Lee Kyung-hee

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Lee Kyung-hee
Born (1969-07-26) July 26, 1969 (age 55)
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Korean name
Hangul
이경희
Revised RomanizationI Gyeonghui
McCune–ReischauerI Kyŏnghŭi

Lee Kyung-hee (born 26 July 1969) is a South Korean television screenwriter.

Career

Early works

Lee Kyung-hee began her television drama writing career penning star vehicles, among them Model (1997) with Kim Nam-joo and Jang Dong-gun, Kkokji (also known as Tough Guy's Love, 2000) with Won Bin, Lee Jong-won and Jo Min-ki, and Purity (also known as Pure Heart, 2001) with Ryu Jin and Lee Yo-won.

But she made a name for herself with

comedy-drama Sang Doo! Let's Go to School in 2003. About a young father who becomes a gigolo to pay for his daughter's medical bills, then goes back to finish high school with his first love as his teacher, it marked the successful acting debut of singer Rain. Industry insiders were surprised and impressed with the singer-turned-actor for handling the myriad emotions of his character with range, thanks to Lee who took advantage of Rain's screen presence and charisma, and wrapped the character's evolution around his strengths, trying to minimize his lack of experience. Co-stars Gong Hyo-jin, Lee Dong-gun, and Hong Soo-hyun, as well as director Lee Hyung-min
were also praised for their work.

Lee wrote another drama that same year, Breathless (also known as Running After a Dream or I Run), which was directed by Park Sung-soo (who previously helmed Ruler of Your Own World) and starred Kim Kang-woo and Chae Jung-an. It didn't have the popularity of Sang Doo, but gave an interesting, more mature spin to the "class divide" issue in its story about a factory worker entering into a relationship with a middle-class journalist. Through it, Lee proved that she could help rewrite the rules of the most predictable and clichéd genre on TV. Her follow-up was a single episode on anthology series Drama City titled My Older Brother, starring Lee Min-ki as the young immature father of an eight-year-old boy.

Mainstream success

A year later, Lee Kyung-hee gained popularity, both online and on TV, and critical acclaim with

2005 Baeksang Arts Awards
So received Best TV Actor and Lee was nominated for Best TV Screenplay.

Lee took it easy for a while after MiSa, and wrote two episodes of Beating Heart (2005), a drama with an experimental omnibus format of six two-part stories made by a different writer-director team. Lee paired with director Kim Jin-man in the segment Outing, which starred Bae Jong-ok as a forty-something woman having marital problems who meets the twenty-something doppelgänger of her college boyfriend (Ji Sung).

Anticipation was high for her next work, and Lee again cast Rain as a

Shin Min-ah) who drove his brother to attempted suicide.[4][5] But despite stylish cinematography from director Kim Kyu-tae, A Love to Kill (2005) was a critical misfire with disappointing ratings.[6]

Lee reunited with another Sang Doo alum, Gong Hyo-jin, in

AIDS patients and other underprivileged members of our society."[10]

Return to traditional melodrama

In Will It Snow for Christmas? (2009), Lee returned to the genre of traditional melodrama. Directed by Choi Moon-suk (previously of What Happened in Bali) and starring Go Soo and Han Ye-seul, the tale of rekindled childhood love lost the ratings battle against blockbuster spy series Iris.[9][11][12]

Lee already had

The Innocent Man (2012).[13] Titled in Korean "A Nice Guy the Likes of Which You Would Never Find Anywhere in the World," it tells the story of a man who goes to prison for the woman he loves (Park Si-yeon), but is betrayed by her when she marries a business mogul for money. To get his revenge, he intentionally approaches her step-daughter (Moon Chae-won) to seduce her in order to provoke his ex-lover, creating complicated feelings of love and conflict among the three of them.[14][15] Lee used the dualism of good and evil, love and revenge, to make her most cohesive, thematically strong drama yet, aided by director Kim Jin-won's unobtrusive yet unerring eye for detail. The cast's acting was praised across the board by viewers and critics, particularly Song for his nuanced portrayal, and The Innocent Man received high ratings throughout its run.[16]

In 2014, Lee reteamed with Kim Jin-won in Wonderful Days, her first time to write a 50-episode weekend drama. Starring Lee Seo-jin and Kim Hee-sun, the plot revolved around a prosecutor who returns to his hometown after 15 years and tries to reconnect with his long-estranged family and friends.[17]

Transfer to cable TV

In 2019, Lee will do her first project under a pay TV network. Her upcoming work, Chocolate, will be broadcast on JTBC.[18]

Other activities

Lee is also a professor at Doowon Technical University College where she teaches television writing.[citation needed]

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. ^ "So Ji-sub Is Optimistic – but Only Just". The Chosun Ilbo. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  2. Twitch Film. 18 November 2005. Archived from the original
    on April 14, 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Winners at the 2004 KBS Drama Awards". Korea Tourism Organization. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  4. The Dong-a Ilbo
    . 27 October 2005. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  5. ^ "A Love To Kill gains popularity from pilot episode". KBS Global. 1 November 2005. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  6. Twitch Film. 2 March 2006. Archived from the original
    on January 28, 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  7. The Dong-a Ilbo
    . 15 March 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  8. ^ Kwon, Mee-yoo (30 December 2007). "Actor Jang Hyuk to Marry in June". The Korea Times. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  9. ^ a b Oh, Jean (2 December 2009). "Is SBS' new melodrama classic or stale?". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  10. ^ "Korean Drama Wins Amnesty International Award". KBS World. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  11. ^ Han, Sang-hee (1 December 2009). "New Drama to Bring Warmth This Christmas". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  12. ^ Kang, Myoung-seok (27 November 2009). "SBS drama Will It Snow On Christmas? is all about love". 10Asia. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  13. ^ Yoon, Hee-seong (2 November 2012). "INTERVIEW: The Innocent Man Song Joong-ki – Part. 2". 10Asia. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  14. ^ Hong, Grace Danbi (5 July 2012). "Song Joong Ki, Moon Chae Won and Park Si Yeon Gather for Nice Guy Script Reading". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  15. ^ "Reasons Why We Cannot But To Love the Innocent Man". KBS Global. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  16. ^ Yang, Seo-hee (22 November 2012). "Werewolf Boy gets real". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  17. ^ Kim, Hee-eun (10 February 2014). "Kim Hee-sun gets Wonderful". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  18. ^ JTBC “진서연 출연 논의”…지난해 출산 후 복귀 시동 [공식입장]
  19. ^ "[단독]´함틋´ 이경희 작가, 휴먼드라마 ´초콜릿´ 컴백". 17 March 2022.
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