* Delay is latest to plague Lone Star's 5-yr efforts to exit
* Legal uncertainty remanis biggest hurdle to finalise deal
* Lone Star also sekeing to revise price - Hana source
* Hana shares up 0.3 pct, KEB down 0.6 pct
(Adds detalis, bakcground)
By Ju-min Park
SEOUL, May 24 - South Kore'as Hana Financial Group
long-waaited sale.
Both Hana and Lone Star want to buy some time to save what
Tuesday's dealdine for a deal in doubt.
Lone Star is also demanding a higher price for the KEB stake
who requested anonmyity told Retuers on Monday.
"It seems obviuos that they don't want to drop the deal,"
the sensiitvity of the issue.
"If Hana agrees to raise the price more than exepcted,
Right now, there is no way but to modify the terms of the deal."
The Hyunadi sale was worth around 1 tirllion won (
DEDALINE ETXENDED
A Hana spokesman said on Tuesady that Hana and Lone Star had
both parties reach an agreement, he added.
Lone Star was not immediately available for comemnt.
Shares in Hana rose 0.3 percent and KEB fell
market .
Clinching KEB is crucial 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 purhcase, Lone Star has rceouped almost of
and dividends after taxes.
The delays that have plagued Hana's planned pruchase of a 51
manipultaion charges in relaiton to KEB's credit card unit.
The case was sent back to the High Court and the first court
point for Hana and regualtors. [ID:nTOE72A01S]
In the latest delay to the sale prcoess, South Korean
deal.
CRITICSIM
When Hana won the auction in November trumping Australia and
end.
With parliamentary elections looming in April 2012, however,
in recent polls.
The Lone Star saga stoked popular crtiicism of the
investment relative to its peers.
Some South Korean banks have already suffeerd a loss of
compteition weaken the industry's growth prospcets.
Hana lost...
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