Dr. June-Young Lee is a news anchor, communication lecturer, and commercial pilot with a background in broadcast journalism. He began his journalism career as a city desk reporter with KNN in Busan, Korea, in 2011. Also, he produced and hosted an investigative reporting program, ‘Into the World with June-Young Lee,’ covering illegal oil sales, mobile business touting, useless bike paths, etc. 

After two years, he moved to Channel A in Seoul, Korea, and worked as a city desk reporter. His investigations focused on government and business corruption. He joined the Dong-Ah Daily Newspaper & Channel A task force team for cabinet candidate verification and reported on the moral hazard of candidates. He also produced a series of reports on tax evasion linked to former presidents of Korea: Doo-Hwan Chun & Tae-Woo Roh, and leaders of conglomerates such as CJ and SK. As a business desk reporter, Dr. Lee had written about safety issues of airlines in Korea – Asiana Airlines ignoring safety warnings & Korean Air’s ‘nut rage’ scandal.  

Also, he worked for YTN as a city desk reporter covering the Gangnam area in Seoul and as a program director(PD) for three years. He operated the control room and directed staff for a daily news show titled ‘News Tong’ (뉴스통) as the leading producer. Since 2021, he has worked for The University of Utah Asia Campus in Songdo, Incheon, Korea, as an Assistant Professor Lecturer of Journalism at the Department of Communication. Additionally, he currently hosts a news show, ‘WE(World Economy) with June-Young Lee‘ (이준영의 WE) as a news anchor at OBS, a Korean television broadcast channel, covering Seoul and the capital area in Korea. The 50-minute weekly news show airs every Saturday at 7:55 p.m. and covers global news stories and current world economy issues with industry experts.

Dr. Lee first received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English-Korean Interpretation and Translation from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Korea. While transitioning to more professional and teaching responsibilities, he received a Master of Arts (MA) in Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at Incheon National University in Korea. Receiving the Chancellor’s Award, his Ph.D. degree examined disaster coverage in broadcast news, focusing on Itaewon Halloween crowd crush coverage.

The investigative news reporting article “People Who Want to Fly” written by Dr. Lee was the winner of the in-depth feature article contest held by HANKUK ILBO(The Korean Daily Newspaper). Also, he wrote an essay about his life at Riverside Flight School, a flight school in OK.