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[세계비즈=주형연 기자] Last year, Samsung Electronics’ minority shareholders exceeded 2 million, becoming the largest ever, and a regular shareholders’ meeting will be held next month. This year, the shareholders’ meeting of Samsung Electronics is scheduled to be held online.
According to the industry on the 12th, Samsung Electronics is holding the ’52th Samsung Electronics Regular Shareholders’ Meeting’ held in the middle of next month in parallel online, and preparatory work is in progress for online live broadcasting.
Earlier, the Samsung Compliance Committee recommended that shareholders be held online at the same time, taking into account the reinforcement of shareholder-friendly management and the recent coronavirus infection (Corona 19) situation, and Samsung Electronics accepted this and decided to introduce it from this year.
Last year, SKT broadcasted the stockholders’ meeting live online in consideration of the Corona 19 situation, and Samsung Electronics is deciding how to operate by reviewing such precedents.
Samsung Electronics plans to maintain the electronic voting system introduced at the shareholders’ meeting last year. Accordingly, this year, shareholders of Samsung Electronics can vote on the agenda of the shareholders’ meeting without attending the site and view the progress of the shareholders’ meeting online. It is reported that the on-site shareholders’ meeting will be held at the Suwon Convention Center as in last year.
Until now, Samsung Electronics has held a shareholders’ meeting at the Seocho office building in Seocho-gu, Seoul, but after the par value split in 2018, the number of minority shareholders surged, and for the first time last year, it held a shareholders’ meeting at the Suwon Convention Center outside the company building.
The company announced that it will prepare for this year’s shareholders’ meeting while complying with the Corona 19 situation and the social distancing prevention guidelines.
According to the Korea Securities Depository, the number of shareholders of Samsung Electronics was 2.15 million,4081 as of the end of last year, the largest ever.
Of these, individual minority shareholders accounted for 214,5317, accounting for 99.59% of the total. The number of shares they own is 387,192,2801, which is 6.48% of the total.
The number of shareholders of Samsung Electronics stood at 144,000 as of the settlement of accounts in 2017, but in 2018, with a 50:1 stock split, it jumped to 761,000 at the end of the year. As of the end of the year, 2019 was 568,000.
The so-called “Donghak ant movement” broke out in the domestic stock market crash due to Corona 19 last year, attracting individual investors to Samsung Electronics’ stocks, and as a result, the number of Samsung Electronics shareholders nearly quadrupled within a year.
Next month’s general shareholders’ meeting of Samsung Electronics approves payment of settlement dividends worth KRW 1.3 trillion in accordance with the decision of a special dividend of KRW 1578 per share, and decides on consecutive appointments and new appointments for internal and external directors scheduled to expire.
It is expected that Ki-nam Kim, Vice Chairman of Device Solutions (DS) Division, whose term expires in March of this year, Hyun-Seok Kim, President of Consumer Electronics (CE) Division, and Dong-jin Ko, President of IT and Mobile (IM) Division, will continue to resign as executive directors. .
Among the outside directors, the appointment of Seoul National University Professor Park Byeong-guk, Kim Jong-hoon, and Ewha Womans University professor Kim Jong-hoon, who are scheduled to expire next month, will be decided.
The company’s official position on Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and was sentenced to reincarceration last month, is also drawing attention. The company is not making an official position on the case of reincarceration of the total because it is a trial by vice chairman Lee Jae-yong.