About Jimmy Lee
Lived 1975 – 2021 (aged 45–46). Jimmy Lee was an American journalist.
Jimmy Lee (1972–2021) was a Korean American journalist.
He served as managing editor of KoreAm Journal from 1999 to 2007.
Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, and immigrated to California at the age of 11 months with his family. He was raised in Orange County, California. He graduated from UCLA in 1994 with a degree in Geography.
He had worked at the Korean Youth and Community Center in Los Angeles.
Honors and awards In 2004, he was the runner-up of a New California Media Award for his article O Sister, Here Art Thou.
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American journalist
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Jimmy Lee was born in 1975.
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Jimmy Lee died in 2021.
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Jimmy Lee was a journalist.
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