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Jae-yong Lee, vice chairman, said that he bowed his head three times today (6th), especially to those who were hurt by union problems. Regarding this, the labor community said that concrete action is more important than words, and civil society groups insisted that the apology should not be used as a means to lower the sentence in trial.

This was organized by reporter Sunghoon Lee.

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Kim Yong-hee, who was fired from Samsung for the establishment of the union and is in a high altitude on the 332th day, went on an indefinite fasting.

The apologize to the people who do not apologize directly to the victim is deception.

[Lim Mi-ri / Samsung's dismissal worker, CEO of the Joint Task Force of Highland and Agriculture: First apologizes for Samsung's repression of unions in the past decades before declaring abandonment of union-free management… .] In a

comment immediately after Vice Chairman Lee's apology, the KCTU stated that "Samsung needs one action more than a hundred words."

In particular, Samsung General Union raised doubts about the authenticity of the declaration of the end of the union-free management.

[Kim Sung-Hwan / Samsung General Union Chairperson: I concluded that apology is deception. In terms of showing evidence that Samsung's union-free management is broken by using the fishing union… ]

Some civil society groups who watched Jae-yong Lee's reading of the apology statement questioned authenticity, saying it was just an apology.

[Yijiwoo / Solidarity for Participatory Democracy economic and financial center staff: it has suddenly questionable whether becomes extremely inappropriate and attitude to apologize for calling you mention reigns succession of children amid that jeojilreoseo fire, shortcut on trial -

in particular the apology now He emphasized that it should not be used as a means of commuting for the ongoing NDA trial.

On the other hand, in the business circles such as the Korea Management Association and the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, it was difficult to say that it was difficult to stand for individual companies.

(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Seo Jin-ho, video editing: Kim Sun-tak)

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