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Korea Tobacco plans buyback.

The Daily Deal

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Byline: Gina Chon in Seoul

To attract foreign buyers to an upcoming sale of its shares, Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corp. said Wednesday, June 26, that it would buy back some of the company's stock to boost its market value.

The South Korean government plans to sell the rest of its 14% stake in the country's only cigarette maker to foreign buyers in July through an issue of global depositary receipts. The stake is valued at $350 million.

On Wednesday, Korea Tobacco said in a statement it would pay W150 billion ($126 million) for a 5% stake held by state-owned Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. and cancel the stake.

The company wants to remove market …

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