[1] Lee, the seventh of eight children in a poor family, enlisted in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps in 1971.

[6] The Marine Corps had created a special force to infiltrate North Korea following the Blue House raid, and Lee and other recruits underwent harsh training in Manisan.

During one night training session in July 1973,[6] he fell off a cliff and sustained a spinal cord injury.

He spent six years in bed, before a missionary persuaded him to try table tennis for rehabilitation.

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