 Lee continued to be among the top world skaters on the shorter distances in the 2008 season.In the first World Cup race of the season, at the Utah Olympic Oval, Lee skated a new personal best mark with 34.31 seconds, just 0.01 seconds behind the world record before that race, yet was beaten both by compatriot Lee Kang-seok, who thus took the Korean national record, and Jeremy Wotherspoon, who had returned after a 365-day absence.Lee then missed out on Sunday's 1000 metre victory by 0.04 seconds, and despite lowering his personal best to 1