Samsung El.gdr Regulatory News (SMSN)

The following amendments have been made to the ' 2016 3Q pre-earnings guidance' announcement

released on Oct 7, 2016 at 07:00 under RNS No. 9722L.

All other details remain unchanged.

The full amended text is shown below.

On October 12, 2016, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KS005930, KS005935, SMSN, SMSD) ("SEC") announced

its revised earnings guidance for the third quarter of 2016.

After recent incidents and in consideration of our consumers' safety, SEC has stopped sales, exchanges and

production of the Galaxy Note 7. Below is a revised pre-earnings guidance which reflects the impact of this

decision on the third quarter earnings, in accordance with accounting standards. We are providing the revised

guidance based on disclosure regulations of securities market.

Ÿ Consolidated Sales: Approximately 47 trillion Korean won

Ÿ Consolidated Operating Profit: Approximately 5.2 trillion Korean won

The above figures are estimates of consolidated earnings based on K-IFRS. Please note that Korean disclosure

regulations do not allow earnings estimates to be provided as a range. Therefore, in compliance with such

disclosure regulations, the above figures represent the median of the earnings estimate range, provided below.

Ÿ Sales: 46 ~ 48 trillion Korean won

Ÿ Operating Profit: 5.1 ~ 5.3 trillion Korean won

※ The above information is provided for the convenience of our investors before the external audit on the financial results of our headquarters, subsidiaries and affiliates is completed. The statements contained herein include statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views, expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. In addition to statements which are forward-looking by reason of context, the words "may", "will", "should", "expects", "plans", "intends", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "predicts", "potential", or "continue" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those in such statements due to, without limitation, (i) general economic conditions, including in particular economic conditions in Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd's ("SECL") core businesses and core markets, (ii) performance of financial markets, including emerging markets, and including market volatility, liquidity and credit events, (iii) currency exchange rates, (iv) changing levels of competition, (v) changes in laws and regulations, (vi) general competitive factors, in each case on a local, regional, national and/or global basis. The matters discussed herein may also be affected by risks and uncertainties described from time to time in SECL's filings with the Korea Stock Exchange (KRX), FSS (Korea), and Samsung Website. Further information about risks and uncertainties affecting Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is included throughout our most recent annual and interim reports, as well as our most recent earnings release, which are available on http://www.samsung.com/ir. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results, performance or achievements of SECL may vary materially from those described in the relevant forward-looking statement, and all such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to be materially different from those expressed herein. The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.