HYBE’s chairman, Bang Si Hyuk, has agreed to receive 1 KRW (.00076 USD) as his salary for 2024. It stated through its ‘2024 Internal Director Compensation Plan’ on March 8, that:

“The company had determined the base salary as 1 KRW for the chairman to implement the ‘Pay for Performance’ compensation philosophy to strengthen the responsibility of the managing executive.”

Bang Si Hyuk will also receive a performance bonus of 980 million KRW (~743,469 USD) as per the short-term incentive system. This amount was determined by the compensation committee, taking into account the management performance and evaluation criteria for 2023.

Last year, Chairman Bang received a total compensation of 357 million KRW (~270,840 USD), comprising a salary of 50 million KRW (~37,931 USD), a bonus of 300 million KRW (~227,597 USD), and other employment income of 7 million KRW (~5,311 USD).

HYBE’s CEO, Park Ji Won, received a compensation of 1.52 billion KRW (~1.15 million USD) last year. This year, his compensation has been decided as 2 billion KRW (~1.52 million USD).