Sung-Yoon Lee

Sung-Yoon Lee 이성윤
Native name	이성윤
Born	Seoul, South Korea
Citizenship	South Korea
Fields	Korean studies, East Asian studies
Institutions	The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Alma mater	New College of Florida (B.A.) The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A.) The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor	John Curtis Perry

Sung-Yoon Lee (Hangul: 이성윤; Hanja: 李晟允) is a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies, and specialist on North Korea. He is the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is an Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. He is a former Research Fellow at the National Asia Research Program.

Lee majored in American and British literature at New College in Sarasota, Florida, graduating in 1991. He pursued his graduate studies at the Fletcher School, completing his Master of Arts in 1994, and his Ph.D. in 1998.John Curtis Perry became his doctoral advisor and developed a lifelong mentor-mentee relationship. In his dissertation "The antinomy of divine right and the right to resistance: tianming, dei gratia, and in Syngman Rhee's Korea, 1945-1960", Lee analyzed the interplay between Confucianism and democracy in defining political authority and statecraft during the early years of the Republic of Korea.

Lee first joined the faculty of The Fletcher School as the Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics in 1998 and until 2005. Concurrently he was also the Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Tufts university starting in 2000 and until 2005. Between 2005 and 2006 he was the Kim Koo Research Associate at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. In 2007 he resumed his position at the Fletcher School, and in 2012 became the first holder of the newly created chair Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies.

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