Lee Si-yeon (, born July 24, 1980, is a South Korean model and actress. Lee Si-yeon is transgender, meaning she was raised as a boy but later decided to live as a woman.
Lee's birth name was Lee Dae-hak (). She changed it to Lee Si-yeon when she did gender transition to live as a woman. In 2007, Lee decided to use sexual reassignment surgery to change her body to be more like other women's bodies and less like men's bodies. Her uncle is Seo Jae-hyok, a member of the South Korean musical band Buhwal.
In 1999, Lee participated in the Anti-Miss Korea competition.(안티 미스코리아 대회) In 2010 she did her first performance as a singer.
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