{"id":984001,"date":"2026-01-08T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984001"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:03:11","slug":"samsung-electronics-to-buy-back-1-73-bln-shares-for-employee-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/samsung-electronics-to-buy-back-1-73-bln-shares-for-employee-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics to buy back $1.73 bln shares for employee pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL &#8211; Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it \u200cwould \u200cacquire 2.5 trillion \u200cwon ($1.73 billion) worth of its own shares for employee and executive compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The shares will be \u200cacquired \u200dthrough \u200dpurchases on the stock market between \u200cJanuary 8 and April 7, Samsung said in a regulatory \u200dfiling.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is part \u200dof a \u2060performance-linked compensation \u2060scheme introduced in October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL &#8211; Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it \u200cwould \u200cacquire 2.5 trillion \u200cwon ($1.73 billion) worth of its own shares for employee and executive compensation. The shares will be \u200cacquired \u200dthrough \u200dpurchases on the stock market between \u200cJanuary 8 and April 7, Samsung said in a regulatory \u200dfiling. The acquisition is part \u200dof a \u2060performance-linked compensation \u2060scheme introduced in October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}