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Record Date for Proposed Dividends

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KS005930, KS005935, SMSN, SMSD) ("SEC") announced today

that its Management Committee at their meeting on June 9, 2016 decided the record date for the

proposed dividends to be presented to the Board of Directors (the "Board") for a vote at the

Board's next meeting scheduled for the end of July, 2016. If the Board approves the proposal to pay

and declare dividends, it will determine the amount and the payout ratio at the scheduled meeting.

The corresponding book closure period for the dividends, during which period the shareholders'

registry of SEC will be closed and no transfer of shares in SEC will be affected, is presented

below. 

Dividend payments, if declared by the Board, will be made to only those shareholders who are the

shareholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2016.

¨ Details

- Book Closure Period: July 1~July 14, 2016

- Record Date: June 30, 2016

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