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Honey Lee won the third runner up at the Miss Universe 2007 beauty pageant in Mexico. Lee represented Korea in the competition. This is the best ever performance by a Korean in this competition. Honey Lee was one of the favorites to win the competition but she came close. She has the versatile qualities in her with alluring smile. She is a graduate from Seoul National University. 

Korea Times reported:

Global Beauties, a beauty pageant Web site, selected Lee as its Miss Universe winner, followed by Jonaitis and Mori. She also received `The Face of the Universe Award for her smooth complexion and brilliant smile, and the GB Best National Costume Award for her exquisite traditional Korean hanbok.

Lee graduated with honors from the prestigious Seoul National University. She is also a professional player of the gayageum (12-string Korean traditional instrument) and was named a gayageum prodigy by the Kumho Art Center.

``I have two goals. One is to become a cultural ambassador for Korea as a gayageum player and professor of traditional Korean music. The other goal is to become a volunteer missionary in developing or undeveloped countries including North Korea,'' she said, in a pre-competition interview posted on the Miss Universe Web site.

Having won the Miss Korea Universe 2007, many people expected that Lee would win the Miss Universe crown as well. Though she could not live up to the expectation of her fans, she showed her talent finishing the competition as third runner up. In fact, I was impressed with the way she answered the question of the judge in the final of Miss Universe 2007.