Wealth Gap and Labor Strike: What is even more worrying for economists is the unbalanced structure of Korean industry. Around a thousand large-scale enterprises (a large number of which are owned by the same conglomerates) account for more than 60 percent of the nation's entire industry, while the remaining section is occupied by some 50,000 small and medium-scale enterprises.
更令韓國經濟學者擔心的，是產業結構的不均衡：為數不過一千多家的大企業（其中許多還是屬於同一個財團）佔了全國總生產額的六成以上，剩下的則分屬近五萬家中小型企業。