 Lee also headlined "Paju", for which he won the Best Actor award at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival held in Spain.Film distributor Myung Film quoted the judging committee as handing Lee high points for portraying the anguish his character felt for loving his wife's younger sister.With "Pasta", in which he played a brilliant-but-abrasive chef, Lee successfully shook off his "gentle" TV drama image, and the series' popularity made him a bankable romantic leading man.