the country must marshal its full resources\u2014from stable labor-management relations and bold R&amp;D investment to developing top talent and expanding power, water and transportation infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Park Sang-hyuk said, \u201cChu Mi-ae will work with the Lee Jae-myung administration to further strengthen South Korea\u2019s semiconductor competitiveness and to build a sustainable semiconductor ecosystem in which labor and industry thrive together. She will do her utmost to make Gyeonggi the nation\u2019s semiconductor hub and a driver of future growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\/ Park Da-ye, Incheon Ilbo reporter pdyes@incheonilbo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party&#8217;s candidate for Gyeonggi Province welcomed the Samsung labor agreement and emphasized accelerating the K-semiconductor cluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/05\/CP-2024-0038\/thumb-9dde2823-b458-4ab6-86fe-b65a43e00fca.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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