Strike Fatigue in Seoul: The Unspoken Consequences of Labor Disputes South Korea's prime minister is weighing emergency arbitration to prevent a potentially crippling strike at Samsung Electronics.
But the issue goes beyond labor disputes, with the world's largest memory chipmaker accounting for nearly a quarter of the country's exports and a significant chunk of its stock market value.
The threat of a strike has been looming over Seoul like a storm cloud, casting a long shadow over the economy.