Thats because they dont have money! Well, that is the reason they have the ICO fund raiser. So that they can raise the money for various purposes including the marketing stages. Where as bounty is considered as part of marketing and they always allocate X % of that fund to be given to them. This way they secure rest of the money and dont get into loss even if the bounty hunters dump their token. If they were suppose to pay you in fiat then they will have to give that money from their pockets. This is because they can not exchange their raised ETH or BTC to fiat as it will break the chain of funds as soon as they convert it to fiat. They will be questioned by the banks, regulatory bodies and it would eventually will become very complicated. May be thats why they wont go that way.

I still think this news is a fake news, because I haven't found any connection to this news.
If this is true, it is good news for the market as a whole, because samsung is a large company in Korea, so it is helpful for marketing propaganda.