What do you mean by different kind of GDP? Different currency due to some recent events? Different industries? What so ever it is, I personally think Korea still has a better fiscal sustainability/health than Russia now days, whose main industry is natural resources unlike Korea. Well it would have been a big problem if there were the next oil shock/crisis to come in a year or two but that ain’t the case now and for the near future. In fact Russia is undergoing reduction of military budget from this year and will continue for the next several years.
Thus even though Korean citizen are under debt, that is not the only case of Korea but all around the world thanks to subprime-mortgage crisis 9 years ago and European citizen along the former American middle-class are going though same kind of difficulties. Moreover, governmental debt is really low in Korea, being only around 35~ 8% of GDP and still around 68 % of GDP when all the debts of public/government enterprises and institutions are putted into account. The households debt of 2017 is around $ 40600 per economically active population and is half of that when the debt is divided by all the population capable of economically over the age of 15. So it needs some help from appropriate gov. policy but ain’t as serious as the nuance of what you’ve wrote.
Russia has different kind of GDP. Russia can bomb Middleast and import price rise will be paid by Korea. Corporate Korea is completely depended on foreign skills, raw materials, markets, industry. It is inherently deeply corrupt. Russia has made Yota phone based on imported components but it can fully manufacture most advance communication devices for military. Just look Putin official planes. but not in millions that need millions in third world labor to manufacture and diversified sofyware, marketing and sales teams for each market that can make the host country dysfunctional.
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