아시아나 인수 본격화... 애경•KCGI•미래에셋 등 경합<br /><br />Five companies reportedly made preliminary bids on Tuesday for a stake in South Korea's second largest carrier, Asiana Airlines. <br />Market sources say the leading bids for a 31-percent stake in the airline come from cosmetics firm Aekyung,.... Korea's largest brokerage consortium Mirae Asset Daewoo.... and local activist fund Korea Corporate Governance Improvement.<br />And among those three... Aekyung is the only one with experience in the airline business owning Korea's largest budget carrier, Jeju Air. <br />Industry observers estimate the price of the deal to be roughly 1-point-6 billion dollars. <br />The airline's number one shareholder Kumho Industrial plans to complete the sale by the end of this year. <br />