Talk:Economy of South Korea

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[edit] 'History' section

What is that little 'History' section at the end of the article? seems obsolete to me.

[edit] South Korea debt restructuring

I don't know, but i was looking for the dynamics of those involved in debt restructuring after Asian financial crisis, but i can't see anything that even mention debt restructuring. If its there, i think i am an idiot, or the article title is not intuitive enough. Anybody care to help?

[edit] Resource

An anon dropped a huge amount of text from [1] into South Korea. It didn't belong there, but could probably be adapted here... unlike that article, this one needs a lot of expansion. -- Visviva 23:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size of Economy

The article text claims that the Korean economy is the 10th largest in the world, but the infobox says that it's 12th. Which is it? Susan Davis 00:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

It looks like just about all the information in the infobox is overdue for an update, since just about all of it is out of synch with its reference (the CIA factbook). The article List of countries by GDP (PPP) places South Korea's economy at either 13th or 14th, depending on the source. Assuming nobody else beats me to it, I'll update the figures to bring them in line with the CIA factbook when I get the time to do so, and change the article to reflect the new information. --Zonath 00:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Please see WP:LEAD. Please discuss. FrummerThanThou 17:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

The lead could use some cleanup... but the tag says the opening paragraph is too long, and the opening paragraph of this article is only 2 sentences. Puzzled, -- Visviva 02:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
WP:LEAD talks about length of the lead section, not of the opening paragraph. As the template was misleading, I modifird it. --Kusunose 03:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

I just want to say that the picture of the gigantic apartment buildings in the box illustrates the article's point PERFECTLY. Good job! Zweifel 07:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

That's supposed to be satirical, right? (Wikimachine 04:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Une Note

Don't you think that South Korea should no longer be part of Asia's four little tigers/dragons and become one of "Asia's Three Giant Tigers/Dragons"? And, I think that this article should mention about Samsung having more .... than toshiba, sony, and Fugitsu added up all together... Orthodoxy 20:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

If you can remember the source, put it up. Jin29 18:13, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FTA between S.Korea and US

Can someone write about it in the article please? It seems a huge issue in South Korea —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chulk90 (talk • contribs) 04:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Development needed

While there has been a lot of work done on this page, it is still sadly unsatisfactory as a good description of the Korean economy. Basic information about the composition of the economy is left out, and small trinkets are used in the place of solid explanation (see tourism). It is also overly historical, which itself isn't a bad thing, but probably deserves its own page. Waygugin 02:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Is it just me or was most of this article written in 1990? -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 03:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Is there a better picture suited for wikipedia for the main sidebar of this artical? CMonkey111 (talk) 01:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] we need some pictures

This article looks quite monotonous, mainly because there are only a couple of pictures. It's about 58 kb long. Readers would consider this article boring unless there are some more pictures like Economy of the United States does.

Any suggestions for photos? -- Chulk90 (talk) 00:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalist or corporatist?

Should South Korea's economy be described as capitalist or corporatist? I ask this question because I often hear statements in the media such as "Communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea", but it seems to me that historically South Korea has been more corporatist than capitalist, with the use of chaebeol and government direction of economic affairs. This was especially true in the past before increased liberalization. If you think that South Korea's economic system was corporatist in the early part of its post-WWII life, but capitalist now, at what point should the label change from corporatist to capitalist? --RisingSunWiki 18:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)