Crisis atlas / KOR
South Korea
28 distinct crisis events in 8 episodes, 1946–2008, from the union of five primary chronologies.
Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →
Crisis timeline
Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.
- 2008Currencyrr1 source
- 2002Bankingrr1 source
- 2001Bankingrr1 source
- 2000Bankingrr1 source
- 1999Bankingrr1 source
- 1998Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sourcesBankinglaeven_valencia, rr2 sources
- 1997Currencyrr1 sourceBankinggmd, laeven_valencia, rr3 sources
- 1988Bankingrr1 source
- 1987Bankingrr1 source
- 1986Bankingrr1 source
- 1985Bankingrr1 source
- 1980Currencyrr1 source
- 1979Currencyrr1 source
- 1975Currencyrr1 source
- 1970Currencyrr1 source
- 1966Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1963Currencyrr1 source
- 1962Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1955Currencyrr1 source
- 1954Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1952Currencyrr1 source
- 1951Currencyrr1 source
- 1950Currencyrr1 source
- 1949Currencyrr1 source
- 1948Currencyrr1 source
- 1946Currencygmd, rr2 sources
Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology
Macro context around each episode
Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.
1946–1955
Currency1962–1966
Currency1970
Currency1975
Currency1979–1980
Currency1985–1988
Banking2008
CurrencySource: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology