SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Seoul Central District Court will rule by July 1 on U.S. fund Elliott's injunction request to block a Samsung C&T Corp (>> Samsung C&T) shareholder vote on Cheil Industries Inc's (>> Cheil Industries Inc) takeover offer.

Elliott, a Samsung C&T shareholder, filed the injunction to block the $8 billion (£5 billion) all-stock offer from Cheil Industries. The fund says the offer is unfair to C&T shareholders.

(Reporting by Se Young Lee and Sohee Kim; Editing by Miral Fahmy)

Stocks treated in this article : KCC Corp, Samsung C&T, Cheil Industries Inc