Article: HSBC aiming to buy South Korea bank.

By Jake Lloyd-Smith, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 12--Banking giant HSBC was today reported to be in talks to acquire South Korea's Korea First Bank.

Kim Kyo-shik, secretary-general of Korea's Public Fund Oversight Committee which oversees the sale of government shareholdings, was quoted as saying he was aware London and Hong Kong-listed HSBC had been in negotiations over the business.

One source put a price tag of between three trillion won (1.46 billion pounds) and 3.5 trillion won on the possible transaction.

Korea First Bank, the country's eighth-largest lender, is 49 percent-owned by ...

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