Meanwhile, political factors played an important role in allowing debt to build up – creating vulnerabilities that could quickly become an economic crisis once investors became nervous. Even though South Korean state-owned banks nominally controlled the flow of capital, tight relationships between the private sector and the government meant that the chaebol felt they had little to fear.
与此同时，政治因素在债务积累过程中扮演着重要角色，创造了极大的脆弱性，当投资者感到情况不妙时，经济危机就迅速发生了。尽管韩国国有银行在名义上控制着资本流动，但私人部门和政府之间的机密联系让财阀有恃无恐。