Lee Jeong-Ho is a non-resident James A. Kelly research fellow at Pacific Forum. He is a journalist who worked at Radio Free Asia, Bloomberg News, South China Morning Post, and News1 Korea in Seoul and Washington DC. He believes that the free flow of information is essential to democracy, as it empowers citizens through the dissemination of knowledge.
With academic experiences in South Korea, Australia, and the UK, and having served in the South Korean Air Force, he transitioned from being a military officer to journalism and research. He is also the coauthor of the novel Two Sides of a Lie.