Private company

SsangYong Group

Logo: Ssangyong Group, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

South Korean business conglomerate

SsangYong Group (Korean: 쌍용그룹; RR: Ssangyong geurup) was a South Korean chaebol (a Korean family-controlled conglomerate). Tracing its origins to 1939, by the 1970s it was one of the largest enterprise groups in the country, before disintegrating in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

SsangYong Group (Korean: 쌍용그룹; RR: Ssangyong geurup) was a South Korean chaebol (a Korean family-controlled conglomerate). Tracing its origins to 1939, by the 1970s it was one of the largest enterprise groups in the country, before disintegrating in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.2

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