Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica 中央研究院近代史研究所

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Juyoung Lee

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Assistant research fellow

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Juyoung Lee is a Cold War historian of transnational East Asia whose research interest lies in the history of science and technology, diplomatic history, development studies, and labor history.
She is currently working on her first book manuscript, which examines the crucial yet often overlooked role of social and emotional labor carried out by non-state actors in shaping bureaucratic decision-making. Focusing on development cooperation between the US and East Asia during the post–World War II period, her study reveals how seemingly mundane interactions guided bureaucratic decisions and shaped large infrastructure projects. By analyzing personal letters, diaries, correspondence, and memoirs, she shows that the political and diplomatic interconnections behind the infrastructure projects of Cold War Korea and Taiwan—including their ties to the US and Japan—are visible only through investigating subtle networks not documented in official records.
Her research interests also extend to the history of agricultural technology. She has published on South Korean farmers’ “invisible” labor behind the use of chemical fertilizers in History of Science.

Education

Ph.D. in History of Science, Johns Hopkins University
Master of Science in Science and Technology Studies, Seoul National University

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Resumé

2024-25　 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2015-2018 Researcher, Science and Technology Policy Institute, South Korea

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Research fields

Cold War history; History of Modern East Asia; History of technology; Development studies; Labor history; Agricultural history

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Journal articles

Juyoung Lee, 2023, “Preparatory Labor for Chemical Fertilizer: Rural Modernity and the Practices of South Korean Farmers in the 1960s”, History of Science, 61(4), 588-607. (SCIE, SSCI, A&HCI) (IF: 1.1; SCI ranking: 28.8%; SSCI ranking: 44.4%)
Juyoung Lee, Hyojung Jung*，2017，〈한국 과학기술계 기술혁신 논의의 흐름과 변화 : 한국과학기술단체총연합회의 과학과 기술을 중심으로, 1968-2017〉(Trend Analysis of the Technological Innovation Context in South Korea using Network Analysis: Focusing on Science and Technology Published by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, 1968-2017)，《기술혁신학회지》，20(4), 1015-1035。(KCI)
Lee Juyoung, Choi Sumin*，2016，〈미국과 일본의 사례를 통해서 본 재난 분야 정부 R&D의 특징〉(A Study on the Disaster Management R&D of the US and Japan)，《한국안전학회지》，31(3), 123-129。(KCI)
Sumin Choi , Lee Juyoung*，2016，〈재난유형과 관리단계로 본 국내 재난안전 R&D 현황 및 시사점〉(A Study on National Disaster Safety R&D - Focusing on the Disaster Types and Management Phases)，《한국방재학회 논문집》，16(3), 87-94。(KCI)
Juyoung Lee，2015，〈한국의 제 1차 국토종합개발계획 수립을 통해서 본 발전국가론 '계획 합리성' 비판〉(Making of the Developmental State’s ‘Plan Rational’: The Case of South Korea’s First Comprehensive National Physical Development Plan, 1963～1971)，《공간과 사회》，25(3), 11-54。(KCI)

Book review

Juyoung Lee, 2025, “Review of Honghong Tinn, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 19(4), 572-575.
Juyoung Lee, 2024, “Book Review: Kim Geun Bae, Lee Eunkyong, Sun You-Jeong 김근배 이은경 선유정, The Birth of Scientists in the Republic of Korea: Biographies in Korean Science and Technology, vol. Natural Sciences 대한민국 과학자의 탄생: 한국 과학기술 인물 열전 — 자연과학 편 (Seoul: Serobooks, 2024), 752 pp.”, The Korean Journal for the History of Science (한국과학사학회지), 46(2), 431-433.