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Myo Mook Lee (Yi Myo-muk 이묘묵李卯默; 1902–1957) was a Korean educator and politician who worked as an interpreter for the American Military Government and as a diplomat for the South Korean government.
Lee was born in the Pyongyang area in 1902, the second son of Yi Su-hyŏng.[1] The exact birth date is unknown; while Lee listed his birthday as January 18, 1902 in his application to Harvard and his Boston University PhD dissertation, the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture lists it as December 9, 1902.[2] Lee attended a Methodist missionary-founded secondary school called Kwangsŏng in Pyongyang, graduating in either 1915 or 1917.[3] Myo Mook Lee then attended and graduated from Chosen Christian College (CCC; the forerunner to Yonsei University) in Seoul in 1921 or 1922 with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree.[4] After teaching briefly at Yŏngmyŏng School in Kongju, Ch’ungch’ong Province, from 1922 to 1923, Lee left for the United States, supported by the