How to Use chaebol in a Sentence

chaebol

noun
  • Rapper Annie is the first chaebol heiress K-pop idol.
    — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2025
  • South Korea’s chaebol were showered with cheap credit and tax breaks.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Those who work in a chaebol make roughly twice the salary of workers in small and medium-sized companies.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The largest and most successful chaebol of all is Samsung Group.
    — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The largest chaebol is Samsung, which started as a grocery trading store.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The lack of external limits on the power of those leading the chaebols has meant that abuse often goes unchecked.
    — Jake Kwon and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 16 July 2019
  • Stiff regulation and rigid chaebol supply chains are cages that stifle unicorns.
    — Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Porcini feels slightly out-of-place in the Korean chaebol’s offices.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • In-ha with his schoolwork and also offers pointers on how to manage his hostile chaebol family.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The entitled chaebol does not actually care about anyone else or even assign much value to human life.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Investors have bid up Samsung shares and those of other chaebols taking similar measures.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The second advantage of this open innovation model is that the keiretsu and chaebol get access to new ideas and products.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune Asia, 30 June 2024
  • Park’s successor, Moon Jae-in, made chaebol reform a central plank of his election campaign.
    — Heejin Kim, Bloomberg.com, 21 Mar. 2019
  • The vast majority of people on the minimum wage work at smaller businesses, not chaebol.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • And if the economy slows, lawmakers may fear that constraining the chaebol would further endanger growth.
    — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2017
  • Over the decades, numerous chaebol executives have been paraded into courts on bribery and other charges.
    — Choe Sang-Hun and Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • South Koreans covet jobs at chaebol companies, which are among the most lucrative in the country.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Delivering on campaign promises to reform the chaebol and create jobs for young people will be difficult.
    — Jiyeun Lee, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
  • Lee’s sentence, while less severe than the 12-year jail term prosecutors sought, was one of the harshest sentences for a chaebol leader.
    — Sohee Kim, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The appointment is in keeping with President Moon Jae-in’s pledges to reform the chaebol.
    — Youkyung Lee, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • Opening up a new unregulated zone in which chaebol can conduct business could well upset what little balance remains.
    — David Volodzko, The New Republic, 26 June 2018
  • Such a display is rare in South Korea, where chaebol leaders like Lee and Chung tend to keep a low public profile.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • South Korea often brims with schadenfreude when a chaebol scion is publicly humiliated.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Moon also calls for stronger punishment for white-collar crimes committed by chaebol owners and government officials who take bribes from them.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2017
  • Joon-woo’s overly humble, cloying personality is a ruse to hide his true identity as a ruthless scheming chaebol.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Yet the notorious Korea discount, which stems from investors’ wariness about chaebol, hasn’t narrowed.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And other chaebol chiefs have been found guilty of criminal wrongdoing — only to be let off with light sentences and allowed to return to running their businesses.
    — Jake Kwon, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Previous presidents, such as Kim Dae-jung in the 1990s, tried to break the chaebol system.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2017
  • Compared to reforming the chaebol, policies to help lower-income workers are easier sells for the government.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Not for the first time, a new president has won election promising an overhaul of corporate giants like Samsung and Hyundai—the chaebols.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 10 May 2017

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