Gwangju University Professor Yonggyo Lee Publishes Commentary Collection on 200 Works Written Over 38 Years

Professor Yonggyo Lee, Gwangju University.

Gwangju University announced on May 8 that Professor Yonggyo Lee of the Graduate School of Social Welfare has published "People Create Books and Books Raise People (Human and Welfare)," a collection of commentaries on 200 monographs and reports he has written as a researcher specializing in social welfare studies.

The book documents when and for what purpose each work was written over the past 38 years, as well as their content and impact on society. The author prepared the manuscript with the mindset of writing a "historical record." All events and individuals mentioned in the book are based on facts, and the roles of those individuals at the time are recorded. Some of the people are deceased, while others are still living, but the author aimed to record the facts without alteration. Additionally, the more than 1,000 co-authors who wrote books with him are organized in a "name index."

The cover of "People Create Books and Books Raise People."

This demonstrates that many of these individuals not only interacted through books but also formed academic communities. To ensure fact-based writing, the author cited contemporary writings, exchanged emails, newspaper articles, works written by others, and website content. This was possible because he established the "Welfare Community Dreaming with Citizens - Korea Welfare Education Institute" on January 1, 2000, and created the online community "Welfare Community Dreaming with Citizens" on July 23, 2002, where he preserved almost all documents.

Since June 1986, Professor Lee has conducted welfare policy research at the Korea Welfare Policy Institute. Beginning in July 1989, he researched youth welfare at the Korea Youth Research Institute and developed a series of publications for youth leaders, thereby establishing the field of youth studies. Since March 1997, as a professor at Gwangju University, he has authored textbooks for social welfare studies, such as Digital Social Welfare (Studies) Introduction and Digital Youth Welfare, opening the "digital welfare era."