Lee Yeon-hee

According to her co-star Yeo Jin Goo, Lee is a reliable woman and a great co-actor. He says that they talk a lot about everything and that he can depend on her on the sets or anywhere else.

Lee stated that according to her friends, her role in the series, ‘Into the New World’ suited her very well and that all of her female friends were jealous of her being cast alongside co-star Yeo Jin Goo. She revealed that if she hadn’t been successful as an actress, she would’ve joined Girls’ Generation as she had trained along with its members.

Her hobbies include watching movies, reading books, singing and listening to music. She also loves swimming.

Lee Yeon-hee was born on 9th January, 1988 in the Haenam County, South Korea. She spent almost all her childhood in Bundang, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Do, South Korea. She took intense lessons in singing, acting and modelling when she was young and had entered into a contract with SM Entertainment.

Lee studied at the Bun Dang High School, after which she went on to receive an acting degree from the Chung Ang University.

Her family includes her parents, two elder sisters and a younger brother. Her natural brown hair and typical Asian black eyes are her special features.

Lee signed her first contract at the age of 13 in the summer of 2001 with SM Entertainment. SM Entertainment signed her as she won the Best Feature Award in the SM Entertainment Best Youth Contest. She won the award after singing to Dana, The Grace’s ‘Until The End Of The World’. She had also acted in a monologue and had performed freestyle modelling poses.

As soon as she entered into the contract with SM Entertainment, she began training hard and soon started appearing in music videos. She debuted through ‘Alone’ by Moon Hee Joon in 2001. In the same year, she appeared in videos like ‘Our Story’ and ‘Thanks God’ by Moon Hee Joon, Oh Sang Eun and Kangta.

Until 2004, she kept appearing in music videos. Some of them were ‘Condition of My Heart’ by Fly To The Sky, ‘Hero’ by Shinhwa, ‘Memories’, ‘Pine Tree’ and ‘Propose’ by Kangta, and in videos like ‘My Little Princess’ and ‘The Way You Are’ by TVXQ. In 2004, she made her television debut by playing young Jung Hwa in the television drama series ‘Emperor of the Sea’.

She kept doing minor roles in TV Series like ‘My Lovely Family’ and ‘Resurrection’ until she received a big break in 2006. She was cast as the lead in the MBC series ‘One Fine Day’. Later, in the same year, she made her debut on the big screen through the film, ‘A Millionaire’s First Love’. She was cast in the romantic comedy alongside Hyun Bin.

In 2007, she was cast in 2 films namely, ‘M’ and ‘My Love’. She played Gook Young ran/ Grace in the 2008 TV series, ‘East of Eden’. In the same year, she appeared in movies like ‘U Turn’ and ‘Hello, Schoolgirl’. Until then, she had appeared in lots of music videos. Some of them were ‘Timeless’ by Zhang Liyin, ‘The Left Shore Of Happiness’ by Zhang Liyin and ‘M Net Love Song’.

TV series like ‘East of Eden’, ‘Phantom’ and ‘Miss Korea’ and films like ‘A Millionaire’s First Love’, ‘M’ and ‘Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island’ are Lee Yeon-hee’s notable works.