The 25-year hospitality executive takes up the role from September 1, bringing senior operations and people leadership experience from Seoul and Jeju.
Goeun Lee has returned to Four Seasons as Resort Manager at Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay, effective September 1, 2026.
- Goeun Lee became Resort Manager at Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay on September 1, 2026.
- Lee returns to Four Seasons after nearly a decade at Four Seasons Hotel Seoul and a subsequent General Manager role at Haevichi Hotel & Resort Jeju.
- Her responsibilities at Jimbaran Bay span resort operations, guest experience and talent development alongside General Manager Didier Jardin and the leadership team.
- Lee brings 25 years of international hospitality experience and previously studied in Indonesia before completing her hotel and travel administration degree in the United States.
(NEWS) JIMBARAN, Bali, Indonesia, 2026-Sep-16 — /Travel PR News/ — Goeun Lee has returned to Four Seasons and to Indonesia in a new senior operational role, taking over as Resort Manager at Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay from September 1, 2026.
The appointment places Lee alongside General Manager Didier Jardin and the Jimbaran Bay leadership team, with responsibility spanning resort operations, guest experience and talent development. Four Seasons announced the move on September 15, describing it as both a return to the company and a return to a country where Lee spent part of her school years.
Lee brings 25 years of international hospitality experience to Bali. Her official Four Seasons profile lists earlier roles with Sheraton, Grand Hyatt and Park Hyatt before she joined Four Seasons Hotel Seoul in 2015, shortly after that property opened.
From Seoul operations to people leadership
During almost a decade at Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, Lee progressed from Learning Manager to Director of Rooms and later Director of People & Culture. Four Seasons credits her with helping the hotel achieve its first Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star recognition, which the property retained for six consecutive years, while also guiding teams through the pandemic period.
The company says employee engagement reached a ten-year high during her tenure and staff turnover was reduced by 50 percent. Those results underpin the people-development element of her new Bali brief, alongside day-to-day resort operations and the guest experience.
Lee most recently served as General Manager of Haevichi Hotel & Resort Jeju in Korea, adding island-resort management to a career that had already covered front-office, rooms, learning and human-resources leadership. Her Four Seasons profile also notes that she earned a BA in Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
A second senior leadership addition for Four Seasons Resorts Bali
Lee’s arrival follows another leadership change at the Bali properties earlier this year. Didier Jardin was appointed General Manager of Four Seasons Resorts Bali in June 2026, overseeing both the Jimbaran Bay resort and Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan.
Jardin said Lee’s ability to connect with colleagues and develop teams was central to the appointment. Lee, meanwhile, said returning to Indonesia was personally significant, having attended Surabaya Intercultural School earlier in her life before pursuing her university studies in the United States.
At Jimbaran Bay, the appointment adds a senior operator with experience across both rooms and people functions to a resort that has been part of the Bali hospitality landscape since 1993. Four Seasons currently lists 156 accommodations at the property, comprising 147 villas and nine residence villas, giving Lee responsibility within one of the company’s long-established island resorts in Asia.
