Wooyoung Lee

Correspondent, Seoul

Wooyoung Lee is a correspondent based in MLex’s Seoul office, South Korea, covering antitrust, privacy and data security, mergers and acquisitions and financial services. Wooyoung has more than a decade of experience in journalism, public policy and research. She has worked and written for news outlets including The Korea Herald, Al Jazeera International, Bloomberg BNA, Monocle, among others.

She worked as a foreign service officers for policy and research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. She holds a BA in Linguistics from Kyunghee University and an MSc from the Sociology department of the London School of Economics and Political Science.