Woojin Lee is currently a Professor in the Department of Education at Gongju National University of Education. He will be serving as a visiting professor at Ruhr University in Germany from March 1, 2024, to February 28, 2026. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Education from Gongju National University of Education and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in the History of Education and Eastern Philosophy from the Graduate School of Korean Studies at the Academy of Korean Studies. And he was selected as a next-generation Korean studies scholar, conducting his research at the University of Washington.

His Master’s thesis was titled “Choi Han-gi’s Educational Theory Based on Epistemology of Gi” and his Ph.D. dissertation focused on “Wang Yangming’s Theory of Self-Cultivation.”
His primary research interests include the intellectual history of East Asia and the history of Korean education. Recently, he has also been exploring the direction of education in the era of the climate crisis.

• Intellectual History of East Asia
• East Asian Educational History

• 2024: (To be published) 《모든 이의 공부방, 서당》 (Everyone’s Study Hall: Seodang), Sech'ang.
• 2024: “구봉 송익필의 《태극문》 탐구(A Study of Gubong Song Ik-pil's the compendium on the Supreme Ultimate)," in: Yangmyŏnghak (72), pp. 179-220.
• 2023: (with Lee Hae-jun, Kim Ja-woon, et al.) 《한국 서원의 로컬리즘 : 상주와 논산지역을 중심으로》, (Localism in Korean Seowon: Focusing on the Sangju and Nonsan Regions), Onsem.
• 2023: (with Sunghwan Cho) “주자학의 리(理)에 대한 새로운 해석 (A New Interpretation of Zhu Xi's Concept of Li),” in: Daedong Ch'ŏlhak (105), pp. 281-304.
• 2022: (with Duck-Joo Kwak, Roland Reichenbac et al.) “Korean voices from its traditional thoughts on education,” Educational Philosophy and Theory (56), pp. 7-19.
• 2022: (with An Kyŏng-sik, Kim Chong-sŏk, et al.) 《하와일록》 (Hwawilok: From Boy to Confucian Scholar—The Growth Process and Worldview of a Joseon Scholar’s Youth), Ŭnhaengnamu.
• 2021: (with Ja-woon Kim) “1765년 호계서원(虎溪書院) 《대학》(大學) 강회 연구 (A Study on the 1765 Lecture on the 'Great Learning' at Hogae Seowon),” in: Minjok Munhwa Nonch'ong (79), pp.327-367.
• 2021: “조선시대 서당교육과정에서 바라본 『동몽선습(童蒙先習)』의 의미 (The Status of Dongmong Seonseup in the Seodang Curriculum during the Joseon Dynasty),” in: Yuhak Yŏn'gu (54), pp. 41-70
• 2021: (with Deng Hongbo, Kim Ja-woon, et al.) 《동아시아 서원의 기원과 제의례의 완성》 (The Origins and Ritual Completion of East Asian Confucian Academies), Onsem.
• 2020: “왕양명의 ‘용장오도’(龍場悟道) 다시 읽기 (Reinterpreting Wang Yangming's Enlightenment at Longchang),” Yangmyŏnghak (59), pp. 5-39.
• 2020: “《학기유편》(學記類編))의 유학사적 위상 (The Status of Hakgiyupyeon in the History of Confucianism)”, Nammyŏng Hakpo (18), pp. 47-62.
• 2019: 《퇴계와의 대화》 (A Dialogue with Toegye), Yeongnam Toegye Hak Yŏn'guwon.
• 2019: “신채호의 민족에 대한 상상과 영웅 양성: 《독사신론》(讀史新論)과 영웅론을 중심으로 (Shin Chae-ho's Imagination of the Nation and the Cultivation of Heroes: Focusing on Doksa Sillon and ‘View of Heroes’),” Toegye Hak Nonjip (25), pp. 467-511.
• 2018: (with Miryang Jung) Korean Education : Educational Thought, Systems and Content, Academy of Korean Studies.