Professor Sang Min Lee is a faculty member specializing in School Counseling at Korea University. He completed his undergraduate studies in Education at Hanyang University and earned his Ph.D. in School Counseling from the University of Florida. Prior to his current position, he served as a faculty member in School Counseling at the University of Arkansas.
His research primarily focuses on stress, burnout, and various aspects of school counseling. In recognition of his outstanding work, he received the Briggs-Pine Outstanding Research Award in 2007. Since 2016, he has been continuously honored with Korea University's Seoktap Research Award, an accolade granted exclusively to the top 3% of researchers at the institution for seven consecutive years. In 2019, he received the Korean Counseling Psychologist Award from the Korean Counseling Psychological Association, an honor bestowed upon scholars with significant lifetime research contributions. In 2022, he earned both the Best Research Paper Award from the Korean Counseling Association and the prestigious Fulbright Award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, thus becoming a Fulbright Scholar.
Professor Lee has published over 150 scholarly papers in internationally recognized SSCI-indexed journals, such as the Journal of Counseling and Development, Stress and Health, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, Journal of Employment Counseling, and Journal of Career Development. His research projects have continuously received funding from the BK Project, SSK Project, Collaborative Research Projects, New Researcher Projects, and Mid-Career Researcher Projects of the National Research Foundation of Korea, as well as from various governmental and corporate institutions such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Justice, Samsung, and Hyundai.
Recently, his research interests have expanded into socially relevant areas, including counseling services for victims of humidifier disinfectants, metaverse-based psychological counseling services, monitoring-based counseling, and legislative frameworks for psychological counseling, demonstrating his commitment to addressing social issues in Korea through impactful research.