Seungjoo Lee is an assistant professor at the Institute of Iberoamerican Studies at Busan University of Foreign Studies. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas with her doctoral dissertation that explores the cinematic representation of economic crises in Argentina, Greece, and South Korea. Her most recent publication is a book chapter “Ética y política en festivales de cine: Retos nacionales y vínculos transnacionales,” in K-cine y k-drama desbordados, eds. Woo Suk-kyun, Bárbara Bavoleo, and Choi Jin-ok (Santiago de Chile: Ril Editores, 2024). Currently, she is writing an article on three perspectives towards the construction of the Panama Canal between the 1900s and 1950s based on Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904), la Operación Soberanía in 1958, and different versions of Cucarachita Mandinga, a widespread folktale in Central America.