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Korea’s Bulldozer must clean up the chaebol

By Anna Fifield

Published: March 26 2008 18:36 | Last updated: March 26 2008 18:36

In South Korea, you can be born in a Samsung hospital and end up in a Samsung mortuary.

Koreans say this to illustrate how ubiquitous the chaebol conglomerates are in their daily lives. From home appliances and insurance to apartment towers and baseball, Samsung, the biggest chaebol, has almost every area of life covered.

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