Lee Hee-ah

[2] Her mother, Woo Kap-sun, took motion-sickness pills to deal with carsickness without realizing she was pregnant, which may have contributed to Lee's birth defects.

[citation needed] Her father, Lee Un-bong, was injured in a war and took morphine for 10 years as he was paralyzed below the waist.

[3] When Lee was seven years old, her mother started her on the piano to train her hands, which at the time could not even hold a pencil.

[citation needed] She currently attends The South Korean National College of Rehabilitation and Welfare.

On June 1, 2008, she wrote an open letter to Lee Myung-bak, asking him to apologize to the people for his political involvement with the South Korean protests against American imported beef.