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Draft:Taejun Lee
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Taejun Lee
이태준
Born1977 (age 48–49)
South Korea
Other nameTaejun (David) Lee
OccupationsProfessor, public policy scholar
Known forFounder and director of the Open Government & Innovation (OGI) Lab; contributions to OECD reports on trust in government and public communication
Academic background
Alma materChung-Ang University (BA)
University of Texas at Austin (MA)
University of Tennessee (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplinePublic policy, communication studies
Sub-discipline
Digital government, AI governance, public communication
InstitutionsKDI School of Public Policy and Management

Taejun Lee (Korean: 이태준; born 1977), also known as Taejun (David) Lee, is a South Korean public policy scholar. He is a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong, South Korea, and the founder and director of the school's Open Government & Innovation (OGI) Lab.[1] His research concerns digital government, artificial intelligence governance, public communication, trust in government, and cultural and creative industries.[1]

Lee contributed to two OECD publications on public governance — Understanding the Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Korea (2018) and the OECD Report on Public Communication (2021)[2][3] — and led the study commissioned by the Archdiocese of Seoul estimating the economic effects of World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, which was reported by South Korean national media.[4][5]

Early life and education

Lee was born in 1977.[6] He completed military service as a Tactical Control Officer in the Republic of Korea Air Force, attaining the rank of lieutenant (2000–2003).[7]

He received a bachelor's degree in advertising and public relations from Chung-Ang University in Seoul,[6] a Master of Arts in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, and a PhD in communication from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2011.[7] At Tennessee he received the college's outstanding graduate student research award in 2010.[7]

Career

Lee began his academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (2010–2012). He returned to South Korea in 2012 as an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Kookmin University in Seoul (2012–2015).[1][7]

In 2015 he joined the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, a graduate school affiliated with the Korea Development Institute (KDI), as an associate professor; he was promoted to full professor with tenure in 2020.[7] Since 2016 he has concurrently served as an adjunct research fellow at KDI,[7] and since 2023 as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of AI Policy and Strategy at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology.[7]

In 2019, Lee founded the Open Government & Innovation (OGI) Lab at the KDI School, which conducts applied research on digital governance, artificial intelligence policy, public communication, and innovation ecosystems.[1]

Research and policy work

Trust in government and public communication

From 2015 Lee participated in a joint research project between KDI and the OECD on trust in government in South Korea.[6] He co-authored (with Soonhee Kim) a chapter of the resulting OECD publication, Understanding the Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Korea (2018).[2] In November 2018 he presented the study's survey methodology at a KDI–OECD joint conference on government trust in Seoul.[8] In interviews with South Korean media in 2018, Lee discussed the study's findings and argued for reforms of government communication modelled in part on the United Kingdom's Government Communication Service.[6][9]

He subsequently contributed a chapter to the OECD Report on Public Communication: The Global Context and the Way Forward (2021).[3]

COVID-19 and digital governance

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lee researched public communication and digital governance aspects of crisis response. In 2020 he was a presenter at an international videoconference on "Public Communication for COVID-19 Response and Recovery", organised by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the KDI School with participation from OECD policy analysts and Finland's Ministry of Finance.[10] His co-authored case study of South Korea's digital governance during the pandemic appeared in Public Performance & Management Review in 2022.[11]

According to his curriculum vitae, Lee served as a policy advisor to the Presidential Office of Korea on COVID-19 crisis communication (2020–2021), as a consultant to Malaysia's Ministry of Health on risk communication (2020–2021), and as an executive advisor to the AuroraAI programme of Finland's Ministry of Finance (2020–2021).[7]

International advisory roles

Lee has served as a project consultant to the OECD Directorate for Public Governance since 2016 and, since 2023, as a consultant and advisor to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) on ICT development and artificial intelligence policy.[7] He has also advised the British Embassy in Seoul, the British Council, the Embassy of Finland in Seoul, and the government of Quebec on innovation ecosystems and creative economy cooperation (2021–2023).[7]

World Youth Day 2027 economic study

Lee led a KDI School research team that assessed the prospective economic effects of World Youth Day 2027, to be held in Seoul. The study, commissioned by the event's local organising committee, estimated production-inducement effects of about 11.37 trillion won, value-added effects of about 1.59 trillion won, and roughly 24,700 jobs created. The findings were presented at the event's launch ceremony at Myeongdong Cathedral in July 2024 and reported by Yonhap News Agency and other national media.[4][12] The estimates were subsequently cited in public discussion of the event's preparation.[5] Lee also serves as a lay advisor to the event's special planning group.[7]

Publications

As of 2026, Lee's faculty profile lists 22 articles indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, 17 in Scopus, and 41 in the Korea Citation Index.[1] His work has appeared in journals including Government Information Quarterly, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Journal of Health Communication, Public Performance & Management Review, European Journal of Political Research, and Organizational Dynamics.[1]

Selected works

  • Lee, Taejun; Lee, Byung-Kwan; Lee-Geiller, Seulki (2020). "The effects of information literacy on trust in government websites: Evidence from an online experiment". International Journal of Information Management 52. doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102098
  • Lee, Taejun David; Lee-Geiller, Seulki; Lee, Byung-Kwan (2021). "A validation of the modified democratic e-governance website evaluation model". Government Information Quarterly 38(4). doi:10.1016/j.giq.2021.101616
  • Lee-Geiller, Seulki; Lee, Taejun (2022). "How Does Digital Governance Contribute to Effective Crisis Management? A Case Study of Korea's Response to COVID-19". Public Performance & Management Review 45(4). doi:10.1080/15309576.2022.2053729
  • Lee, Eun Hee; Lee, Taejun (David); Lee, Byung-Kwan (2022). "Understanding the role of new media literacy in the diffusion of unverified information during the COVID-19 pandemic". New Media & Society. doi:10.1177/14614448221130476
  • Lee, Taejun (2021). "Communicating in an evolving and fast-paced digital age". In OECD Report on Public Communication: The Global Context and the Way Forward. Paris: OECD Publishing.
  • Kim, Soonhee; Lee, Taejun (2018). Chapter 6 in Understanding the Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Korea. Paris: OECD Publishing.

Awards

Lee received official commendations from South Korea's Minister of the Interior and Safety (2021) and Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (2019), and the KDI School's best researcher award in 2017 and 2020.[7] As a doctoral student he won the American Academy of Advertising's dissertation proposal award (2010),[7] and he received an Emerald Literati Network outstanding paper award for an article in the Journal of Services Marketing (2013).[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Lee, Taejun". KDI School of Public Policy and Management. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  2. ^ a b Understanding the Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Korea (PDF). OECD Publishing. 2018. doi:10.1787/9789264308992-en. ISBN 978-92-64-30899-2.
  3. ^ a b OECD Report on Public Communication: The Global Context and the Way Forward. OECD Publishing. 2021. doi:10.1787/22f8031c-en.
  4. ^ a b Lee, Se-won (28 July 2024). ""교황 방한하는 2027 세계청년대회 생산유발효과 11조원 넘을듯"" [2027 World Youth Day, with papal visit, expected to generate over 11 trillion won in production effects] (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  5. ^ a b "서울 WYD, 올림픽 버금가는 공익 행사…"사회적 공감대 형성 절실"" [Seoul WYD, a public-interest event on the scale of the Olympics — "social consensus urgently needed"]. Catholic Times (in Korean). 1 December 2025. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  6. ^ a b c d Choi, Hoon-gil (17 December 2018). ""OECD 평균 미달 韓 정부 신뢰도, 영국처럼 개혁하자"" ["Korea's trust in government falls below the OECD average — let's reform like the UK"]. Edaily (in Korean). Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Curriculum Vitae: Taejun (David) Lee" (PDF). KDI School of Public Policy and Management. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  8. ^ "KDI-OECD 정부신뢰 국제컨퍼런스" [KDI–OECD International Conference on Trust in Government]. National Knowledge Information System (NKIS) (in Korean). Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  9. ^ "이태준 KDI 국제정책대학원 교수 "영국 정부, 가짜뉴스 대응팀 상설 조직 구성"" [Professor Taejun Lee of the KDI School: "The UK government has set up a permanent counter-fake-news team"]. Financial News (in Korean). 25 October 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  10. ^ "국제 화상토론회 – 코로나19 대응과 회복을 위한 공공소통" [International videoconference – Public communication for COVID-19 response and recovery]. KTV (in Korean). Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  11. ^ Lee-Geiller, Seulki; Lee, Taejun (2022). "How Does Digital Governance Contribute to Effective Crisis Management? A Case Study of Korea's Response to COVID-19". Public Performance & Management Review. 45 (4). doi:10.1080/15309576.2022.2053729.
  12. ^ ""경제효과 11조 예상"…2027 세계청년대회 의미는?" ["11 trillion won in expected economic effects" — the significance of World Youth Day 2027]. EBS News (in Korean). 29 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2026.


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