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SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilding group, has announced a share swap deal worth 2.1 trillion won ($1.98 billion) to take over second-ranked Daewoo and create a global heavyweight controlling over 20 percent of the market. The move comes as the worldwide shipbuilding sector recovers from a global economic downturn that led to massive losses, widespread job cuts and, in 2017, the $2.6 billion bailout of South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd.

State-funded Korea Development Bank (KDB) owns 55.7 percent of Daewoo, and has said it intends to sell the stake and consolidate the country’s three biggest shipbuilders - which includes Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd jockey cufflinks - into two, The combination of two of the giant shipbuilders would ease competition and excess capacity, which have depressed ship prices, KDB Chairman Lee Dong-gull said at a news conference, The deal will “raise the fundamental competitiveness of Daewoo, at a time when the threat from latecomers in China and Singapore is growing,” Lee said on Thursday..

Hyundai and Daewoo hold a combined market share of 21.2 percent, followed by Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding with a 6.6 percent, showed data from Clarksons Research. Lee said it will take several months to gain approval from antitrust regulators from related countries. He said the size of the resulting entity’s market share would not be detrimental to the interests of customers. Daewoo will also receive liquidity support of 2.5 trillion won ($2.25 billion) from KDB and Hyundai, Hyundai said in a stock exchange filing.

KDB also jockey cufflinks said it would approach Samsung Heavy to gauge any interest in taking over Daewoo, A Samsung Heavy spokesman said it has received a proposal from KDB and that it needs to review the matter, Daewoo shares rose as much as 22 percent on Thursday, before ending up 2.5 percent, Those of Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co Ltd and unit Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd fell about 4 percent on concern about a high purchase price, analysts said, Meanwhile, Samsung Heavy shares ended up 2.5 percent, as investor concerns of it bidding for Daewoo eased..

“Consolidation is good for the industry, but not for the company which buys the stake,” said analyst Um Kyung-a at Shinyoung Securities, citing overlapping businesses between Hyundai and Daewoo. The shipbuilding industry accounts for 7 percent of both exports and employment in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. Hyundai Heavy’s workers’ union said it will delay a vote on last year’s wage deal in protest of a purchase it says could threaten job security. It said it would be “angered” if the shipbuilder plowed money into buying another big firm having released workers after reporting losses and shrinking orders.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Korea Development Bank, the biggest shareholder of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co Ltd, on Thursday said it has signed a conditional deal with Hyundai Heavy Industries Group to sell Daewoo shares, The state-funded bank said in a statement it signed a jockey cufflinks memorandum of understanding with Hyundai that includes liquidity support of 2.5 trillion won ($2.25 billion) for Daewoo, KDB also said it would approach local shipbuilding peer Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd to gauge any interest in taking over Daewoo..

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean gaming firm Netmarble said it will form a consortium to bid for a controlling stake in Nexon’s holding company, the latest to show interest in a deal that could be worth about $9 billion after Kakao. Both Netmarble Corp and Kakao Corp are backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd and, according to sources, the Chinese tech giant too is considering a bid. Kim Jung-ju, founder of Nexon, the country’s biggest gaming company, plans to sell a 98.64 percent stake in NXC Corp, held by himself and related parties including his wife, the Korea Economic Daily newspaper has reported.

Selling the stake to overseas companies would weaken the competitiveness of the industry in the country, said Netmarble, which controls over a quarter of South Korea’s mobile gaming market, Tencent has a 17.66 percent stake in Netmarble, “We believe the tangible and intangible values of Nexon are jockey cufflinks important assets to Korea,” Netmarble said in a statement, adding its consortium will mainly include domestic firms, Netmarble also said it had been considering buying Nexon for two months and decided to participate in the bid a month ago..

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