Jieho Lee (born 1973) is a filmmaker from

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. He graduated from

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in 1995, receiving a double degree in Cinema Studies and the College of Letters. He received an M.B.A. from the

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

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/ref> His film, ''A Nursery Tale'' (1999), won the Special Jury Award at the

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for Best Short. Lee married actress

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in 2006. They met while Kim was shooting the drama series ''

Love Story in Harvard ''Love Story in Harvard'' () is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Kim Rae-won, Kim Tae-hee and Lee Jung-jin. It aired on SBS from November 22, 2004 to January 11, 2005 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. Synopsis T ...

''.

Filmography

* ''

A Nursery Tale "A Nursery Tale" (russian: Сказка, Skazka) is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov first published in the expatriate Russian newspaper ''Rul'' on 27 and 29 June 1926 and in the book form in '' The Return of Chorb'' in 1930. The English translat ...

'' (1999) * ''

The Air I Breathe ''The Air I Breathe'' is a 2007 crime drama film and the directorial debut of Korean-American filmmaker Jieho Lee, who co-wrote the script with Bob DeRosa. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gella ...

'' (2007)

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