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Jung Woo Lee

Jung Woo Lee

Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy, University of Edinburgh

My research interests lie in sport and international relations (diplomacy), sport media and communication ((post)structuralism and semiotics), and globalisation of sports.

I edited (with two co-editors) "Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (2017)"
(https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Sport-and-Politics/Bairner-Kelly-Lee/p/book/9781138792548).

I am also a founding member of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Sport (ECSS) research group (https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/rke/centres-groups/ecss).

My recent research projects include 1) The Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games and the divided Koren peninsula, and 2) East Asian geopolitics and the three sports mega-events (the 2018, 2020, and 2022 Olympics).

North Korea returns to the Olympics after eight years – eyeing more than just medals

Aug 09, 2024 18:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports

Athletes from North Korea are currently competing in the Summer Olympics for the first time in eight years. The communist state had been suspended for the 2022 Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...

2018 Winter Olympics set to begin against the backdrop of warm words and cold politics

Feb 08, 2018 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports

Mega sporting events are always heavily infused with politics, but the impending Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, have almost been buried in a geopolitical avalanche. Global tensions over North Koreas...

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