South Korea: A deformed developed country today! A puppet state dominated by the chaebols
Speaking of South Korea, many people will think of another name for it in some Western countries, that is, "Four Asian Tigers", the reason why there is such a name is because the development of South Korea has shocked the world and made many Western countries look at it with astonishment!
In the 1960s, South Korea's PER capita GDP increased by 160 times from $100 to $16,000 in the early 2000s, which is enough to be called a legend in economic development.
Today, South Korea's gross domestic product is ranked in the top 15 in the world, to know that South Korea's land area and population are relatively small in the world, affected by this restriction, many similar countries in the development of the situation will often have slow growth or stagnation, and South Korea is not bound by this, but broke this limitation.
In fact, to say that South Korea can have such achievements, mainly related to the four major chaebol families in South Korea today, these four families can be said to support half of South Korea's economic development, these four families are the Samsung Group created by Lee Byung-cheol, Hyundai Motor created by Choi Jong-kin, SK created by Gu Renhui and LG created by Zheng Zhouyong, these four major company groups are well-known enterprises in the whole world, and they are often not seen in our daily lives, which shows how influential these four chaebol families have.
Among the four chaebol families, Samsung created by Lee Byung-cheol is at the top of the list, and the Samsung Group we know may be more in the field of communications and electronics, but in fact, this group involves many industries, such as finance, chemicals, and semiconductors and other high-tech fields, so many industrial patterns have also allowed Samsung to develop rapidly, becoming the most powerful and influential chaebol group in South Korea.
Li Bingzhe was born in a relatively wealthy peasant family in his early years, as the youngest son of the family, he will always be doted on by his parents, so Li Bingzhe has not learned from a young age, and he has no interest in learning, fortunately, he has a great yearning for education in the capital city later, which makes Li Bingzhe have the heart to study, but even so, he has not been able to learn anything famous, but he has changed from the original scum to a middle school, and he is still full of confusion about the future.
And even after he started a family, he still had nothing to do, idle, every day is to live a life of eating, drinking and having fun, relying on the economic resources owned by his father to live, but this life can not last so long, so later, he woke up one night and decided that he wanted to break out of his own world, so with the help of his father, Li Bingzhe took the money from the sale of land and opened a grain processing factory with friends.
However, the day was not as expected, and then Japan launched an invasion of South Korea, and the factory he founded was forced to close down, but such a tragic encounter did not crush Li Bingzhe, but after that, with the market experience accumulated in the past and the analysis of the domestic economic situation at that time, Li Bingzhe created a new chamber of commerce here, which was called the Samsung Chamber of Commerce, which was the predecessor of the later Samsung Group.
Because at this time the entire world's electronics industry did not have much development, so at that time the Samsung Chamber of Commerce was mainly responsible for the import and export of agricultural products of some related trade services, although later encountered the threat of war, almost closed the door, but fortunately, Lee Byung-cheol's father's old friend Syngman Rhee was the president of South Korea at that time, so Lee Byung-cheol got great support and help in terms of policy, since then, Samsung Chamber of Commerce has also changed its name to Samsung Logistics Company, in just a few years, the market value of Samsung Group in South Korea ranked in the top ten, Total assets have also increased by nearly 20 times, and these achievements have also laid the foundation for the future development of Samsung Group in different fields.
Judging from the above-mentioned Samsung chaebol family data, it has three major characteristics, first of all, its own comprehensive economic strength is very strong, followed by a high monopoly in the Korean domestic market, the most obvious feature is that this chaebol family has a strong family nature, basically people within the family to control the company and subordinate sub-brands.
These characteristics also allow the Samsung chaebol family to divide nearly one-fifth of the profits of the Korean domestic market, while at the same time, the Samsung chaebol family and other three major chaebol families account for 80% of the South Korean economic profits, it can be said that it is worthy of the name to dominate the economic development of South Korea, if South Korea does not have these four chaebol families is undoubtedly an economic development body that has been emptied, although these chaebol groups have indeed created huge wealth for South Korea, but on the contrary, they have also kidnapped the development of the Korean economy.
Because of the high monopoly on the domestic market, so some other small and medium-sized enterprises are difficult to have room for development, basically most of the domestic market is occupied by these chaebol groups, these small enterprises simply do not have a foothold and development space, there is also a rapid economic development at the same time, these chaebol groups also monopolize most of the domestic economic resources, which leads to south Korea's class solidification is very serious, the gap between rich and poor is also getting bigger, and then it will cause more social contradictions to erupt.
At the same time, the development of these chaebol families also affects domestic employment, many people lack employment opportunities, there is no suitable employment direction, which also caused the increase in South Korea's unemployment rate, of course, this is only from the economic point of view, these chaebol families also have a great impact on the political system of South Korea, such as the aforementioned Syngman Rhee's support for the Samsung Group, which allows these chaebol groups to control the trend of Korean politics to a certain extent, at a deeper level, It has influenced the development of two fields of Korean politics and economy.
It is rare for a country to be manipulated by some political groups or economic entities in depth, and although South Korea has become one of the few developed countries in a short period of time by virtue of this way, this interest is only temporary, because the control of these chaebol families is too strong, and it is bound to affect the development pattern of South Korea in the future, which is not conducive to the development of the entire country in the long run, and it is also an irresponsible behavior for the Korean people.
