Sung-Yoon Lee
Korea and East Asia scholar, professor · South Korea · Academics · Born 1901 · age 125
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Something wrong?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.
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![Professors John Curtis Perry and Sung-Yoon Lee; Perry was Lee's doctoral advisor, and subsequently colleague at the Fletcher School, developing a lifelong relationship of friendship and mentorship.[2][20] In this picture they are seen visiting, as part of an academic delegation, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, Korea, in 2015.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Professors_John_Curtis_Perry_and_Sung-Yoon_Lee_visiting_the_ASAN_Institute_for_Policy_Studies_in_Seoul%2C_Korea%2C_on_June_2%2C_2015.jpg/1280px-Professors_John_Curtis_Perry_and_Sung-Yoon_Lee_visiting_the_ASAN_Institute_for_Policy_Studies_in_Seoul%2C_Korea%2C_on_June_2%2C_2015.jpg)
Professors John Curtis Perry and Sung-Yoon Lee; Perry was Lee's doctoral advisor, and subsequently colleague at the Fletcher School, developing a lifelong relationship of friendship and mentorship.[2][20] In this picture they are seen visiting, as part of an academic delegation, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, Korea, in 2015.
Sung-Yoon Lee in a 2013 US congressional hearing on North Korea's criminal activitiesAcademics from South Korea 6
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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.
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