The 1997-98 Korean Financial Crisis: Causes, Policy Response, and Lessons; Presentation by Kim Kihwan at the imf-singapore Government High level seminar, Singapore; July 10, 2006

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The 1997-98 Korean Financial Crisis:   

Causes, Policy Response, and Lessons 

 

 

Presentation 

 

by  

 

Kim Kihwan

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at 

 

The High-Level Seminar on Crisis Prevention in Emerging Markets 

 

Organized 

 

by 

 

The International Monetary Fund 

 

and  

 

The Government of Singapore 

 

 

Singapore 

 

July 10-11, 2006 

 

                                             

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  The  author  is  Chair  of  the  Seoul  Finance  Forum,  International  Advisor  to  Goldman 

Sachs and Chair of the Korea National Committee for the Pacific Economic Cooperation 

Council  (PECC).  The  author  wishes  to  gratefully  acknowledge  the  most  generous  and 

invaluable  research  assistance  he  received  in  preparing  this  presentation  from  Mr. 

Junghan Koo, Ph.D., Research Fellow at Korea Institute of Finance, Seoul. The author is, 

however, responsible for any errors. 

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