South Korea's economy was one of the world's fastest-growing from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and was still one of the fastest-growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, the other three Asian Tigers.
Sydkoreas økonomi var en af verdens hurtigst voksende fra begyndelsen af 1960'erne til slutningen af 1990'erne og var fortsat et af de hurtigst voksende industrilande i 2000'erne sammen med Hong Kong, Singapore og Taiwan, de andre tre asiatiske tigre.