Some specific patterns within this overall economic transformation proved to be long-term significance. The colonial state preferred to work with large business groups. Following the Meiji model, but with the vengeance in Korea, the Government-General utilized various means to encourage the formation of large-scale business enterprises; larger groups enjoyed preferred interest rates on credit, lower charges of electricity, direct price supports, and indirect subsidies such as lower transportation costs on government controlled railways. Nearly two-thirds of the total production in 1930s was thus produced by ony a handful of Japanese zaibatsu, but gigantic enterprises also came into their own under this regime, herein may lie the origin of chaebols. The significant strata of Korean entrepreneurs emerged under the colonial auspices; many of these would go on to establish such major chaebols of modern South Korean as Samsung, Hyundai and Lucky. The colonial state was highly purposive; it put increasing production near the top of its priorities. Propertied classes were offered various rewards especially, handsome profits – for cooperating with the state in fulfilling this economic agenda. The state, in turn, utilized numerous means – including promotions of technology, control over credit, subsidies, capital accumulation, and even economic exhortations – to ensure compliance from both Korean and Japanese landlords and businessmen.