SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The wage gap between executives and ordinary workers has continued to increase dramatically in Korea, as the disparity in salaries at the top 30 listed companies reached up to 142 times last year. According to FNGuide, a financial information provider, Samsung Electronics topped the wage disparity among the 30 largest [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of Samsung Electronics‘ mobile division grabbed the title of the highest-paid executive in South Korea last year thanks to a hefty bonus for the division’s robust performance in 2013. Shin Jong-kyun topped the list of corporate executives’ annual salaries by getting paid 14.57 billion won (US$13.13 million) [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Of all registered executives of Korean publicly listed firms, Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung Electronics’ IT & mobile division president, was ranked as the highest paid executive for the first nine months of the year at 12 billion won (US$10.9 million). Chung Mong-koo, Hyundai Motor Group chairman, won the top position among [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will load Joyn Blackbird service, dubbed as a “mobile carrier version of KakaoTalk,” in its smartphones for the first time in the industry. On August 4, Samsung announced that it became the first smartphone handset manufacturer by securing the service into its Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5. Joyn Blackbird [...]