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Hanwha General Insurance will increase its stake in its digital non-life insurer Carrot by 5%.

SK Telecom has decided not to join Carrot’s rights offering slated for Friday, industry sources said Wednesday. Forfeited shares will be acquired by Hanwha General Insurance, the largest shareholder of Carrot.

Carrot decided to carry out a 100 billion won ($88 million) rights offering last month to secure working capital. Existing shareholders will acquire shares worth 90 billion won, with T Map Mobility, a subsidiary of SK Telecom, supposed to buy shares worth 10 billion won.

Hanwha General Insurance initially planned to acquire shares worth 46.4 billion won in the rights offering, but SK Telecom’s absence has made the insurance company’s investment to 61.6 billion won. After the rights offering, Hanwha General Insurance’s stake in Carrot will increase from 51.6% to 56.6%.

STIC Investments with a 15% stake in the digital non-life insurer, Altos Ventures with 9.9%, and Hyundai Motor with 3.5% will participate in the rights offering in proportion to their shareholdings.

SK Telecom, which is currently the second largest shareholder of Carrot, will own a 10% stake in the online non-life insurer after the rights offering.

SK Telecom plans to hand its 10% stake in Carrot over to T Map Mobility in the future. Earlier this year, the boards of directors of the two companies approved T Map Mobility to purchase a 20% stake in Carrot from its parent company for 20 billion won. (Reporting by Eun-sol Lee)