3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom

The chipmakers have begun sharing those record profits with their staff on a scale the country has never seen. At Samsung, a memory-chip worker on a base salary of 80m won ($51,300) could receive bonuses close to 600m won ($384,900) this year, most of it in stock. That is roughly 17 times the averag...

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