How to Use chaebol in a Sentence

chaebol

noun
  • Yet Park, too, saw the magnitude of the task and took the easy route: asking the chaebol to help Seoul hasten growth.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The lack of external limits on the power of those leading the chaebols has meant that abuse often goes unchecked.
    Jake Kwon and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 16 July 2019
  • Previous presidents, such as Kim Dae-jung in the 1990s, tried to break the chaebol system.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2017
  • The appointment is in keeping with President Moon Jae-in’s pledges to reform the chaebol.
    Youkyung Lee, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • South Korea’s chaebol were showered with cheap credit and tax breaks.
    The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Read more here about South Korea’s effort to reform chaebol.
    Sohee Kim, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Lee’s sentence, while less severe than the 12-year jail term prosecutors sought, was one of the harshest sentences for a chaebol leader.
    Sohee Kim, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • SK Group, a chaebol best known for its semiconductors and telecoms businesses, took a big step into the hot area of crypto.
    Ralph Jennings, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Not for the first time, a new president has won election promising an overhaul of corporate giants like Samsung and Hyundai—the chaebols.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 10 May 2017
  • Park’s successor, Moon Jae-in, made chaebol reform a central plank of his election campaign.
    Heejin Kim, Bloomberg.com, 21 Mar. 2019
  • South Koreans covet jobs at chaebol companies, which are among the most lucrative in the country.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Moon Jae-in, the country’s leader since May 2017, has vowed to loosen the cozy relationship between South Korea’s business empires—known as chaebols—and government.
    Eun-Young Jeong, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • And if the economy slows, lawmakers may fear that constraining the chaebol would further endanger growth.
    Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2017
  • Investors have bid up Samsung shares and those of other chaebols taking similar measures.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Stiff regulation and rigid chaebol supply chains are cages that stifle unicorns.
    Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The vast majority of people on the minimum wage work at smaller businesses, not chaebol.
    The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Mr Kim’s downfall is the latest setback for President Moon Jae-in’s ambitious chaebol reforms.
    The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And other chaebol chiefs have been found guilty of criminal wrongdoing — only to be let off with light sentences and allowed to return to running their businesses.
    Jake Kwon, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Over the decades, numerous chaebol executives have been paraded into courts on bribery and other charges.
    Choe Sang-Hun and Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Delivering on campaign promises to reform the chaebol and create jobs for young people will be difficult.
    Jiyeun Lee, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
  • In South Korea, establishing chaebols was viewed as a way to fast-track the country’s economic development.
    Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Compared to reforming the chaebol, policies to help lower-income workers are easier sells for the government.
    Bloomberg.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • At least six of the nation’s top 10 chaebol, which generate revenue equivalent to more than 80 percent of gross domestic product, are led by men once convicted of white-collar crimes.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Yet the notorious Korea discount, which stems from investors’ wariness about chaebol, hasn’t narrowed.
    Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Moon also calls for stronger punishment for white-collar crimes committed by chaebol owners and government officials who take bribes from them.
    Washington Post, 9 May 2017
  • Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s left-wing president, who had kept his distance from its biggest chaebol (conglomerate) for its role in the scandal that brought down his predecessor, was quick to mend relations.
    The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Prosecutors have indeed harried the chaebol under Mr Moon.
    The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Booms in finance and technology can concentrate wealth in a few hands, such as South Korea’s chaebol chipmakers or Hong Kong’s property tycoons.
    The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Venture capital was scarce in a financial system built to funnel funds to the large conglomerates, called chaebol, that dominate the economy.
    Michael Schuman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Inevitably, South Korea's chaebol are part of the country's strategy to remain competitive.
    Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2022

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