Lee Jeong-hyeon

Lee Jung-hyun is one of those rare artists who genuinely pulled off the singer-actress double act without either side feeling like a side hustle. She burst onto the Korean entertainment scene in the late '90s, winning at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in 1999 for both Best New Artist and Best Dance Performance — that's a serious debut statement. Her electronic-tinged pop style was ahead of its time for Korean mainstream music, and her acting chops showed up from the very start of her film career. Trained at Chung-Ang University and performing under the occasional alias Ava, she built a career that never relied on a single lane. I find it genuinely impressive how she kept reinventing herself across decades while staying recognizably her own person — not every idol-turned-actress manages that kind of longevity with their credibility intact.

Name (English)

Lee Jeong-hyeon

Name (Japanese)

イ・ジョンヒョン

Reading

い・じょんひょん

Born

February 7, 1980 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / singer

University

Chung-Ang University

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Mnet Asian Music Award for Best New Artist
• 1999 Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Dance Performance

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://withava.kr
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mermaidleejh/
• Xhttps://x.com/mermaidjh
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3

Tags

• actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.