Soo Yeon Lee

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Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 이수연
Hanja : 李素 妍
Revised Romanization : I Su-yeon
McCune-Reischauer : Yi Suyŏn
Soo Yeon Lee, 2012

Soo Yeon Lee ( Korean : 이수연, Hanja : 李素 妍 ; born May 22, 1984 in Busan ) is a South Korean table tennis player , actress and table tennis trainer who also works as a model . She started playing table tennis at an early age and was trained in South Korea by Olympic gold medalist Hyun Jung-hwa . From the age of twelve, she won the Korean Junior Championship six times in a row. She promoted a number of well-known brands in advertising campaigns and is the brand ambassador for a chain of table tennis restaurants and bars.

Youth and table tennis careers

Soo Yeon Lee, 2014

Soo Yeon Lee was born in Busan, where she started playing table tennis at the age of nine and competed for the first time six months later. She won her first national junior championship at the age of twelve. Soon after, she left Busan to receive extensive training under World Champion Lee Ailesa at the Korea National Training Center . She later trained under the supervision of Olympic Champion Hyun Jung-hwa and won five other Korean national junior championships, followed by three wins in Korean national tournaments.

She enrolled at Korea National Sport University, where she was coached by Ahn Jae-hyung , and joined the national team. In 2001 Soo Yeon Lee was a member of the Korean team that won the silver medal at the Universiade in Shanghai . During her studies at the university, she earned degrees in sports psychology and sports.

In 2004 she moved to New Zealand to study English. She won the New Zealand Women's Singles Championship and was voted New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year. After five months she returned to South Korea. Her next step took her to the USA in 2007, where her sister studied in Chicago . Lee moved to Los Angeles and matriculated at UCLA . She won several tournaments in the United States, including the US Open in 2007 and the Killerspin Invitational in 2009.

Modeling and acting

Lee was discovered by modeling agents shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 2007, but didn't start modeling professionally until 2009. Since 2009 she has been combining her table tennis skills with her modeling career. In 2009 she attended the opening of Susan Sarandon 's first table tennis club SPiN in New York . She later appeared on The Jay Leno Show with Sarandon, and then promoted the company as it began to expand to new locations. She also promoted a number of other companies.

In addition to her work as a model, she worked as an actress in an episode of the television series Entourage , Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Cross Wars as well as other films.

Coaching

Lee is a certified US table tennis trainer. In addition to competitive players, she has coached a number of celebrities including Oliver Stone , Jamie Foxx , Susan Sarandon , Reggie Miller, and John Stamos and Kevin Dillon for the television series Entourage . She also worked with the State of Georgia and its national school sports league to promote the involvement of Georgian girls in table tennis.

Web links

Commons : Soo Yeon Lee  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c May Lee: Soo Yeon Lee: Ping Pong passion . China Central Television. April 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Soo Yeon Lee: Table tennis has helped launch my career . In: USATT (Ed.): USA Table Tennis Magazine . No. July / August, 2011, p. 48.
  3. ^ A b c Ian Marshall: Soo Yeon Lee First Team Choice for Los Angeles Celebrity Tournament . International Table Tennis Federation. April 30, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.ittf.com  
  4. ↑ a b c d Christina Schmotolocha: Soo Yeon Bio and Interview - The Woman of Many Talents . Splash Magazines Worldwide. July 30, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Soo Yeon Lee on Morning Wide talk show ( Korean ) February 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ Susan Sarandon . December 7, 2009.
  7. ↑ Julie Miller: Jay Leno and Susan Sarandon Watch Scantily Clad Ping-Pong Champ Wipe Out: VIDEO . PMC. December 8, 2009.
  8. ↑ Soo Yeon Lee . SPiN Global.
  9. ↑ Super Bowl Ads: Unlikely stars take on ping-pong mania . CNN. January 31, 2014.
  10. ^ Soo Yeon Lee: Photos . Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 8, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sooyeonlee.com
  11. ^ Soo Yeon Lee, la jugadora de ping-pong más "hot" del mundo (Spanish) . In: Publimetro Mexico , December 14, 2014. 
  12. ↑ Catriona Wightman: Kardashians: Ping pong, jealousy and black toilet paper - week 7 recap . In: Digital Spy , July 15, 2013. 
  13. ↑ Cross Wars (2017) - Full Cast & Crew . IMdb. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Soo Yeon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이수연
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean table tennis player, actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Busan