Lee Min-jung

Lee Min-jung started dating actor Lee Byung-hun in 2006. However, they kept their affair a secret for six long years, and confirmed it only in 2012.

She married Lee Byung-hun on August 10, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul in South Korea. Their son, Lee Joon-hoo, was born on March 31, 2015.

Lee was born on February 16, 1982, in Seoul, South Korea. Her maternal grandfather, Park No-soo, was a renowned painter, and holds an important place in the Korean art history.

She graduated from Sungkyunkwan University with a degree in Theatre. Unlike many other Korean artists, Lee Min started her acting career at the age of 25.

Her career started with filmmaker Jang Jin’s plays and skits. She then went on doing cameos and minor roles in movies like ‘Wishing Stairs’ (2003), ‘Someone Special’ (2004), ‘Wet Dreams 2’ (2005), etc.

Her theatre performances include plays like ‘Taxi Driver’ (2004) and ‘The Game of Love And Chance’ (2007). In 2007, she also appeared in a film titled ‘Pruning the Grapevine.’

Between 2005 and 2008, she played a few roles in TV series like ‘Kimcheed Radish Cubes,’ ‘Love And Sympathy,’ ‘Who Are You?’ and ‘Love Me When You Can.’

In 2009, she played a supporting role in the widely popular series, ‘Boys Over Flowers.’ Though she did not play the lead role in ‘Boys Over Flowers,’ she became a well-known actress after being cast in the high school series.

She then got an opportunity to play the lead role in the 2009 drama, ‘Smile, You.’ She also starred in a movie called ‘White Night’ which earned her a number of awards and accolades. She also worked in another movie titled ‘Searching for the Elephant’ in the same year.

In 2009, she won New Star Award for ‘Smile, You’ at the SBS Drama Awards.

In 2010, she received a number of awards including Best New Actress for ‘White Night.’ For her performance in ‘Cyrano Agency,’ she won many awards, such as Best New Actress, Popularity Award, Style Icon Award and Blue Dragon Film Award. She also won the Best New Actress at the University Film Festival of Korea.

Korea Lifestyle Awards chose her as the ‘Best Dressed Woman of the Year.’ She also won Director’s Cut Award for ‘Cyrano Agency’ under the Best Actress category.

In 2011, she got nominated for ‘Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Planning Drama’ at the SBS Drama Awards. She then won the ‘InStyle Fashionista Award’ at Baeksang Arts Awards.

She also received a lot of nominations at the 2012 KBS Drama Awards for ‘Big.’ In the same year, she received another nomination at the Seoul International Drama Awards under ‘Outstanding Korean Actress’ category.