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Hanwha plans to acquire Daewoo Shipbuilding, which makes warships, and create a powerful comprehensive defense company.

However, there are many hurdles to overcome, including the huge debt of Daewoo Shipbuilding, the controversy over the sale at a low price, and the problem of manpower restructuring.



Next is reporter Jeong Hye-jin.



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Hanwha's goal is to strengthen the defense industry and eco-friendly energy business.



Hanwha, which produced the K9 self-propelled howitzer, a representative export weapon, and the engine of the Korean projectile, the Nuri, sees the defense industry as the future growth engine.



The plan is to take over Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, which has strengths in the manufacturing of submarines and warships, and establish itself as a comprehensive defense company, so-called 'Korean Lockheed Martin'.



In addition to solar and wind power, the company plans to expand its eco-friendly energy business with LNG carriers.



The authorities judge that Hanwha Group does not have a shipbuilding company, so there is almost no monopoly problem that has been holding back the merger.

[Kang Seok-hoon/Chairman of Korea Development Bank: Since Hanwha does not have a portfolio related to shipbuilding



, there will be relatively few business combination issues (I understand)]



It is known that the opposition to the acquisition of Hanwha is not significant as there are fewer.



[Kim Young-hoon/Professor, Department of Shipbuilding and Marine System Engineering, Kyungnam University: Korea has very high competitiveness in high value-added ships, LNG carriers, and extra-large container ships.

From a business perspective, if the cash flow of procurement of business expenses and these things become a little smoother, the company will be stabilized to some extent.]



However, the serious business situation of DSME is a big challenge for Hanwha to solve.



Of the total assets of DSME of 12 trillion won, liabilities are 10 trillion won, which accounts for 676.5% of the total.



Controversy over the sale is also on the rise.



Since 2015, Korea Development Bank has invested 4.2 trillion won, but Hanwha's acquisition funds are less than half of the 2 trillion won.



In particular, it is only one-third of the 6.3 trillion won that Hanwha proposed in its first acquisition negotiation in 2008.



(Video coverage: Kim Won-bae, Video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon)