SEOUL -- Workers at troubled Kumho Tire have approved the company's acquisition by Chinese peer Qingdao Doublestar after a standoff that went down to the wire, saving South Korea's No. 2 tire maker from a likely bankruptcy.
The Kumho labor union voted Friday night in favor of the 646.3 billion won ($607 million) deal, which would give Doublestar a 45% stake in the company. Kumho's creditors had set a deadline of Friday for labor to accept the plan, after which the deal would have been scrapped.
