Born in 1944 in the city of Jincheon, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul, Lee studied German literature at Seoul's Korea University until 1969, but became the chief priest of an Anglican church in Seoul in 1977 after completing his graduate degree in theology at the Seoul National University in 1974.
He received his master's degree from Canada's University of Manitoba and his doctorate from the University of Trinity College in Toronto in 1988.Lee taught at the Sung Kong Hoe University in Seoul and served as the university president from 1994 to 2000 when he joined the then-ruling Millennium Democratic Party to become a member of the 16th National Assembly.
He helped found the governing Uri Party, but was briefly detained early 2004 on suspicions of receiving illegal campaign funds in the lead up to the 2002 presidential election, in which the Millennium Democratic Party candidate Roh Moo-hyun was elected president.
He was convicted and sentenced to a one-year jail term, but was released on three-years of probation.Lee returned to preaching shortly after his release in 2004, serving at the House of Shalom, a shelter run by his church for migrant workers here.
He was named the senior vice president of the presidential National Unification Advisory Council later that year and has served in that post since. He is also working as an advisor for the ruling Uri Party. He is married with one daughter.
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