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Creditors close to deal with SKorea's Hynix: minister
AFP - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
SEOUL (AFP) - - Creditors of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second largest memory chipmaker, are close to agreement on injecting funds to support the troubled company, a minister said Monday.
"I believe the main creditor banks have agreed on putting in more liquidity," Knowledge Economy Minister Lee Youn-Ho told reporters.
Hynix is suffering from falling demand and declining chip prices amid the global economic downturn.
On Sunday it unveiled a series of cost-cutting steps such as early retirement, unpaid leave and lower pay aimed at saving 100 billion won (68.7 million dollars) a year.
The firm has asked creditors to provide between 500 billion and one trillion won, the main creditor Korea Exchange Bank said Monday.
"Creditors are positively considering financial assistance, but nothing, including the size and timing of the assistance, has been decided yet," said a bank spokesman.
Lee has said the government would not consider active state support for Hynix because this would breach World Trade Organisation guidelines.
"The government at present is not considering any direct support," he reiterated Monday.
"The position of the Korean government... is that the fate of companies will be determined in the market by the market."
Hynix was one of numerous big companies bailed out by the government after the 1997-98 East Asian economic crisis and is still under the control of creditors.
In the third quarter of this year its net loss rose sharply to 1.65 trillion won, the fourth straight quarterly deficit.
Hynix shut down two older domestic production lines this year and has also extended a payment deadline for a partner company's investment.
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