Lee Donghae Biography

Donghae was born in Mokpo, Jeollanam on October 15 ,1986.
Donghae initially wanted to become an athlete, but under the influence of his father, who had a wish to become a singer, Donghae decided to train himself to become a singer. In 2001, Donghae successfully signed a contract with SM Entertainment soon after he jointly won the Best Outward Appearance award with future band mate Sungmin on the company's third annual SM Youth Best Contest. Under SM Entertainment, Donghae was put in singing, dancing and acting lessons that same year. He was then recruited into a five-member boy band smile,with future band mate Leeteuk, but the ideb was soon dropped. In 2004, Donghae was put into another boy band and formed Super Junior with thirdteen other trainees. The group later became known as Super Junior 05, the presumed firt generation of the rotational music group ,Super Junior. Several days before the group debuted, Donghae made a brief appearance in November 2005 at SBS's shindong-yup's There Is There Isn't panel.