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chaebol

Chaebol is the Korean reading of 財閥, 'wealth clique', the same characters Japan used for its zaibatsu, which also became Chinese cáifá and Vietnamese tài phiệt; English took the Korean word in the early 1970s for South Korea's family-run conglomerates.

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1910Japanese

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