Dr Hee Sook LEE-NIINIOJA is a scholar/journalist/artist/designer. Being an Asian pioneer student in Scandinavia (1975), she has degrees (BA journalism: South Korea; BA & MA art-design: Norway; MA visual communication: USA; PhD architecture: UK), besides theology, literature, language. Specialising in comparisons of Hindu-Buddhist/Christian/Islamic architecture, cultural heritage, semiotic texts-images, she has executed monographs, Proceedings, articles, peer-reviews, Goethe exhibitions, teaching-lectures at universities/institutes/NGOs worldwide. She received the Order of Civil Merit from the South Korean President for humanitarian work. After accomplishing the Finnish Diplomatic Corps (family-member), she engages at ICOMOS-ICICH(Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage/President 2017-20), International Press Centre Helsinki, Water Museum Network. https://heesooklee-niinioja.weebly.com/

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