Causal Maps of President Kim Dae Jung：Systems thinking in managing the Korean financial crisis of 1997

김대중 대통령의 인과지도：1997년도 금융위기의 원인과 극복에 관한 김대중 대통령의 시스템 사고

After the unanticipated financial crisis of Korea in 1997, lots of debates have been held on how to manage the crisis. However, few studies attempt to analyze policy makers' map that shaped and guided various measures for overcoming the crisis. This paper explores cognitive maps and systems thinking of the President of Korea who successfully managed the financial crisis. Futhermore, his cognitive map is compared to that of Prime Minister of Malaysia who overcome financial crisis successfully but in different ways. In this paper the causal map analysis of policy makers is proposed as a promising approach for in-depth investigation of systems thinking of policy makers.