Lee Seung Yeon - From the female pearl "First love" to the criminal who was destroyed by Korean people

Lee Seung Yeon was once voted as a Korean pearl and a "darling" of television stations in the 1990s. At the age of nearly 50, her career "died without stopping" because of a series of shocking scandals that made the audience feel. no regrets.

The pearl "first love" swept Korea in the 1990s

Lee Seung Yeon was born in 1968, worked as a flight attendant of Korean Air before being crowned 2nd runner-up of Korea in 1992. In 1993, the beauty represented Korea to attend Miss World and entered the Top 10 - one of Korea's highest achievements in this competition.

Success in beauty contests helped Seung Yeon's career go up like a kite, continuously receiving invitations to act in movies. The performance of the beauty in the series Heaven for us, My love for you, Hourglass ... was praised, erasing the stereotype of the majority of the audience at that time.

In 1996, Lee Seung Yeon became a phenomenon when he was given the role of Hieu Kien by director Lee Eung Jin in First Love. The work achieved 65.8% viewership - the highest in the history of Korean dramas and created a fever in Asia. In the film, Hieu Kien is a rich but strong and personality lady, daring to pursue love with a poor boy - San Hiep (played by Choi Soo Jong). The image of the runner's braided hair, delicate face and radiant smile made many boys miss it.

At that time, despite turning 28 years old, Lee Seung Yeon topped the list of beauties desired by men, surpassing other faces only at the threshold of 19-20. Her name is beyond the Korean border and is loved passionately. The first love also marked the spread of the Korean wave in many Asian countries, including Vietnam.

Seung Yeon's image appeared all over the newspapers, countless big brands chose her as their representative face. The beauty continuously acted in films and commercials, participated in TV shows with a record-breaking salary. The actor continued to make a mark with the hit series Cinderella, Ready Go, Piano Man, Change, Wedding Dress (1997)... Despite not having any formal acting training, Seung Yeon still met the strict requirements of the actor. directors.

Director Kim Jong Hak of Hourglass once shared, "There are few beauties coming out of the beauty contest who are smart, grasp the character's emotional circuit quickly, and act with depth like Lee Seung Yeon. It's the treasure of Korean cinema."

Sinners have their way of life cut off by Koreans

Lee Seung Yeon's career went downhill in 1998. At that time, she was found to be using a fake driver's license, was subject to a year of probation and 80 hours of community service. The Korean public is strict with Seung Yeon because she is a runner-up and a role model for young people. The scandal caused her role in Lying Heart to be cut midway. The series that was about to shoot Trap of youth was also replaced by someone else.

The beauty films participating in that time were not well received, although her acting was not bad. In 2002, she accidentally got into a scandal when lending her co-star's son a test car. This young man caused an accident and ran away from the scene. Many people blamed her for being careless, not considering the age of the person who borrowed the car.

2004 was the peak of Lee Seung Yeon's notoriety. With the desire to regain sympathy in the eyes of the fans, she released the photo book "Tong Quan An Phu". The purpose of the series of photos is to condemn the war, recreating the dark period of Korean history - when hundreds of thousands of Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers. All profits are intended to support Korean women who were abused by Japanese soldiers. However, she did not anticipate the consequences of the picture book series.

According to Naver, this act of rebuilding reputation was the wrong move in Lee Seung Yeon's life, making her cursed. The victims of the past were humiliated by Japanese soldiers "crying tears". They thought she was deliberately recalling the pain they had been trying to bury for years. Some people even want to die because they can't stand the wounds of the past.

The incident was so tense that the beauty surnamed Lee had to kneel in front of the nursing home of women who had been raped by the Japanese and destroyed the picture books right in front of them to ask for forgiveness. The director of her management company had to shave her head to make up for it. Only when Seung Yeon announced the cessation of all artistic activities, the Organization of Women Forced to entertain Japanese soldiers did not sue her to court.

At the end of 2004, Seung Yeon made Koreans angry when he returned in the blockbuster Empty House, forgetting his promise. After the scandal, no one dared to invite her to act in a movie, but "monstrous director" Kim Ki Duk chose her with the reason: "My film is about a character on the brink, Lee Seung Yeon is suitable for the role". Although Empty House received the "Silver Lion" award, and Kim Ki Duk was honored with "Best Director" at the Venice Film Festival, the Korean people still did not forgive Lee Seung Yeon.

Seung Yeon explained about not keeping his promise to leave the entertainment industry, "Despite my behavior that hurt people's feelings, I love acting so I can't give it up. I can't let my fans know. further disappointment."

In 2013, the Korean runner-up became the center of attention when she was accused of using propofol for six years. Accordingly, propofol is an anesthetic on the list of banned substances and is only used in surgery in moderate doses. If overdosed, propofol can become addictive. The anesthetic painkiller propofol was the cause of the death of "King of Pop" Michael Jackson in 2009.

Initially, Lee Seung Yeon admitted to using this banned substance as prescribed by a doctor to treat degenerative spine disease and waist surgery. However, then she repeatedly changed her testimony and cried for leniency. The actor was sentenced to eight months in prison and must pay a fine of 5.5 million won (more than 109 million VND). Before leaving the court, she sadly told the press, "Now everyone in Korea thinks I'm an addict." Lee Seung Yeon was sued by Tongyang Group for breaching the contract, greatly affecting the brand, and had to pay 100 million won (about two billion dong). After completing her prison term, she could not find a place, was boycotted by fans, and her career also stopped when she was "embargoed" by major TV stations. On Daum, many viewers still do not forget Seung Yeon's mistakes in the past. They called her "the stain of the beauty queens", "the one who brought back the pain of the whole nation" or "the obsession of Korean women who were humiliated by Japanese soldiers during World War II".

Recently, Lee Seung Yeon received a lot of attention from Korean netizens when revealing images of aging and fading at the age of 53. During a livestream exchange with fans, the 1992 Korean runner-up showed her face. carpentry. Because she doesn't use any beauty filters on her phone, her real-life beauty shows clear signs of the ravages of time. The once famous beauties of the screen looked worn out with sagging skin, wrinkles at the corners of the eyes and corners of the mouth, and a lack of freshness.

The current appearance of the film's beauties First Love caused a memory of a while, causing many people to be surprised and regretful. At the age of over 50, Lee Seung Yeon could not resist the invasion of time, many viewers commented that she looked older than her early fifties. Meanwhile, there are many opinions that the beauty of the actress of the Hourglass movie "degraded" partly as a result of the use of banned substances in the past.

Besides, Lee Seung Yeon's current health situation also makes her aura no longer fresh and full of life as before. According to Chosun newspaper, the star of The Empty House is battling hypothyroidism. The illness caused the 53-year-old artist to become tired, lose strength, gain weight, and pale skin. On her personal page, she often shares with fans about her daily life as well as how she overcame her illness. Recently, the actress revealed that her condition has improved a lot thanks to a healthy, scientific diet, rest. From the screen muse sought and admired by millions of people, Lee Seung Yeon's life now makes the audience feel pity and regret.

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