Now head of a management and trust company, Lee was Korea's Minister of Finance 1988-90 and Minister of Finance and Economy 1998-99. He details events and circumstances from 1996 just before the crisis until 1999 when Korea's economy began to rebound. Among his topics are the origin of the crisis, initial responses, securing foreign currency liquidity and laying the groundwork for reform and restructuring from December 1997 to April 1998, getting the economy back on track and quickening the pace of restructuring October to December 1998, and the settlement of the Daewoo shock and the expanded economic recovery in July-December 1999. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)