Seulki Lee

South Korea/Indonesia

Seulki Lee is a South Korean journalist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She has worked in Jakarta, Kathmandu, and New Delhi as a correspondent for East Asian media houses. She has covered stories on women’s struggle to cope with extreme weather changes in outlying areas of Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Kashmir and India’s Northeast region. Her work can be found in mainstream media outlets like Tempo English in Indonesia and Hankyoreh21 in South Korea. For the fellowship programme, Seulki wrote a story on a palm oil plantation owned by Korean company POSCO Daewoo in Papua, Indonesia that has destroyed the livelihoods of local communities there. Her second story is on women-led activism to mitigate climate change in South Korea. It shows how women have emerged as key players in the anti-nuclear movement because of their concerns about radioactive contamination.