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Kang and others acted to obstruct the formation and activities
of an independent trade union at affiliate Samsung Everland, an
amusement park operator and part of Samsung C&T <028260.KS>,
media reports said.
Among 12 people indicted with Kang, one former executive
director received a 10-month jail term, while others received
suspended jail terms or in one case, a fine, Yonhap news agency
reported.
In 2016, South Korea's Supreme Court ruled the dismissal of the
employee involved in efforts to form a union at Samsung Everland
was a harsh sanction, and the company reinstated him.
Lawyers for Kang and Samsung C&T were not immediately available
for comment. Samsung Electronics declined to comment.
The spokesman for Seoul Central District Court could not
immediately confirm the ruling.
South Korea has powerful auto unions but the country's overall
union participation rate is around 10%, the second-lowest among
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
countries.
At Samsung Group, the rate is even lower.
Kang worked in the conglomerate's elite strategy office until it
was disbanded in 2017 in the wake of a corruption scandal.
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee is embroiled in
separate trials in the bribery scandal involving former South
Korean president Park Geun-hye.
Friday's case follows a Monday ruling that jailed three Samsung
Elec executives convicted of hiding evidence in an alleged
accounting fraud probe.
(Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; editing by Jason Neely)
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