Hyunok Lee is an assistant professor at the Department of Global Public Administration in Yonsei University, Korea. She received a PhD at the department of Development Sociology, Cornell University in USA. She wrote a dissertation on cross-border marriages between Korean men and Vietnamese women, titled Political Economy of Cross Border Marriages: Economic Changes and Social Reproduction in South Korea. Her publications include "The Political Economy of Cross-Border Marriage: Economic Development and Social Reproduction in South Korea", in Feminist Economics (2012), and "Trafficking in Women? Or Multicultural Family?: Contextual Difference in Commodification of Intimacy", in Gender, Place and Culture (forthcoming).