[Editorial writer’s blunt statement] “Samsung’s excess profits are not just the responsibility of employees and shareholders… We need to create a social investment fund.”

Lee Sang-heon, Chief Economist of the International Labor Organization Lee Sang-heon, Chief Economist of the International Labor Organization (ILO), is being interviewed by the Kyunghyang Shinmun at a studio in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 24th. Reporter Han Soo-bin I wanted to study literature and wanted to major in Korean literature, but my parents opposed me, so I ended up going to the economics department. He studied economics at Seoul National University undergraduate and graduate school, and received a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, England. To the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2000...