 Lee also contributed the song "Where Farewells Don't Exist" to the drama's soundtrack.Lee's increased Korean Wave popularity led to him being cast in as the leading man in the Japanese film "Veronika Decides to Die" (based on the same-titled novel by Paulo Coelho), which screened at the 2005 Tokyo International Film Festival.He also played the leading role opposite Ami Suzuki in the 2007 Japanese television drama "Magnolia no Hana no Shita de" ("Under the Magnolia"), which portrayed a romance between a Korean man and a Japanese woman who meet while studying in New York City.