Education

• •	Ph.D. 2001. Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  •	M.A. Sociology 1990, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
  •	B.A.  Sociology 1988, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
  

Professional Experience and Awards

<Korea University>
2013/03 – present : Professor, Department of Public Administration,  Korea University
2008/03 – 2013/02: Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Korea University
2007/09 – 2008/02: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Korea University

< Other Universities >
2004. 07 ~ 2007. 08: Assistant Professor, Dept of Geography, National University of Singapore
2001. 07 ~ 2004. 06: Post-doctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2000. 09 ~ 2001. 06: Lecturer, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 
1994. 01 ~ 2000. 05: Research Associate, Project on Regional & Industrial Economics, Rutgers University

<Awards>
2022. 『Ordinary City Seoul』, Best Academic Book Awarded by Sejong Book
1998-1999.SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships, Social Science Research Council
1997-1998. Bevier Fellowship, Rutgers University
1997-1998. Research and Travel Grants, Center for International Business Education & Research, Rutgers University

Undergraduate/Graduate Courses

Urban Planning, Regional Development, Policy Development(Industrial policy, Urban and Regional policy)

Books

• Lee, Y.S. & Shin, Y.M. & Lee, M.Y. (2022) Ordinary City Seoul, Hakgojae.
  https://post.naver.com/viewer/postView.naver?volumeNo=34571333&memberNo=16432281
  
  Lee, Y.S. & Yeoh, B.S.A. (2006) (eds.) Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting, London and New York: Routledge.
  https://ari.nus.edu.sg/publications/globalisation-and-the-politics-of-forgetting/
  
  Markusen, A.R., Lee, Y.S. & DiGiovanna, S. (1999) (eds.) Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/second-tier-cities
  
  
  
  

Book Chapters

• •	이용숙 (2015) 「서울 창의시정의 실패」, 정재용 편저, 『추격혁신을 넘어:탈추격의 명암』 신서원 Yong-Sook Lee : Failure of Seoul Creative Administration”, In J.Y Jeong (ed.) Beyond Catching up Innovation:  The Light and Darkness of the Post-Catching up, Seoul: Sinseowon (in Korean). 
  
  •	Lee, Y.S., Gimm, D.W. & Hwang, E.J. (2014) “Seoul : Successful restructuring towards a knowledge-baed economy”. In A. Colantonio, R. Burdett and P. Rode (eds.) Transforming Urban Economies : Policy lessons from European and Asian Cities. Routledge, pp. 164-201.
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee, E.J. Hwang, J.H. Min (2013) “Analysis and Prospects of the Post-catching up Regional Policy: The Cases of the Participatory government’s and Lee MyungBak government’s Regional Policy”, In J.Y Jeong and H.R Hwang (eds.) Vetting Post-Catching Up Innovation System, Seoul: Hanwool Academy (in Korean).
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Kim, H.J. (2013) “The role of the state in creating display industry clusters in South Korea”, In P. Cooke, G. Searle and K. O'connor (eds.) The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region, Routledge, pp. 129-143.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2012) “Clusters as a Policy Panacea? Critical Reflections on the Cluster Policies of South Korea”, In B.G. Park, R.C. Hill, and A. Saito (eds.) Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 148- 166.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Shin, H.R. (2011) “New Towns for Suburbs?: Developmental State Politics and New Town Development in Seoul Metropolitan Region”, In N.A. Phelps and F. Wueds. International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World?, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 225-244.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Markusen, A.R. (2003) “The South Korean Defense Industry in the Post Cold War Era”, In A. Markusen, S. DiGiovanna and M. Leary (eds.) From Defense to Development: International Perspectives on Realizing the Peace Dividend, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 224-253.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (1999) “Masan Free Export Zone: Conflict and Attrition in a South Korean Satellite Platform”, In A. Markusen, Y.S. Lee, and S. DiGiovanna (eds.) Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis, pp.183-198.
  
  •	Funaba, M., Sasaki, M., Lee, Y.S. & Markusen, A.R. (1999)  “Japanese Technopolis Policy: A View from Hiroshima and Toyama”, In A. Markusen, Y.S. Lee, and S. DiGiovanna (eds.) Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis, pp. 239-266.
  
  •	Markusen, A.R., Lee, Y.S. & DiGiovanna, S. (1999) “Conclusion:  Reflections on Comparisons across Countries”, In A. Markusen, Y.S. Lee, and S. DiGiovanna (eds.) Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis, pp.335-358.

Journal Articles

• •	Lee, Y.S. & Choi, E.K. (2022) "Transnational Corporation Decoupling and Local Government Capacity", Journal of Governmental Studies, 28(2): 59-100.
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee and Sun-Hee Kim (2016) “A Critical Review of the Role of Transnational Corporation in Regional Development: Focusing on the Social Overhead Capital Investment Case of Macquarie”, Korean Policy Studies Review, 25(2): 363-389 (in Korean).
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee and Don-Soon Lee (2015) “Revisiting the Global Production Networks Debates”, Space and Society, 25(2): 14-51 (in Korean).
  
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee (2015) “Editorial Review: Globalization and Regional Development”, Space and Society, 25(2): 5-13 (in Korean).
  
  •	Kim, H.J., Lee, Y.S. & Hwang, H.R. (2014) “Regionalization of Planned S&T Parks: The Case of Daedeok S&T Park in Daejeon, South Korea”, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(5): 843-862.
  
  •	Phelps,	N.A., Kim, H.J., Lee, Y.S. & Valler, D.C. (2014) “Guest Editorial: Science and the City: Comparative Perspectives on Science and Technology Parks”, Urban Agglomeration and Spatial Planning, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(5): 777-783.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S., Heo, I.H. & Kim, H.J. (2014) “The Role of the State as an inter-scalar mediator in Globalizing Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Industry Development in South Korea”, Review of International Political Economy, 21(1): 102-129. 
  
  •	Coe, N.M. & Lee, Y.S. (2013) “We've learnt how to be local’: the deepening territorial embeddedness of Samsung–Tesco in South Korea”, Journal of Economic Geography, 13(2): 327-356.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Hwang, E.J. (2012) “Global Urban Frontiers through Policy Transfer?: Unpacking Seoul's Creative City Programs", Urban Studies, 49(13): 2888 – 2908.
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee and Jung-In Choi (2012) “Singapore’s Creative City Policy Revisited”, Space and Society, 22 (2): 5-37 (in Korean).
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Shin, H.R. (2012) “Negotiating the Polycentric City-region: Developmental State Politics of New Town Development in the Seoul Capital Region”, Urban Studies, 49(6): 1333-1355. 0042098011411947, first published (online) on July 4, 2011.
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee and In-hye Heo (2010) “The Role of the State  in the Formation and Operation  of Industry Cluster: The Case of the Asan-Tangjung LCD Industry Agglomeratin”, Korean Policy Studies Review, 19(1): 245-278 (in Korean).
  
  •	Yong-Sook Lee and In-hye Heo (2009) “The Emerging Paju LCD Industry Agglomeration: The Analysis of the Role of the Major Actors”, Space and Society, 32: 168-208, Winter (In Korean). 
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Phelps, N.A. (2009) "Guest Editorial: Regional Competitiveness in the Knowledge-based Economy: Comparative Policy Perspectives", Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27(4): 571-573.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S., Tee, Y.C. & Kim, D.W. (2009) “Endogenous versus Exogenous Development?: A Comparative Study of Biotechnology Industry Cluster Policy in South Korea and Singapore”, Environment and Planning C : Government and Policy, 27(4): 612-631.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2009), “Balanced Development in Globalizing Regional Development?: Unpacking the New Regional Policy in South Korea”, Regional Studies, 43(3): 353-367.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Tee, Y.C. (2009), “Reprising the role the developmental state in cluster development : The biomedical industry in Singapore”, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 30: 86-97.
  
  •	Coe, N.M. & Lee, Y.S. (2006) “The Strategic Localization of Transnational Retailers: The Case of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea", Economic Geography, 82(1): 61-88.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2006) "Regional Economic Development in the Global Era: A Comparison between the Cluster Approach and the Global Production Network Approach", Economy and Society, 69(spring): 227-254 (in Korean).
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. & Yeoh, B.S.A. (2004) "Introduction: Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting ", Urban Studies, 41(12): 2295-2301 (Special Issue on Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting).
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2004) "Debt Restructuring and the Politics of Exclusion: A Case Study of the Daewoo Motor Bupyeong Plants in Incheon, South Korea", Urban Studies, 41(12): 2395-2414.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2003) “Lean Production Systems, Labor Unions, and Greenfield Locations of Korean New Assembly Plants and their Suppliers.”, Economic Geography, 79(3): 321-339.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2003) “Regional Innovation Systems Reconsidered: For what and for whom?”, Trends and Perspectives, 59: 141-182 (in Korean).
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (2002) “Business Networks and Suppliers’ Locational Choice.”, Environment and Planning A, 34: 1001-1020.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (1999) “Labor Shock and the Diversity of Transnational Corporate Strategy in Export Processing Zones.”, Growth and Change, 30(3): 337-65.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (1993) “Industrial Subcontracting and Labor Movement: The Korean Automotive Industry,”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 23(1): 24-40.
  
  •	Lee, Y.S. (1990) “Industrial Subcontracting and its Impacts on Labor-Capital relations,”, Journal of Korean Social History, 26 (in Korean).
  
  •	Cho, S.K.  & Lee, Y.S. (1989) “The New Labor Process and the Automotive Industry in Korea: Problems in the Application of Just-In-Time Production System,”, Korean Journal of Sociology, 23 Winter (in Korean).
  

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

• •	2009.3. Globalizing Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Clusters in South Korea. Association of American Geographers 105th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
  
  •	2007.4. Balanced Development in Globalizing Regional Development?: Unpacking the New Regional Policy in South Korea. Association of American Geographers 103rd Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California, 
  
  •	2006.3. Cluster as a Policy Panacea?: Critical reflections on the innovative cluster policies in South Korea. Association of American Geographers 102nd Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.
  
  •	2005.8. Neoliberalizing regional policies: Critical reflections on cluster and innovation policies in South Korea. Centennial Conference of NUS, Singapore
  
  •	2004. Upgrading the Auto Clusters in a Globalizing Context: A Global Production Networks perspective. March 2004. 100th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Philadelphia, PA
  
  •	2000.11. The Determinants and Effects of Overseas Direct Investment: The South Korean Auto Industry. 2000 ACSP Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
  
  <Others>
  
  •	1997. Planning for Successful Transition: the Closure of Lockheed Martin Astro Space(with Ann Markusen and Sean DiGiovanna). Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Rutgers University
  
  •	2002. Planning for a Better Urban Living Environment in Asia. The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (Nov 2002 Vol. 23, No. 3)
  
  •	2001. The Globalization of Business Firms from Emerging Economies. Economic Geography 77(2):202-204
  
  •	1996. Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S.. Journal of the American Planning Association 62(1): 139