The report does not specify the amount paid to individual board members, but Kwon Oh-hyun, former head of the company's chip division, is likely to have received more than half of the total. Kwon, who earlier this month was repositioned as chairman of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, had received 13.98 billion won in total payment up to end of second quarter this year, more than double of 5.05 billion won of the next highest-paid board members.

Non-registered board members were given 59 million won on average per person. Those who also have inspection authorities were paid 65 million won on average.

Samsung Electronics is allowed to pay up to 55 billion won a year to the nine registered people on the board of directors. (Yonhap)