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As the global financial crisis has unfolded, many South Koreans feel they are reliving a nightmare. South Korean stock markets and currency have dropped more than 30 percent since last summer as foreign investors have fled in droves. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on efforts by the South Korean government to make the country a leading Asian business hub by slowly lifting restrictions on the ways its currency, the won, is traded and used abroad. How encouraging foreign investment is seen as vital to the economy; Comments of Han Duck Soo, secretary for economic affairs; Ways the government will ease currency restrictions, including giving companies more freedom to borrow abroad.