Samsung is to compensate chip factory workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure.
The company apologised to victims and their families seven years after the death of a 23-year-old employee from leukaemia.
However Samsung said the apology did not concede a link between the chemicals used in its chip factories and cancer and other diseases.
Samsung vice chairman Kwon Oh-hyun said: "We feel regret that a solution for this delicate matter has not been found in a timely manner, and we would like to use this opportunity to express our sincerest apology to the affected people."
Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee The move came a month after opposition politician Sim Sang-jeung urged the government and Samsung to come up with measures to help victims and prevent workplace diseases.
Sim said in April that 114 workers sickened by chemicals since the 1990s were former Samsung semiconductor employees.
For several years, Samsung has resisted calls to apologise, and former workers have struggled to raise awareness about the cancer cases.
Last year, the story of Hwang Yu-mi, who died aged 23 from leukaemia in 2007 and her father's legal battles, was made into a film.
Funded by donations, the movie brought more attention to the possible link between conditions at Samsung's older factories and cancers in workers.
Analysts say the cancer controversy is an issue that Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's chairman, wants to resolve before passing leadership to his own son.
Lee, 72, is in hospital in a stable condition after suffering a heart attack on Saturday.
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