대규모기업집단의 변천, 1987-2013년: 지정 연도 수 및 순위를 중심으로

Abstract

From 1987, the government began to select bigger businesses in order to regulate them: private businesses only in 1987-2001 and both private and public ones thereafter. This means not only that negative effects made by the selected businesses are significant enough both actually and potentially, but their positive effects are significantly enough as well, probably to a greater extent. By regulating the bigger businesses, therefore, the government intended to maximize their positive effects. The paper focuses on who these bigger businesses are, when they were selected, and which rankings they had. By doing so, the paper sheds lights on how long and to what extent the businesses had, either actually or potentially, influenced the Korean economy. The 135 private businesses had played their own roles for periods of from 27 years to 1 year in 1987-2013; the 19 public ones for periods of from 12 years to 1 year in 2002-2013. The rankings of private businesses ranged from 1st to 78th, while those of public businesses from 1st to 11th. Among the 135 private businesses, only 14, some 10%, were selected for the whole period of 27. Of these 14, only three(Samsung, LG, SK) had maintained the highest rankings between 1st and 10th; besides these ‘big 3’, five other businesses(Hyundai Motors, Daewoo, GS, Daewoo Corporation, POSCO) were also ranked as between 1st and 10th.