About us
(Seoul=Yonhap Infomax) Su Jin Yoo—Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea's largest company by market value, will reinstate its dual-CEO management structure.
The move aims to simultaneously strengthen competitiveness across its two core businesses—semiconductors and mobile/home appliances—amid an increasingly uncertain business environment.
On the 21st, Samsung Electronics announced its 2026 annual executive appointments, naming Roh Tae-moon, acting head of the DX (Device eXperience) Division and President, as a new Representative Director (President).
Although President Roh was not promoted to Vice Chairman, he will shed the "acting" title and serve as a co-CEO. He will lead the company alongside Jun Young-hyun, head of the DS (Device Solutions) Division. President Roh will also continue to oversee the MX (Mobile eXperience) Business Division.
With this, Samsung Electronics returns to a dual-CEO system, with the heads of the DS and DX divisions serving as co-representative directors.
The company plans to complete the appointment of President Roh as Representative Director at the regular shareholders' meeting scheduled no later than March next year. There is also a possibility of convening an extraordinary shareholders' meeting before then.
Historically, Samsung Electronics has maintained this "two-top" structure to bolster the competitiveness of its two main business pillars.
However, following the sudden death of Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee (then head of the DX Division) in March, the company shifted to a single-CEO system under Jun Young-hyun.
Since then, President Roh has served as acting head of the DX Division while concurrently leading the MX Business Division.
sjyoo@yna.co.kr
(End)
Copyright © Yonhap Infomax Unauthorized reproduction and redistribution prohibited.