After 1989, although the Korean economy hit a bottle-neck after such rapid acceleration, by June this year the 1991 Global League of Competitiveness of the IMD still placed the strength of Korea's domestic economy and technology at the head of the world's ten NIC's. As for its overall competitiveness, although Korea did not equal Singapore and Hong Kong, it still beat Taiwan by one place.
但在今年六月瑞士國際管理發展學院發表的「一九九一年全球競爭力排行」中，在「國內經濟實力」與「科技實力」兩項表現上，韓國仍然高居全球十個新興工業國家之首；而在整體競爭力上，韓國雖不如新加坡及香港，卻略勝台灣一籌。