IlSoo Lee, a writer, curator, and lecturer, guides the public to experience intellectual pleasure as well as emotional healing through works of art. She has been director of Hanako Gallery and worked as chief curator for the broadcaster SBS. A curator of several exhibitions, she always asks how aesthetic activities in a certain space can benefit the lives of its viewers. She has given lectures on art management at universities and graduate schools. She also has lectured on art and humanities and run a humanities reading academy at the National Library and at city libraries.

She has published 13 books, including Small but Strong Instruments of a Curator, An Enthusiastic Curator, A Guide for Visiting Museums, People’s Lives in Old Paintings, and Invitation to the Studios of Artists.