Peregrine's last days, by Andre Lee
First start in investment banking
Pioneering the Asian bond business
Building the business at Peregrine
The approach of the Asian financial crisis
You have moved several times in your life between America and Asia. What was your up-bringing like? I was born in New York city and I moved when I was five years old to Korea and at that time - in 1968 - Korea was only barely beginning some sort of industrial development. Electricity failures were common. If you could find Coca-Cola you were quite lucky. Finding any imported goods at all was almost impossible unless you went to the army base. In those first years in Korea I was, I think, very integrated within Korean society. Then we moved to an area where foreigners lived. I started going to the department of defence school on the army base and friends began to change and speak English, so life was kind of sheltered for a while. Then in high school I transferred to an international school, because my father had left the civil service and was starting business on his own as a lawyer, so that exposed me much more to many Korean Americans.