Lee Kyung-hee was born on 26 July 1969 and is a South Korean television screenwriter.
18 Facts About Lee Kyung-hee
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Lee Kyung-hee began her television drama writing career penning star vehicles, among them Model with Kim Nam-joo and Jang Dong-gun, Kkokji with Won Bin, Lee Jong-won and Jo Min-ki, and Purity with Ryu Jin and Lee Yo-won.
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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.
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Lee Kyung-hee wrote another drama that same year, Breathless, which was directed by Park Sung-soo and starred Kim Kang-woo and Chae Jung-an.
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Lee Kyung-hee's 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.
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The drama was more emotionally intense than anything Lee Kyung-hee had written before, and she was praised by viewers and critics for her well-written script that showed beauty in human tragedy.
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MiSa became one of the rare "mania dramas" that received high ratings, and it swept the 2004 KBS Drama Awards, while at the 2005 Baeksang Arts Awards So received Best TV Actor and Lee Kyung-hee was nominated for Best TV Screenplay.
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Lee Kyung-hee took it easy for a while after MiSa, and wrote two episodes of Beating Heart, a drama with an experimental omnibus format of six two-part stories made by a different writer-director team.
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Lee Kyung-hee 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 doppelganger of her college boyfriend.
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Anticipation was high for her next work, and Lee Kyung-hee again cast Rain as a K-1 fighter who plans revenge against the actress who drove his brother to attempted suicide.
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Lee Kyung-hee reunited with another Sang Doo alum, Gong Hyo-jin, in Thank You, about a single mother living on a small island with her grandfather who has dementia and her HIV-positive daughter, until a cynical doctor enters their lives.
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Some critics considered it arguably her finest work, and Lee Kyung-hee won Best TV Screenplay at the 2008 Baeksang Arts Awards.
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Lee Kyung-hee already had Song Joong-ki in mind as the antihero protagonist when she wrote The Innocent Man.
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Lee Kyung-hee 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.
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In 2014, Lee Kyung-hee reteamed with Kim Jin-won in Wonderful Days, her first time to write a 50-episode weekend drama.
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In 2019, Lee Kyung-hee will do her first project under a pay TV network.
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Lee Kyung-hee's upcoming work, Chocolate, will be broadcast on JTBC.
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Lee Kyung-hee is a professor at Doowon Technical University College where she teaches television writing.