Historical Research on the Road to Self-fortification
Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, Chairman Lee became commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduating from the Korea Military Academy. He acquired a master's degree in 1972 for studying China's administrative system at Seoul National University's Graduate School of Public administration. In 1981, he became elected as a member of the national assembly to represent the boroughs Jongno-gu and Jung-gu, and was repeatedly elected to serve three more terms as an assemblyman. He has served as head of the Fifteenth Commission on Presidential Transition, director of the Agency for National Security Planning in 1998, advisor to the New Millennium Democratic Party in 2000, and director of the International Business Center Forum in 2010. He currently serves as head of the Promotion Committee for Building the Korean Provisional Government Memorial Hall, chairman of the Woodang Scholarship Foundation, director of the Woodang Memorial Hall, head of the Yeocheon Hong Beom-do Commemoration Society, and a board member of the Korea Forum for Progress. Among the books he authored are the two-volume "The Woods are not Silent," "Ringing the Nation's Bell, Building the Nation's Tower," and "Reform and Moderatism."
Lee Jong-chan (Chairman, Woodang Scholarship Foundation)