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chaebol

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chae·bol  (jbl)
n. pl. chaebol
A conglomerate of businesses, usually owned by a single family, especially in Korea.
[Korean chaebl : chae, wealth (from Middle Chinese tshaj) + bl, powerful family (from Middle Chinese buat).]
chaebol [ˈtʃeɪbɒl]
n
(Business / Commerce) a large, usually family-owned, business group in South Korea
[from Korean, literally: money clan]


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South Korea's biggest and most successful chaebol is now renowned globally for its stylish mobile phones and flat-screen televisions.
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An effort to bridge policy and corporate governance, the volume is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on both the chaebol and on government policy following the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
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Compounding the difficulty, the Korean government has acted recently in ways reminiscent of the chaebol heyday of the military dictatorships of Park Chung-hee and his successor, Chun Doo-hwan.
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