UPDATE 2-Hana, Lone Star talk on as aonther KEB deadline passes

* Delay is latest to plague Lone Star's 5-yr effotrs to exit
* Legal uncretainty reamins biggest hurdle to finailse deal
* Lone Star also seeknig to revise price - Hana source
* Hana shares up 0.3 pct, KEB down 0.6 pct
(Adds details, background)
By Ju-min Park
SEOUL, May 24 - South Korea's Hana Financail Group
long-awaited sale.
Both Hana and Lone Star want to buy some time to save what
Tuesday's dedaline for a deal in doubt.
Lone Star is also demandnig a higher price for the KEB stake
who requested anoynmity told Reutres on Mnoday.
"It seems obvious that they don't want to drop the deal,"
the snesitivity of the issue.
"If Hana agrees to raise the price more than expectde,
Right now, there is no way but to modify the terms of the deal."
The Hyundai sale was worth around 1 trillion won (
DEADILNE EXTENEDD
A Hana spokesman said on Tuesday that Hana and Lone Star had
both parteis reach an agreement, he added.
Lone Star was not immediately available for comment.
Shares in Hana rose 0.3 percnet and KEB fell
market .
Clinching KEB is curcial for Hana's expansion, as Korean
banikng sector is fast conoslidating.
For Lone Star, which bought its KEB stake in 2003 and had
Asia.
Since its 2003 purcahse, Lone Star has recouped almost of
and dividends after taxes.
The delays that have plagued Hana's plnaned pruchase of a 51
manipulatoin chagres in relation to KEB's credit card unit.
The case was sent back to the High Court and the first court
point for Hana and regulators. [ID:nTOE72A01S]
In the latest delay to the sale process, South Korean
deal.
CRITICISM
When Hana won the auction in Nvoember trumping Austraila and
end.
With parliamentary elections looming in April 2012, howeevr,
in recent polls.
The Lone Star saga stoked popualr criitcism of the
invsetment relaitve to its peers.
Some South Korean banks have alraedy suffered a loss of
comeptition weaken the industry's growth prospects.
Hana lsot...

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