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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . Corporate closures are the missing link in South Korea's overhaul after the 1997 foreign-exchange crisis, which was part of the wider Asian contagion. That failure of will is igniting fears of a second bankruptcy crisis. Korea rebounded quickly from the 1997 meltdown but may have basked in the glory too long without paying the price. By John Larkin.