Financialization of Poverty: Proletarianizing the Financial Crisis in Post-Developmental Korea

Chang Kyung-Sup

A chapter in Risking Capitalism, 2016, vol. 31, pp 109-134 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: With their national economy rapidly and structurally turning away from the long-cherished stable employment regime since the national financial crisis, South Koreans’ poverty is increasingly manifested through financial entrapment ensuing from heavy personal indebtedness to banks, kin members and friends, and, the worst of all, private usurers. The world’s once most aggressively saving population turned into one of the world’s most indebted populations merely in a decade. Having lost its once-proud capacity of a developmental state, the South Korean government has instead been busy devising various public schemes for offering grassroots consumer loans in supposedly preferential terms. Consumer credit, instead of social wage, has been offered rather generously by this increasingly neoliberalized state. This is another crucial component offinancializationin the contemporary world political economy. South Korea’s emergency measures for escaping the national financial crisis have paradoxically ended up transplanting the financial trouble from banks and industrial enterprises to grassroots households.

Keywords: Household debt; poverty; citizenship; financialization; post-development; neoliberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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