Written By Anonymous on Sunday, February 5, 2012 | 7:14:00 PM
Aquino and Lee made it to the top local trending topics of microblogging site Twitter on Thursday, a day after the President's admission.
The hashtag #Grace Lee was at No. 7 while #PNoy ranked eighth on the list on Thursday morning.
The hashtag #Grace Lee was at No. 7 while #PNoy ranked eighth on the list on Thursday morning.
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, netizens welcomed the news of the budding romance.
"PNoy dating Grace Lee.....Go for it Mr. President, your (sic) better off with her than your Porsche ;-D," tweeted user Del Valdes."Just in time for the VDay♥ go PNoy!" tweeted user Lui R."Ah, Mr. President... I may disagree with some of your policies, but I'm happy for you re Grace Lee," tweeted user Dax Lucas.Blogger Professional Heckler also couldn't help but notice: "Eh 'yong kinikilig na smile ni Presidente kanina when asked about the real score between him and Grace Lee?"
The President confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that he and Lee are seeing each other, but refused to give more details.
Grace Lee (Korean: born Lee Kyung Hee) is a Korean television host and radio disc jockey working in the Philippines. She is the third Korean expatriate to appear prominently in Philippine television, after Sandara Park, Ryan Bang and her fellow DJs Sam Oh and Jinri Park. She can speak Tagalog and English in addition to her native Korean.
Early life
Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and moved to the Philippines when she was 10 because of her father's business. She finished her high school at St. Paul's College in Pasig City, where she had studied since Grade 3. She took up Communication Arts at the Ateneo de Manila University.
Even then, Lee was already a beauty. She won third place in the Miss Chinese International pageant held in Hong Kong, according to her profile in a newspaper.
Before becoming a TV and radio personality in 2007, Lee actually got to work at Malacañang as an official interpreter.
Career
Lee planned on becoming a journalist. She sent her résumé to major television studios in the Philippines and received a callback from GMA Network. She landed her first Philippine TV hosting job in March 2007 as a segment host on Q Network’s lifestyle-magazine show "The Sweet Life". Among her first assignments include featuring life in Korea where she gets to wear traditional female garb as well as interviewing prominent Korean celebrities such as Yoon Se Ah of Lovers in Prague and King Sejong the Great drama series.
She recently joined Magic 89.9's morning radio show Good Times With Mo with Mo Twister and Mojo Jojo as a replacement for Andi-9. Lee is also a Manila correspondent for Yonhap Television News in Korea, as well as teaches at the Manila New Life Church's Sunday school for preschool students and takes part in various outreach programs.
Grace Lee hosted a cooking reality show, "Eateria" that aired every Sunday mornings on GMA Network. Lee also hosted "Diz Iz It" that aired 6 days a week on GMA.
She is now a guest segment anchor both for Balitanghali on GMA News TV on weekdays, and 24 Oras Weekend Edition on Saturdays on GMA Network.
Lee one of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women
While Aquino first met Lee only last year, during the inauguration of the Korea Electric Power Corp. power plant in Cebu, Lee has already caught the fancy of many Filipino men.
Lee was at No. 57 on FHM's list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2010, which is based on fan votes.
On that issue, FHM wrote: "Anytime with Good Times co-host Grace Lee is indubitably a good time. She’s been a media darling because of her gorgeous Korean features and bombshell body, and too modest a personality, Ms. Lee is a Grade A, a classy woman who’s got the brains to match the body."
There is even a Facebook page called "We want Grace Lee to be in the cover of FHM," which was set up after Lee supposedly said that she would agree to grace the cover of the popular men's magazine if she makes it to the top of the 100 Sexiest Women list.
While Lee never agreed to be on FHM's cover, she did appear in another men's magazine,UNO, wearing an unbuttoned white polo dress to reveal a pinstriped satin slip, showing plenty of cleavage.
"I’m Korean in blood, but definitely Filipino in nature. Totoo ‘yan,” Lee told the magazine.
The news about Lee and Aquino first came out after her "Good Times" co-host Mo Twister, who is currently in the United States, said on his Twitter account: "We are talking about Grace Lee's date last night with President Aquino. #itsmorefuninthephilippines."
This after a certain Adrian Abella tweeted Mo Twister: "Just asked Grace Lee if it's true that she had dinner with President Aquino. She said she did."
Lee initially denied a newspaper report claiming that she admitted dating Aquino. "I never said we dated. Nor did I say we are text mates. Nor that he comes to visit me," she said on Twitter.
But after Aquino's admission on Wednesday, Lee was quoted as saying, "What the President said is true.”
