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Lee Mi-yeon: Still in Love With Acting

Source | 2007/01/20 | 0 comments | Permalink |

"Acting has produced the biggest energy and the greatest pain in my life. I can't promise you that I'm going to be an actress for the rest of my life. When I fall out of love with acting, I'll quit immediately. But I'm still in love". So says Lee Mi-yeon, who will return to TV screen, with a new SBS soap opera fittingly called "Crazy for Love". It starts airing on Feb 3, six years after she starred in "The Last Empress" in 2001.

Lee isn't interested in being in dramas all the time, but she has remained in the public consciousness due to her frequent appearances in commercials. "It is dangerous for an actor to feature in too many TV commercials", she admits, but adds, "People seem to have been looking out for me even during my break because of my healthy image".

In the drama, her character falls in love with the man who killed her fiancé in a car accident just a day before her wedding. Could that happen in the real world? "Well, love isn't rational. I don't think such things are i...| More