All posts tagged "settlement"

  • (Yonhap)
    Asiana to pay $55 million settlement in fuel price-fixing case

    (Yonhap) — Asiana Airlines said Friday that it has agreed to pay a $55 million settlement in a fuel surcharge price-fixing case, ending a decade-long anti-trust class action lawsuit against South Korea’s second-largest carrier. Asiana said in...

    • Posted March 25, 2016
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  • In this Oct. 23, 2015 photo, Hwang Sang-gi, a founding member of advocacy group Banolim, holds a picture of his daughter Yu-mi during an interview denouncing Samsung’s response in its latest negotiations with sick workers outside Samsung buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Yu-mi’s death from leukemia in 2007 galvanized concern about conditions at Samsung factories and South Korea’s semiconductor industry in general. Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony and bad publicity over whether its semiconductor factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional offer of financial assistance. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Samsung money for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • (Korea Times file)
    BCD begins to pay out $3 mil in settlement to 600 employees

    About 600 current and former employees of Korean restaurant chain BCD Tofu House will receive a combined $3 million in settlements after filing a lawsuit against the company for unpaid wages and overtime rates, the law firm...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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    Clara, Ilgwang chairman reach settlement

    By Jhoo Dong-chan Actress Clara Lee has dropped a civil case against Ilgwang Group Chairman Lee Kyu-tae. According to the Seoul Central District Court, Monday, Clara recently submitted a withdrawal application, in which she sought to annul...

    • Posted September 21, 2015
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  • In this July 6, 2013, aerial file photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. On Tuesday, March 3, 2015, more than 70 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed in San Francisco two years ago have reached a settlement in their lawsuits against the airline. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
    Asiana agrees to compensate 72 passengers from San Francisco crash

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Asiana Airlines Co., South Korea’s No. 2 carrier, said Wednesday it has agreed on a settlement with some of the passengers on its 2013 flight that crash-landed in San Francisco, leaving three people dead....

    • Posted March 4, 2015
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