South Korea's labour minister Kim Young-hoon has urged major tech conglomerates like Samsung to share excess AI-boom profits with suppliers, subcontractors, and workers. He argues that concentrating windfall gains at the top of Korea's chaebol-dominated economy will widen inequality and ultimately drag on growth. The proposal is currently a soft appeal — a forum rather than a mandate — but has already drawn criticism from the conservative opposition as dangerous state intervention in free markets. The debate mirrors a broader global question about whether the extraordinary gains from the AI chip cycle should be distributed more widely.
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