About the CST

Hee-Jeong Lee

Hee-Jeong Lee is Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at Kongju National University in South Korea. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her research interests focus on culture and civil society. Recent publications include “Young People’s Perspectives on Income Inequality: Focusing on Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Perception of Meritocracy” in Korean Journal of Sociology (2022), “Boundary Tension and Reconstruction Credit Information Crises and the Civil Sphere in Korea” in The Civil Sphere in East Asia (2019) and “The Tension between Cultural Codes in South Korea: The Case of the Electronic Identification Card” in Cultural Sociology (2018).