Another Promise

Another Promise Hangul RRDdo Hanaui Yaksok is a 2014 South Korean film based on the true story about the legal battle between Korean conglomerate Samsung and its employees who contracted leukemia.

Shortly after graduating from high school, Yoonmi begins looking for a job in order to earn money to help support her struggling family she especially wants to pay for her younger brother Yoonseoks tuition when he goes to college in the next few years. Her father Sanggu, a taxi driver in Gangwon Province, is proud and overjoyed when Yoonmi gets hired as a factory worker at the Jinsung semiconductor factory. But just two years later he learns that his daughter has been diagnosed with leukemia four years after her diagnosis, Yoonmi dies in the backseat of Sanggus cab. After learning that a number of Yoonmis coworkers at the factory are also suffering unlikely diseases, Sanggu is convinced that Jinsung is responsible for his late daughters disease and death. He makes a visit to a labor attorney to file a claim against the most powerful conglomerate in the country. Sanggu and his family, along with their attorney and other families of leukemia patients, are soon shaken up as the company uses different methods of appeasement and pressure to keep the families from uniting, among them offering money to keep the issue from becoming public. Jinsung workers also spy on the families of the plaintiffs, stalk them and threaten them, all for the sake of their company, which they genuinely believe to be in the right. People become reluctant to be a witness for trial, either because of their loyalty to the company or for the well being of their families. But Sanggu is determined to continue in his quest for truth and justice.The film is a fictionalized account of the reallife story of Hwang Sangki, a taxi driver based in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, and his fouryear legal battle against Samsung, one of the worlds largest technology companies and a major contributor to the South Korean economy. His daughter Hwang Yumi was diagnosed with an advanced stage of leukemia two years after working at a Samsung semiconductor factory she died in 2007 at age 23, four years after her initial hiri

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