Korea’s New Pro-Chaebol President Takes Office
When Lee Myung-bak is inaugurated today as Korea’s 10th president, the man famously nicknamed ”the Bulldozer” for his achievements as a construction company CEO, appears ready to help the chaebol, the vast, interlinked family-run corporations that powered the country’s initial explosive growth and then ran into trouble in the Asian financial crisis of 1…
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