Seung-Hoon Lee

Seung-Hoon Lee joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during the 2014-15 academic year from Maeil Business Newspaper (leading economic daily in South Korea) where he serves as an economics and industry reporter.  His research interests encompass IoT (Internet of Things) impact on the future of Korea. Since 2007, more 'things or objects' have been connected to the internet than people have. In 2015, world population would be 7.2 billion, and connected devices four times larger than that. In the era of IoT, he will analyze the collision of big data and machine-to-machine connected information.  He was awarded two major media related prizes in Korea: the Grand Prize by CITIGROUP for articles on Korea's economic reform and another Grand Prize by Korea Financial Investment Association for articles on capital market crisis.  He co-authored Great Decision (2012) and Mobile Economy (2010). Lee holds an MBA from KDI School of Public Policy and Management, and a BA in business from Korea University.  He also took a special course from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.