Hyoungbae Lee joined Princeton University Library in 2008 as Princeton's first Korean Studies Librarian after he earned a master's degree in Library and Information Science at Syracuse University. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature (Linguistics concentration) from Seoul National University in South Korea. He also has a Master of Arts and an ABD in Linguistics from Yale University. Hyoungbae's scholarly interests are Korean language (phonology and morphology, more specifically) and historical linguistics.