 Other representative works of his include "Mihatenu Yume" (見果てぬ夢; "Unfulfilled Dream") and "Hyakunenno tabibitotachi" (百年の旅人たち; "Travellers of a Hundred Years").Lee was born in 1935 to Korean immigrant parents in Maoka, Karafuto Prefecture (the southern half of modern-day Sakhalin), and lived there until age 10.After the surrender of Japan which ended World War II, Lee's family, having gotten mixed in with Japanese settlers, escaped from the advancing Soviet troops and fled Karafuto.