Eun-Jeung Lee is since 2008 professor at the FU Berlin, Director of the Institute of Korean Studies. She studied political science at the Ewha University, Korea and the University of Göttingen. She got her PhD in 1993 at the university Göttingen and finished her “Habilitation” in 2001 at the University of Halle, Germany. She taught at Universities in Korea, Japan and Germany. She is a member of Academy of Science and Humanity in Berlin-Brandenburg (f. Prussian Academy of Art and Science), and Academia Europea. In 2019 she has received the Order of Civil Merit, Peony Medal from the Republic of Korea for her research and education activities in the field of unification and transformation and in 2013 Mirok Lee Price for her contribution for German-Korean relation. She has published nine monographs and more than 100 papers, including Sŏwŏn, die konfuzianischen Privatakademien in Korea (Frankfurt a.M. 2016), Ostasien denken (Baden-Baden 2014), Korea im demokratischen Aufschwung (Leipzig 2005) “Anti-Europa”. Die Geschichte der Rezeption des Konfuzianismus und der konfuzianischen Gesellschaft seit der frühen Aufklärung (Münster 2003) and Konfuzianismus und Kapitalismus (Münster 1997). In 2018 she has completed the collection of documents on German unification in 30 volumes.