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SK Telecom gets OK to buy chip firm

28 December 2011

Regulator approves SK Telecom’s purchase of stake in semiconductor maker Hynix

Read more: SKT SK Telecom Hynix semiconductor chip Korea

The Fair Trade Commission of South Korea has approved SK Telecom’s proposal to buy a 21% stake in chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor. Following the completion of the transaction, Hynix shareholders will be able to end a two-year attempt to dispose the shares they got through a government-led bailout in 2001.
In November 2011, South Korean operator SK Telecom decided to pay $3 billion to buy the shares that bring the operator into computer-memory chips market, valued at $39 billion annually. GTB

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