{"id":124548,"date":"2026-08-19T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/124548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:22:09","slug":"are-samsung-electronics-and-sk-hynix-bonuses-embezzlement-police-launch-probe-into-complaint-against-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/124548\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Are Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix bonuses embezzlement?&#8221; Police launch probe into complaint against executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/news-p.v1.20260709.a121b8e9e38245dc9d3b15d7f40727ef_P1.png\" orgwidth=\"700\" orgheight=\"467\" alt=\"Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix [Reuters = Yonhap News]\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix [Reuters = Yonhap News]      <\/p>\n<p refid=\"2\">Police have launched a full-scale investigation after a dispute erupted over the &#8216;operating profit-linked bonuses&#8217; that Samsung Electronics and SK hynix plan to pay their employees, with accusations that the payments amount to embezzlement.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"3\">On the morning of the 19th, the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Investigation Unit of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency summoned Min Kyung-kwon, head of the Korea Shareholder Action Headquarters, for questioning as the complainant.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"4\">Earlier, the group filed a complaint with the National Office of Investigation on the 22nd of last month against Samsung Electronics CEOs Jun Young-hyun and Roh Tae-moon, as well as SK hynix CEO Noh-Jung Kwak, on charges of violating the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes, or embezzlement.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"5\">Before the questioning, Min held a press conference and reiterated the basis for the complaint, saying, &#8220;Paying a certain percentage of operating profit as bonuses without a resolution by the general meeting of shareholders is a transfer of company assets without a legal obligation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p refid=\"6\">He argued that &#8220;bonuses tied to a company&#8217;s profit and loss are not wages for labor, but rather a post hoc distribution of management performance,&#8221; adding that &#8220;the disposal of profits must be approved by a resolution at the general meeting of shareholders, within the limit of distributable profits under the Commercial Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p refid=\"7\">The group says the special management performance bonuses agreed in May by Samsung Electronics&#8217; labor and management, equal to 10.5% of operating profit, and SK hynix&#8217;s bonuses linked to 10% of operating profit are invalid from the outset.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"8\">It also demanded that Samsung Electronics return more than 170 trillion won to shareholders and that SK hynix return more than 100 trillion won.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"9\">A police official said, &#8220;We plan to comprehensively review whether there were any legal violations related to the bonus payments alleged by the complainant,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We will decide whether to summon the accused after reviewing the need following the complainant&#8217;s questioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\">\nThis article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix [Reuters = Yonhap News] Police have launched a full-scale investigation after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20695,64380,613,127,276,275],"class_list":["post-124548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-ceo","tag-general-meeting-of-shareholders","tag-operating-profit","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-sk-hynix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}