And following Hong Kong in 2002 and Korea in 2003, Taiwan in 2005 experienced an explosion of credit-card debt, with about 500,000 "card slaves" accumulating about NT $ 40 billion in debt. It created a new financial crisis for the government to cope with.
而繼 2002 年香港、2003 年韓國之後，台灣也於 2005 年發生卡債風暴，估計 50 萬名「卡奴」共欠下台幣 400 億元，已成為政府的新金融難題。