Samsung Electronics announced that it will take into consideration a future separation

Samsung Electronics announced on Tuesday that it will increase dividends and takes into consideration a possible separation of the company.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics faces its biggest structural change. Samsung Electronics has 47 years of existence and is now facing possibly one of the most difficult periods in its life.

Samsung Electronic is the world's top maker of smartphones, televisions and memory chips. When making the announcement, the company didin't actually gave many detail on a possible restructuring , disappointing investors and keeping their shares on the same route.

Samsung said that it hired advisers for a six-month-long review, and added : "The review does not indicate the management or the board's intention one way or another" .

Samsung Electronic's decision came after Elliott Management, U.S. activist, who called in October for the firm to separate in two: an operating part and a holding vehicle for ownership purposes. The main idea was to increase the returns of shareholder.

Worth 224 billion dollars, the shares on Samsung went higher by 0.06% on Tuesday. 

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