Who is Lee Ji-Ah?
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Lee Ji-Ah is a Korean singer and pianist who rose to prominence after finishing second in SBS’s K-pop Star Season 4 competition. Invisible, her first full-length album, was released in 2013 by Chili Music Korea.
She sang “Again Again Again” for the soundtrack of the Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo television show.
Where was Lee Ji-Ah born? Family, Education
In South Korea, on August 6, 1978, Lee was given the name Kim Sang-eun. Her grandpa, educator Kim Soon-Heung [ko] (His pro-Japanese activities in the 1940s are controversial), was chairman of Kyunggi High School and one of the supporters of the founding of Seoul Arts High School. Her father was an entrepreneur.
When her family immigrated to the United States and remained there for 10 years, she was in the sixth grade. At the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, she majored in graphic design.
She made her debut in the entertainment industry in an LG Telecom TV commercial alongside actor Bae Yong-Joon in 2004 while on a quick trip to Korea. Early in 2005, after departing from the US and returning to Korea, she legally changed her name from Kim Sang-eun to Kim Ji-ah and started using the stage name Lee Ji-ah.
Is Lee Ji-Ah Married? Relationship
When a tourist’s photograph of Lee and his Athena co-star Jung Woo-sung out on a date in Paris appeared online in March 2011, the two acknowledged their relationship.
She and Korean pop/rock icon Seo Taiji had been secretly married since 1997, according to a report published on April 21, 2011, by Sports Seoul, which was later corroborated by numerous media sites. The couple divorced in 2006. Lee filed a 5.5 billion lawsuit against Seo for alimony and asset partition
Two sessions were held at the Seoul Family Court (court filings used Seo and Lee’s birth names, Jeong Hyeon-Cheol and Kim Sang-eun, respectively). Both famous people were thought to be unmarried. In 1993, Lee traveled to the US to pursue a degree, and that same year, Seo and Lee connected at a Los Angeles concert through a mutual friend.
While Lee remained in the United States and Seo returned to Korea to resume his entertainment career with his band Seo Taiji and Boys, they grew closer over letters and phone calls. Seo announced his exit from show business in 1996. He then traveled to the United States, where he married Lee secretly on October 12, 1997. The pair lived in the United States and then relocated to Arizona from Atlanta.
When Seo went to Korea in June 2000 to make a solo comeback in the K-pop scene, they split up. The Santa Monica Family Court granted a divorce to Lee in 2006 on the grounds of irreconcilable differences brought on by the couple’s dissimilar lives and personalities. Lee remained in the United States.
Lee said in the 2011 complaint that the divorce was finalized in 2009 after being filed in 2006, therefore the three-year waiting period required by Korean law for alimony requests had not yet passed. However, Seo claimed that the divorce became legally binding on August 9, 2006, after which the statute of limitations had run out. Lee filed the lawsuit in January and dropped it on April 30 due to psychological distress brought on by the exposure of her personal life.
The request was disputed by Seo’s attorneys, and Lee’s case was reopened with her attorney claiming that the California court decision was unlawful and that the two were still legally wed. The ex-couple settled their dispute without going to court through mediation in July 2011, and the deal also contained a non-disclosure clause.
How tall is Lee Ji-Ah? Weight, Hair Color
She is 5 feet 5 inches tall, or 1.65 meters or 165 centimeters. Ji-Ah weighs approximately 55 kg (121 pounds). She has lovely dark brown eyes and blonde hair. She frequently delights her fans by sharing her modeling shots on Instagram, and they seemed eager to express their gratitude for her snaps update. Her body dimensions are 34-28-40 inches. She has a 34 BB bra cup size.
How did Lee Ji-Ah start his Professional Career?
- 2007–2013
Alongside Bae Yong-Joon, Lee made her acting debut in the 2007 fantasy TV show The Legend. Lee became an overnight sensation thanks to the high-profile, expensive production. Lee earned the Best New Actress, Popularity, and Best Couple prizes at the year-end MBC Drama Awards (with Bae).
A year later, at the Baeksang Arts Awards, she was once more named Best New Actress for TV. Then Lee starred in the 2008 film Beethoven Virus as a violinist who is diagnosed with an illness that causes total deafness. She was then cast in Style, a TV show based on the same-titled chick-lit novel published in 2008. Lee played a diligent assistant to Kim Hye-exacting soo’s fashion magazine editor in the film, which was inspired by The Devil Wears Prada.
She then made her big-screen debut with Kang Ji-hwan in the Korean-Japanese love story The Relation of Face, Mind, and Love. She participated in the seven-part “Telecinema” series, which featured Korean actors, directors, and writers, in late 2009. Each “telecinema” was broadcast on SBS television as well as in movie theaters.
After that, Lee co-starred in the 2010 spy drama Athena: Goddess of War, a prequel to 2009’s Iris, alongside Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won, and Soo Ae.
She portrayed an irate police officer who falls in love with a young millionaire who poses as a parking valet in the 2011 television drama Me Too, Flower! Lee joined Will Entertainment in March 2012 after her five-year deal with Bae’s agency KeyEast ended on December 31, 2011. She assumed the title role in Thrice Married Woman in 2013.
- 2014–present
Lee joined HB Entertainment, a new management company, in April 2014. After that, he signed a three-film deal as a screenwriter with Hollywood indie company Maybach Film Productions. Lee acted in the two-part fantasy drama Snow Lotus Flower in 2015. In the 2016 action-thriller movie Musudan, Lee makes her return to the big screen.
Lee joined a new management company, BH Entertainment, in May 2016 after departing from HB Entertainment. After a three-year absence, Lee made a comeback to television in 2018 with the drama My Mister. She was given a role in the horror-mystery drama The Ghost Detective that same year. She appeared in the SBS TV television series The Penthouse: War in Life, which ran from October 26, 2020, to September 10, 2021.
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