Sunyoung LEE Researcher, Broadcaster (KOREA) Sunyoung Lee started her career in the field of broadcasting at Korea’s MBC (Munwha Broadcasting Corporation) in 1984. As a broadcaster specializing in the areas of culture and literature, she hosted and produced various programmes for both TV and Radio. In honour of the enthusiasm and dedication her broadcasts showed to literature and books, she was recognised in 1996 as ‘the most literary figure in the field of broadcasting’ in Korea. The high school quiz-show, ‘The Scholarship Quiz’ was one of many programmes she presented. During her stay in Munich, Germany in ’97-’98, she served as a foreign correspondent for Korea compiling weekly reports on German life and also worked at the ZDF, Germany’s national public TV station, as a foreign broadcaster. The 12-episode TV programme she co-produced and presented in Germany, ‘Sunyoung Lee’s German Report’ was chosen as the Programme of the Year in 1998. Her renowned daily TV show, ‘Women change the world’ was produced to focus on and rekindle women’s potential in Korean society. Since her move into the UK in 2000, she has worked as a foreign correspondent for Korea until 2006. In 2004, she worked for the BBC as a freelance broadcaster, co-producing a current-affair programme. She is also known as a columnist for newspapers and monthly magazines - especially her monthly columns, ‘Sunyoung Lee’s Report from the UK.” As one of the board members of the 2002 Seoul World Cup Cultural Committee, she contributed to the betterment of the environment of Korea. Sunyoung graduated from Sogang Jesuit University as a valedictorian with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications. She acquired her Master’s degree in Communication Policy Studies at City University in London. Currently working as a researcher at the Institute of Child Care Research at Queen’s University, U.K., she is in the final year of her PhD on sociology.