How much corporate tax did Samsung Electronics and SK hynix pay in the first half of 2026?

Samsung Electronics paid 3.99 trillion won and SK hynix paid 7.22 trillion won, for a combined 11.2 trillion won. The data came from the Repository of Korea’s Corporate Filings, operated by the Financial Supervisory Service.

Why did Samsung Electronics and SK hynix pay so much corporate tax this year?

The payments surged amid a semiconductor supercycle. The article says the two companies posted much higher first-half operating profits than a year earlier, which lifted expectations for still larger tax payments.

How do Samsung Electronics and SK hynix’s 2026 profit forecasts compare with their first-half results?

Market watchers expect Samsung Electronics to post 385 trillion won in annual operating profit in 2026 and SK hynix to post 266 trillion won. Those forecasts follow first-half operating profits of 146.7 trillion won and 98.2 trillion won, respectively.

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Summary

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix paid a combined 11.2 trillion won in corporate taxes in the first half of this year amid the semiconductor supercycle. Samsung paid 3.99 trillion won and SK hynix paid 7.22 trillion won. Their combined tax payment rose 167 percent from a year earlier and was the second-highest first-half total on record. Market watchers expect the payments to rise further as both companies reported sharply higher operating profits.

Key Facts

Samsung Electronics paid 3.99 trillion won in corporate taxes in the first half of this year, while SK hynix paid 7.22 trillion won.
Their combined first-half corporate tax payment of 11.2 trillion won was the second-highest on record for the period.
The combined amount jumped 167 percent from a year earlier.
Samsung Electronics posted first-half operating profit of 146.7 trillion won, compared with 11.4 trillion won a year earlier.
SK hynix posted first-half operating profit of 98.2 trillion won, compared with 16.7 trillion won a year earlier.

By Yonhap

Published Aug 30, 2026 1:03 pm KST

Corporate logos of Samsung Electronics Co., left, and SK hynix Inc. / Yonhap

Corporate taxes paid by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. totaled a combined 11.2 trillion won ($8.1 billion) in the first half of this year amid the recent semiconductor supercycle, financial data showed Sunday.

Samsung Electronics paid 3.99 trillion won in corporate taxes and SK hynix paid 7.22 trillion won in the first half, according to data from the Repository of Korea's Corporate Filings, operated by the Financial Supervisory Service.

The two companies' combined corporate taxes jumped 167 percent from a year earlier, marking the second-highest first-half total on record.

The figure followed the record 15.63 trillion won they paid in the first half of 2019, based on their record-high profits during a memory chip boom in 2018.

Generally, companies pay corporate taxes in March for the previous fiscal year that ends in December and in August for their interim first-half profits.

Market watchers expect the two companies' corporate tax payments to increase further as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix posted first-half operating profits of 146.7 trillion won and 98.2 trillion won, respectively, compared with 11.4 trillion won and 16.7 trillion won the previous year.

In addition, the two companies are forecast to post annual operating profits of 385 trillion won and 266 trillion won, respectively, in 2026.

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