Sakhalin photographer Ye-sik Lee (photo reporter for Saekoryo Shimbun) received the Achievement Award from Governor Valery Limarenko of Sakhalin on the Russian Press Day.

According to the president of Sakhalin Saekory Shimbun Bae Wiktoria, "Reporter Ye-sik Lee has been working as a photographer for the Sakhalin Newspaper since 1989."

Reporter Lee Ye-sik is a second-generation Korean born in Sakhalin in 1949. His father was brought to Sakhalin for forced labor in 1943. After graduating from university in Sakhalin, he has been working as a freelance photographer since 1973. Since 2002, he has held five photo exhibitions in Seoul and Sapporo, Japan, and has been introducing works focusing on the lives of Sakhalin compatriots through solo exhibitions in Sakhalin. In addition to the exhibition five years ago, Lee Ye-sik's photo book 'Return' (Nunbit Publishing Company) was released.

 Reporter Lee Ye-sik said, "I've been thinking about publishing a photo book for many years, but I'm so happy to have my first photo book with this exhibition."

 Born in Sakhalin, Lee Ye-sik is an artist representing Koreans in Sakhalin, which contains the lives and fields of Sakhalin compatriots for more than 50 years from the days of freelance.

The biography of Professor Yesik Lee is as follows.

Lee E-Sik

Born 1949 in Makarov, Sakhalin

Graduated from Sakhalin Wafurushevo High School

He studied at Novosibirsk University of Architecture and Communication,

He taught drafting at the Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Technical School.

Freelance photojournalist in the Sakhalin state press since 1973

 1989-Present working as a photojournalist for the New Korea Newspaper

1997 Chekhov Prize. International Internet site photo contest award

2002 Solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea and Sapporo, Japan

2003 Solo exhibition on the theme of "Korean Life in Sakhalin" in Osaka, Japan Solo exhibition in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin, 2003-2009

2017 Lee Ye-sik photo exhibition 'Return' (Busan 40-Step Cultural Center Exhibition Room)

2018 Lee Ye-sik Photo Exhibition (Sakhalin History Museum)