Sung-Yoon Lee

Sung-Yoon Lee, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, teaches courses on Korea and U.S.-East Asia relations. He is a former Research Fellow with the National Asia Research Program, a joint initiative by the National Bureau of Asia Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and former Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. In 2005, he launched at Harvard’s Korea Institute a new seminar series, the “Kim Koo Forum on U.S.–Korea Relations.” He has taught courses on Korean political history at Bowdoin College (2000), Sogang University (2007), and Seoul National University (2012-2015). His opeds have been published multiple times in The Hill, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Asia Times, etc. Lee is a frequent commentator on major international broadcast networks, including BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, PRI, etc., and has testified as an expert witness at U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on North Korea policy. In 2013, the Guardian called Lee “[a]mong the most insightful and prescient chroniclers.”

Research/Areas of Interest:

• Political philosophy
• Democracy
• Confucianism
• US-East Asia Relations
• North Korea
• South Korea

Education

• MA, Tufts University, Medford, United States
• PhD, Tufts University, Medford, United States

Tufts University Appointments

• Assistant Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2012 - present
• Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professorship in Korean Studies
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2012 - present
• Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Oct 1998 - 30 Sep 2011
• Visiting Assistant Professor
  Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences, History, 1 Sep 2000 - 31 Aug 2002