Lee Sook-jin

Lee Sook-jin
이숙진
President of Sports Ethics Center
In office
5 August 2020 – 19 March 2021
MinisterPark Yang-woo
Hwang Hee
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLee Eun-jeong
Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family
In office
13 June 2017 – 7 February 2019
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Prime MinisterLee Nak-yeon
MinisterChung Hyun-back
Jin Sun-mee
Succeeded byKim Hee-kyung
Personal details
Born (1964-01-23) 23 January 1964 (age 60)
Gwangju, South Korea
Alma materEwha Womans University
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.

Lee Sook-jin (Korean: 이숙진; born 23 January 1964[1]) is a South Korean women's right activist who previously served as the inaugural president of newly created Sports Ethics Center of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism[2] from 2020 to 2021 and President Moon Jae-in's first Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family from 2017 to 2019.

Before appointed as Vice Minister, Lee was a director of Korea Foundation for Women from 2016.[3] From 2013 to 2015 she led [[Seoul Metropolitan Government|Seoul's own Foundation of Women and Family. From 2010 to 2012 she worked as a researcher and research professor at Catholic University of Daegu.[4] She was previously a researcher at the Incheon Institute, an Incheon's think tank.[5] In 2010 she founded gender studies research centre.

In August 2020 Lee was appointed by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo as the first head of newly created Sports Ethics Center.[2] In response to growing number of reported cases of human rights violations in sports community, the National Sports Promotion Act was amended in February 2020 to establish this center as the central organisation under the Ministry to deal with any human rights violations of athletes from bullying to sexual harassment and conduct relevant investigations. The Act also established this centre independent of any sports associations so it can protect the victims and request the Sports Minister to order sports associations to take disciplinary actions on those responsible upon investigations.[6][7] In March 2021 Lee resigned from the post highlighting systematic inability to fulfill the Centre's mandate as most of its personnel deployed are administrators not investigators.[8][9]

Moreover, Lee spent her entire career in public service under President Roh Moo-hyun from 2003 to 2008 before recruited by President Moon Jae-in as the deputy head of Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in 2017. From 2003 to 2005 she worked as an administrator at the Office of the President and in 2007 she was promoted to its one of secretaries. From 2006 to 2009 she also worked as associate professor at Ministry of Health and Welfare-funded Korea Human Resource Institute for Health and Welfare.[4]

Lee holds three degrees from Ewha Womans University - a bachelor in communications and a master's and a doctorate in women's studies.[10]

  1. ^ 신임 서울시 여성가족재단 대표이사에 이숙진 씨.
  2. ^ a b 남, 상현 (5 August 2020). "Sports Ethics Center launched". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  3. ^ [프로필] 이숙진 여성가족부 차관. Money Today [ko] (in Korean). 13 June 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b 김, 계연 (13 June 2017). 참여정부 비서관 출신 여성정책 전문가…이숙진 여가부 차관. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. ^ 이숙진 :: 네이버 인물검색. people.search.naver.com. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  6. ^ 김, 경윤 (5 August 2020). 스포츠윤리센터 출범, 스포츠계 인권침해 신고 일원화(종합). Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  7. ^ 국가법령정보센터. www.law.go.kr. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  8. ^ 이숙진 스포츠윤리센터 초대 이사장 사임... 문체부에 특단의 대책 요구. NewsPim (in Korean). 19 March 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  9. ^ 이숙진 스포츠윤리센터 이사장 공식 사임 "센터 구조적 문제 심각...특단 조치 있어야". Edaily [ko] (in Korean). 19 March 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  10. ^ [프로필]이숙진 여성가족부 차관…"국내파 여성학 전문가". 아시아경제 (in Korean). 13 June 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2020.