She graduated from Sunggwang Highschool and dropped out from Hanyang University, while majoring Theater and Film.

After the incident, Lee Tae-im claimed that Kim Ye-won initiated the fight by using informal speech to address her, as informal speech is considered rude to be used while addressing older people and seniors in Korean culture.

Despite her claims, Lee Tae-im received public backlash, which caused her to withdraw from My Tutor Friend and other TV shows she was in.

However, less than a month later, video footage of Lee Tae-im and Ye-won quarrelling began circulating on the Internet, proving Lee Tae-im's claims that Kim Ye-won used informal speech to address her.

This caused the public sentiment to shift, with Kim Ye-won's remarks from the footage becoming a subject of various parodies.