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Article: Hankook Tire chief, labor minister accused of murder in workers' deaths.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- March 20, 2008
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SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- A group of ex-employees of South Korea's largest tiremaker Wednesday lodged a complaint with the prosecution, holding the company's management and government officials responsible for the deaths of a dozen employees.Over the past two years, 13 employees of Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. -- mostly in their 20s to 40s -- died of cancer, cerebral palsy or cardiovascular diseases, the workers claimed."For decades, the Hankook Tire management was aware that its workers were suffering from various kinds of diseases with unidentified causes, and it was tracking down the fact that solvents and toxic chemicals that they were exposed to may have caused ...