{"id":136557,"date":"2026-08-30T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/136557\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:56:10","slug":"samsung-electronics-sk-hynixs-corporate-tax-tops-8-1-bil-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/136557\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics, SK hynix&#8217;s corporate tax tops $8.1 bil. in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d7d7fa4f-7105-43c4-a657-7af2d94caa8c.png\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1318 \/ 700; width: 100%\" alt=\"Corporate logos of Samsung Electronics Co., left, and SK hynix Inc. \/ Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corporate logos of Samsung Electronics Co., left, and SK hynix Inc. \/ Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Corporate taxes paid by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. totaled a combined 11.2 trillion won ($8.1 billion) in the first half of this year amid the recent semiconductor supercycle, financial data showed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Samsung Electronics paid 3.99 trillion won in corporate taxes and SK hynix paid 7.22 trillion won in the first half, according to data from the Repository of Korea&#8217;s Corporate Filings, operated by the Financial Supervisory Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The two companies&#8217; combined corporate taxes jumped 167 percent from a year earlier, marking the second-highest first-half total on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The figure followed the record 15.63 trillion won they paid in the first half of 2019, based on their record-high profits during a memory chip boom in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Generally, companies pay corporate taxes in March for the previous fiscal year that ends in December and in August for their interim first-half profits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Market watchers expect the two companies&#8217; corporate tax payments to increase further as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix posted first-half operating profits of 146.7 trillion won and 98.2 trillion won, respectively, compared with 11.4 trillion won and 16.7 trillion won the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In addition, the two companies are forecast to post annual operating profits of 385 trillion won and 266 trillion won, respectively, in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corporate logos of Samsung Electronics Co., left, and SK hynix Inc. \/ Yonhap Corporate taxes paid by Samsung&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[241,240],"class_list":["post-136557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk","tag-sk","tag-sk-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136557","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=136557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}