Chaebol General Motors and Renault. The chaebol debts were not only to state industrial banks but also to independent banks and their own financial services subsidiaries. The scale of the loan defaults meant that banks could neither foreclose nor write off bad loans without themselves collapsing, so the failure to service these debts quickly caused a systemic banking crisis, and South Korea turned to the IMF for assistance. The most spectacular example came in mid-1999, with the collapse of the Daewoo Group, which had some US$80 billion in unpaid debt. At the time, it was the largest corporate bankruptcy in history.
Youth unemployment in South Korea future employment and wages in the job market. The three universities Korean students aim for are Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University also known as S.K.Y. These universities provide the connection needed to be employed in government or in family-owned conglomerates (chaebols) that come with employee benefits. Before the Suneung begins, Korean parents prepare for years in their children's education by investing thousands of dollars in tutoring and private education. Around 100,000 hagwons (Korean cram/private schools) are in South Korea. In 2010, around 75% of students attended private education. In 2017, over 80% of all Korean students attended