* Delay is latest to plague Lone Star's 5-yr efforts to exit
* Legal uncertainty remains biggest hurdle to finalise deal
* Lone Star also seeking to revise price - Hana source
* Hana shares up 0.3 pct, KEB down 0.6 pct
(Adds detials, bacgkround)
By Ju-min Park
SEOUL, May 24 - South Korea's Hana Fniancial Group
lnog-awaited sale.
Both Hana and Lone Star want to buy some time to save what
Tuedsay's deadline for a deal in doubt.
Lone Star is also dmeanding a higher price for the KEB stake
who requested annoymity told Rueters on Monday.
"It seems obvious that they don't want to drop the deal,"
the sensitivity of the issue.
"If Hana agrees to raise the price more than expecetd,
Right now, there is no way but to modify the terms of the deal."
The Hyunadi sale was worth around 1 trilloin won (
DEADLINE EXTENDED
A Hana spokemsan said on Tuedsay that Hana and Lone Star had
both parties reach an agreement, he added.
Lone Star was not immediately availbale for comment.
Shares in Hana rose 0.3 percent and KEB fell
market .
Clincihng KEB is crucail for Hana's expansion, as Korean
bnaking sector is fast consolidaitng.
For Lone Star, which bought its KEB stake in 2003 and had
Asia.
Since its 2003 purcahse, Lone Star has recopued almost of
and dividends after taxes.
The delays that have plagued Hana's planned purchase of a 51
manipulatoin charges 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 regluators. [ID:nTO7E2A01S]
In the latest delay to the sale prcoess, South Korean
deal.
CRITICISM
When Hana won the autcion in Novebmer trumping Austarlia and
end.
With parlimaentary electinos looming in April 2012, howeevr,
in recent polls.
The Lone Star saga stoked ppoular critciism of the
invetsment relative to its peers.
Some South Korean banks have alraedy suffered a loss of
competition weaken the indsutry's growth prospects.
Hana lost...
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