Michelle Ye Hee Lee

@myhlee · Tokyo/Seoul · joined 30 Oct 2008

Covering Northeast Asia at @WashingtonPost. michelle.lee@washpost.com. Not here much anymore. Find me at https://t.co/q02Z9kaJIr

71 996Followers

2 035Following

12 521Posts total

10.1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views20 675this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %28.72%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.77%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	20 675	2 751	7.52×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	28.72%	9.00%	3.19×
Engagement rate	0.77%	1.65%	0.47×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

20.6K7 Apr

1.3K15 Jun

20.7K23 Jun

10M28 Jun

54.2K

4.8K26 Jul

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.57%7 Apr

1.58%15 Jun

0.39%23 Jun

0.24%28 Jun

0.77%

0.84%26 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes62.5%15 582 in total

Reposts16.0%4 002 in total

Replies9.8%2 450 in total

Quotes11.3%2 814 in total

Bookmarks0.4%96 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

North Koreans are banking, getting makeup tutorials and using period trackers on their smartphones. But these digital comforts are also tools of control by the regime. See what it’s like to use a North Korean smartphone under Kim Jong Un: (gift link) https://t.co/Y5y5nOBqMM htt 4.8K views · 18 likes · 19 reposts · 2 replies 26 Jul 2026 Ouch: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s lengthy post on the World Cup team’s failure to advance to the round of 32 calls the team leadership (i.e., coach) “incompetent,” blames mismanagement, calls on the government to investigate and push for sports administration reform. 54.2K views · 345 likes · 54 reposts · 12 replies 28 Jun 2026 최휘영 장관님과 관련 공무원 여러분 애쓰셨습니다. 저도 전임 명예 프로축구단장이자 심정적 붉은악마로서 예상밖 결과에 당황을 넘어 황당함을 느낍니다. 결국 인사가 만사임이 다시 한번 증명됐습니다. 능력보다 네편내편을 더 중시해 무능한 사람을 지휘관으로 선발하면 결과는 불보듯 10M views · 15.1K likes · 3.8K reposts · 2.4K replies 28 Jun 2026 The Japanese get the least sleep of all major countries, so much so that there’s a thriving market to help people fall asleep faster & stay asleep longer. Our multimedia story on Japan’s billion-dollar quest to help a sleep-starved nation rest: (gift link) https://t.co/kAAQ2D 20.7K views · 48 likes · 24 reposts · 6 replies 23 Jun 2026 It's 2026, and people are still doing this? https://t.co/wEqYyqiDMs 1.3K views · 7 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 15 Jun 2026 New: Our deep-dive into life in Hyesan, a North Korean border city close to China, to learn how the few freedoms North Koreans enjoyed have vanished since the pandemic. The Post partnered with @API_official @ishimarujiro to reach three Hyesan residents. https://t.co/2XyBP1wIvJ 20.6K views · 48 likes · 61 reposts · 7 replies 07 Apr 2025