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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (26984)	12/7/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Brian, could you or Will give an opinion on whether a debt to equity swap is sound financial practice? All I know is that it will dilute shares. The debt/equity ratio is still quite large, even after the swap. The chaebols today also agreed to reduce their debt-to-equity ratios from levels exceeding 500-700% and 1,000% in the case of Anam Semiconductor to no more than 200% by the end of 1999. Earlier the chaebols had sought to relax the 200% level, claiming they might be unable to reach that threshold by the turn of the century. Gottfried