Lee Sa-bi, also known as Lee Eon-jeong, is the first Korean

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

 Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

 model. While many Korean American

Korean American

Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...

 models have posed for Playboy, Lee Sabi's photo shoot in January 2004 was the first for a native Korean. Her Playboy photos were broadcast through mobile phones by the three largest South Korean telecommunication carriers.

She began her modelling

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 career as a catwalk model in Daegu

Daegu

Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...

 in 1998.

Drama

• IRIS
  Iris (TV series)
  Iris is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2009. With a budget in excess of 20 billion won , it, along with its spin-off Athena: Goddess of War, share the record for the most expensive Korean dramas ever produced.Premiering in October 2009, the series was a...
  
   as Tae-yeong (KBS2, 2009)
• Empress Chun Chu (KBS2, 2009)
• One Fine Day
  One Fine Day (TV series)
  One Fine Day is a South Korean television drama starring popular actor Gong Yoo from The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince and Sung Yu Ri from First Love of a Royal Prince...
  
   (SBS, 2006)
• My Girl as Yoon Jin-kyeong (SBS, 2005)
• Hello Francesca (MBC, 2005)
• Land of Wine
  Land of Wine
  Land of Wine is a 16-episode South Korean television drama broadcast by SBS in 2003.-Synopsis:In a place far from the town lived a boy and a girl. The girl's name was li shan xi. Her grandfather and father were selling traditional wine to earn money. They produce their own wine in a small shop....
  
   (SBS, 2004)

Film

• Our School E.T as chemistry teacher (2008)
• She's On Duty
  She's On Duty
  She's on Duty is a 2005 South Korean film about a police detective who goes undercover in a high school to befriend the daughter of an elusive gangster. Despite being heavily marketed the film was generally considered a box office disappointment...
  
   (2005)
• Doll Master
  Doll Master
  -Plot:The Doll Master begins 60 years ago in a countryside during the Japanese occupation of Korea. A narrator tells the tale of a doll maker who fell in love with a woman in a red kimono. He makes a doll as a gesture of his love. It works and the woman falls in love with him as well. Later in a...
  
   (2004)
• Hypnotized (cameo, 2004)
• 2009 Lost Memories
  2009 Lost Memories
  2009 Lost Memories is a 2002 South Korean science fiction action thriller film directed by Lee Si-myung. It was distributed by CJ Entertainment and was released on February 1, 2002.-Plot:...
  
   (2001)
• Memento Mori
  Memento Mori (film)
  Memento Mori is a 1999 South Korean K-Horror film. It is considered to be a loose sequel to the previous year's Whispering Corridors, as it is also set in an all-girls high school, but they are otherwise unrelated. The film was one of the first Korean commercial films to depict lesbian characters...
  
  (1999)