Euna Lee

Lee was born and raised in South Korea, and moved to the United States in order to attend Academy of Art University, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Broadcasting. She graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2012. She is married to actor Michael Saldate; they have a daughter, Hana.

On August 4, 2009, Bill Clinton visited North Korea in an attempt to free Lee and fellow journalist Laura Ling. The North Korean government pardoned both Lee and Ling after meeting with Clinton that day. It was also said that the equipment and materials they used for their interviews were left behind in North Korea and that information about defectors and human rights activists who helped them in their interviews was obtained by the North Korean authorities, putting them in danger. Human rights activists in South Korea accused Lee and Ling of placing North Korean refugees in danger through their actions.

In 2011, Lee and Ling received the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

• Lee, Euna; Dickey, Lisa (2010). The World is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea – a Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0307-716132.

• 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea
• List of foreign nationals detained in North Korea
• Han Park

• Euna Lee reunite with family Archived January 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine^{[dead link]}
• Journalist Euna Lee at 백지연의 피플Inside