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South Korean Cultural Ecology - 1905 to 1990
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Chemistry, Energy:
Lucky, Limited Honan Oil Refinery Company, Limited Lucky Petrochemical Company, Limited Hoyu Energy Company, Limited Machinery, Metals: Goldstar Cable Company, Limited Kukje Electric Wire Company, Limited Lucky Metals Corporation Construction, Services: Lucky Engineering Company, Limited Lucky-Goldstar Mart Company, Limited He Sung Tourism Development Company, Limited Lucky-Goldstar Ad Incorporated Systems Technology Management Corporation |
Electric, Electronics:
Goldstar Company, Limited Goldstar Information and Communications, Limited Goldstar Telecommunication Company, Limited Goldstar Software, Limited Goldstar Electron, Limited Goldstar-Alps Electronics Company, Limited Goldstar Precision Company, Limited Goldstar Industrial Systems Company, Limited Goldstar Instrument and Electric Company, Limited Goldstar Electric Machinery Company, Limited Goldstar-Honeywell Company, Limited |
Trade, Finance:
Lucky-Goldstar International Corporation Lucky Securities Company, Limited Lucky Insurance Company, Limited Pusan Investment and Finance Corporation Lucky-Goldstar Credit Card Company, Limited Public services, Sports: Lucky Goldstar Economic Research Institute The Yonam Foundation The Yonam Educational Institute Lucky-Goldstar Sports, Limited Lucky-Goldstar Welfare Foundation |
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Notice that the companies range from electronics, machinery, wire, instruments, metals, securities, insurance, tourism, ads, sports, and many others. Of the big five chaebols, only Sangyong had a good reputation and good labor relations with its workers. Korea's mode of insertion into the global economy, export-oriented-growth, required the global, suprafactory coordination and repression of the labor force to be effective. In its effort to systematically destroy organized labor, the government constructed three lines of containment: legal, ideological and repressive. Laws were passed forbidding strikes until a lengthy process of dispute resolution and even then the government could intervene and impose compulsory arbitration if it chose to do so. As a result, in the last 30 years there has been no "legal" strike. |
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