# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-hwi-jae
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:45:49.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-hwi-jae"
name: "Lee Hwi-jae"
slug: "lee-hwi-jae"
description: "Lee Hwi-jae is a South Korean TV presenter, comedian, actor, and singer. Lee studied theater at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, then made his TV debut in 1992 as a comedian after working as a floor director for MBC's entertainment program Sunday, Sunday Night. He shot to stardom in the program Life Theater. Since then, he has expanded his career to hosting variety shows such as Sang Sang Plus, Sponge and Quiz to Change the World. He was the third highest-paid entertainer at MBC in 2008, earning ₩574.5 million."
tagline: "South Korean comedian and host"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(TV10)_%EA%B0%9C%EA%B7%B8%EB%A7%A8_%EC%9D%B4%ED%9C%98%EC%9E%AC%2C_%EC%9D%B4%EB%8F%99%EC%9C%A4%EA%B3%BC_%ED%95%A8%EA%BB%98%ED%95%98%EB%8A%94_%EC%97%B0%EC%98%88%EC%9D%B8%EC%95%BC%EA%B5%AC_%ED%98%84%EC%9E%A5!_%EC%9D%B4%ED%9C%98%EC%9E%AC_48s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.945758666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/leeyoungjae51/"
    handle:    "leeyoungjae51"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1087186/"
    handle:    "nm1087186"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E8%BC%9D%E5%AE%B0"
    title: "李輝宰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hwi-jae"
    title: "Lee Hwi-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%87%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%87"
    title: "لی هوی جائه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hwi-jae"
    title: "Lee Hwi-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%9C%98%EC%9E%AC"
    title: "이휘재"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hwi-jae"
    title: "Lee Hwi-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B5_%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B5-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%88"
    title: "อี ฮวี-แจ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hwi-jae"
    title: "Lee Hwi-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12613278"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547169"
    title: "Lee Hwi-jae"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump