Samsung DX Employees Express Outrage Over Compensation Disparity, Directly Criticize Roh Tae-moon

Samsung Electronics' decision to provide 22.65 shares of company stock as a performance bonus to employees in its Device Experience (DX) division, which handles home appliances and mobile businesses, has sparked internal conflict due to the relatively small compensation.

Criticism toward management is intensifying among some employees within the DX division.

Some DX division employees have expressed their dissatisfaction by sending emails directly to the CEO, raising issues regarding the decision to grant 22.65 shares of stock.

Previously, Samsung Electronics reached a tentative agreement on 2026 wages with the Samsung Group Super-Enterprise Labor Union, which is centered around the Device Solutions (DS) division responsible for the semiconductor business.

Under this agreement, employees in the memory business unit of the DS division can expect performance bonuses of up to 600 million won, while employees in the DX division and the CSS business team were separately categorized to receive company stock worth 6 million won.

Even within the DS division, a compensation gap remains, as loss-making business units such as System LSI and Foundry were allocated relatively lower performance bonuses.

As frustration grows, some DX division employees pointed out in emails sent to President Roh Tae-moon and other executives, "The president receives billions or tens of billions of won in compensation, yet you are offering employees a mere 22.65 shares," adding, "Who would trust and follow a leader who demands crisis and sacrifice only from the employees?"

Previously, on June 23, President Roh met with representatives from the National Samsung Electronics Union and the Samsung Electronics Labor Union Donghaeng, the second and third labor unions of Samsung Electronics, and stated, "As the head of the DX division, I am taking the current situation very seriously. I am fully aware of the sentiments and atmosphere among employees, and I empathize with the sense of relative deprivation and difficulties that members are feeling."

Some DX employees are pushing to donate the 22.65 shares of stock to the Donghaeng labor union, which is primarily composed of DX division employees, to be used as activity funds.

The donated funds are planned to be used for the Donghaeng union's legal responses and supply costs related to wage negotiations.

Reported by Kim Minjeong | Video by Choi Gang-san | Graphics by Yook Do-hyun | Produced by SBS Digital News
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