Jasmine B. Lee
| Lee Jasmine | |
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| 이자스민 Jasmine Bacurnay Lee 자스민 바쿠어나이 이 |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 30 May 2012 – 29 May 2016 |
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| Constituency | Proportional Representation №15 |
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Jasmine Villanueva Bacurnay January 6, 1977 Manila, Philippines |
| Political party | Saenuri |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Dong-ho (deceased) |
| Children | 2 children |
| Alma mater | Ateneo de Davao University |
| Profession | Actress, TV Host, Civil Servant |
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| Hangul | 이자스민 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | I Jaseumin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yi Chasŭmin |
Jasmine Lee (born Jasmine Bacurnay y Villanueva; January 6, 1977) is a Philippine-born South Korean television personality, actress and civil servant. Elected as a proportional representative in South Korea's National Assembly in 2012, she is the first non-ethnic Korean and naturalized South Korean to become a lawmaker.
Jasmine met South Korean mariner Lee Dong-ho in Davao del Norte when she was still a college student majoring in biology at Ateneo de Davao University in 1994. They got married and first visited South Korea in 1995 and finally united in 1996. They have two children, Lee Seung-geun and Lee Seung-yeon. She became a naturalized South Korean in 1998. Her husband died of a heart attack in 2010 while saving their daughter from drowning in a whirlpool in a mountain stream in Okcheon, Gangwon while on a family vacation. Lee has been living with her parents-in-law and seven other family members of her late husband ever since.
Since 2006, she has been a panelist on the KBS program "Love in Asia" and has also appeared on a Korean language program on educational channel EBS.
As an actress, she played the role of the mother of lead actor Yoo Ah-in in the highly acclaimed 2011 film Punch which drew 5.3 million viewers. She also appeared in the 2010 film Secret Reunion.
In January 2012, Lee became the first Filipino to receive the Korea Image Millstone Award from the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI). She was cited for her volunteer and charity works for foreign immigrants in South Korea. An advocate of multiculturalism in South Korea, she regularly gives lectures about the subject to teachers and student leaders.
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