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Max Kim

Max Kim

‘We were just robots’: workers slaves to merciless AI at ‘Korean Amazon’

Overseen by unforgiving algorithms and hired and fired by faceless apps, employees at e-commerce giant Coupang, South Korea’s answer to Amazon, are literally being worked to death.

The family-run conglomerates that power South Korea’s economy have long been above listening to individual shareholders – or ants. But as the scandals mount, and take down presidents, those ants are fighting back.

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