>more links/further reading on 1) 51% controlling interest chains >>A chaebol can own 51% of a company to get voting rights. That company can own 51% of anothe

>more links/further reading on 1) 51% controlling interest chains >>A chaebol can own 51% of a company to get voting rights. That company can own 51% of another company, and 51% of another company, and so on. Multiply it all the way through a chain of companies, and you can get many companies near the bottom of the chain where the chaebol actually owns a small minority of the companies and yet controls those companies nonetheless. it is almost word by word that example from the Das Kapital :)