Venture boom (that went)

In a post couple of days ago about highly educated people with white-collar work experience seeking to make their living with street trading, there was someone selling 1000 won mandu (dumplings) who once had worked in a venture (pench'ô / bencheo) business. It was kind of a telling example of what happened to the venture hype. (Had it been pungôppang/pungeobbang instead of mandu, the contrast to venture business would have been even more poignant.)


Fish-shaped pastry pungôppang.
Some time ago I did a newspaper article search in KINDS about the appearance of the word venture (벤처), limiting the search only on Chosun Ilbo. It gives some idea of the "venture business" excitement a few years ago. Note that some of the appearances of the term do not refer to "venture business."

The number of appearances of the word "venture" (벤처) in Chosun Ilbo

1994	26
1995	71
1996	144
1997	331
1998	340
1999	874
2000	1851
2001	915
2002	843
2003	494
2004 1/4	86

Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: businesskeepers ∙ money ∙ stratification ∙ Koreaneconomy