Chung-Myun Lee

Chung-Myun Lee was a professor in the Department of Geography from 1972 to 2002. Professor Lee received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Michigan in 1961 after completion of degrees at Seoul National University. He specialized in land use analysis and planning, economic geography and the geography of Asia with technical expertise in photogrammetry and aerial photo interpretation. In his long career he received academic appointments at several universities in the U.S., Malaysia, Japan and Korea.

Professor Lee’s research and teaching merged theoretical and conceptual geography with technical analysis. He read and wrote in five languages with speaking competency in four, publishing dozens of papers and books. In Professor Lee’s later years, he researched and published books about ARIRANG, a Korean folk song, the diffusion of Korean culture, and foreign migration in Korea. He was performing field research in Siberia into his late 80s.