South Korea tackled difficult economic reforms following the crisis, including restructuring some chaebols, increasing labor market flexibility, and opening up to more foreign investment and imports.

The combined turnover of the five biggest chaebols is equal to ... Take Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s most valuable company. The world’s largest maker of memory chips trades at slightly ...

Many chaebols are run by their founding families ... the parent company of South Korea’s largest tire maker. It failed to secure a controlling stake. In this case, MBK said it was brought ...