Facing rising unemployment rates and welfare burdens, the Korean government has looked to social enterprises to create jobs and provide other services for the disadvantaged.

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In December it announced that state-owned enterprises under the central government would remain in control of industrial sectors considered crucial to national security and economic welfare: military equipment, electric power, oil and petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation and shipping.

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