Samsung Life completes accelerated placement

Shareholders take advantage of positive sentiment towards South Korean stocks to divest stake in the insurance firm.

Four of Samsung Life Insurance's shareholders raised 311.9 billion won ($300 million) via an accelerated secondary share offering late Tuesday in Hong Kong. Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Fine Chemicals, Samsung SDS and Cheil Worldwide sold 3.3 million secondary shares, or 1.64% of the existing share capital.

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