# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sung-yoon-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:28:16.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sung-yoon-lee"
name: "Sung-Yoon Lee"
slug: "sung-yoon-lee"
description: "Sung-Yoon Lee is a South Korean political scientist, author, and commentator on Korean studies and East Asian studies, specializing in North Korea, who has been active mainly in the United States. A prominent advocate of hard-line, sanctions-centered policies toward North Korea, Lee has been a longstanding critic of engagement-oriented approaches such as the Sunshine Policy. He has also been a persistent critic of South Korea's progressive administrations, arguing that the governments of Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in did not deliver substantive improvements in press freedom or restraint in the use of state power, and describing South Korea as having undergone democratic backsliding under Moon."
tagline: "Korea and East Asia scholar, professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/US_Congress_House_Committee_Foreign_Affairs_2018_hearing_--_North_Korea%E2%80%99s_Diplomatic_Gambit-_Will_History_Repeat_Itself%3F_02_Sung-Yoon_Lee_-_cropped.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           40.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.811628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SungYoonLee1"
    handle:    "SungYoonLee1"
sources:
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    title: "Sung-Yoon Lee"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sung-Yoon_Lee"
    title: "Sung-Yoon Lee"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sung-Yoon_Lee"
    title: "Sung-Yoon Lee"
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    title: "이성윤 (정치외교학자)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump