Samsung Electronics: Revamping Executive Compensation to Include Stocks - Benchmarking TSMC

• Samsung Electronics announced that it will revamp its executive compensation system to include treasury shares as incentives. Samsung has benchmarked TSMC in terms of paying treasury shares to its employees.

• Samsung Electronics' decision to revamp its executive compensation system to include treasury shares as incentives aligns the interests of the shareholders along with the company's management.

• Now that Samsung Electronics has incorporated stock based incentive system, it is likely that other Korean companies that could follow suit.