Joungmok Lee is a lecturer of Korean in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures with an emphasis in Korean language and linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Before he joined the EALC department at IU, he taught Korean language courses at Penn State University, Harvard University, and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa since 2012. He also taught Korean as a second language(KSL) at Seoul Women's University and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea before he came to the United States to earn his doctoral degree.