Actor Lee Min-jung reveals dismal high school grades, cringes at eyebrow-shaved yearbook photo

Actor Lee Min-jung, 44, once known as one of the top five beauties in Gangnam during her school days, has shared her high school report card and yearbook photo.

A video titled "Visiting my high school for the first time in 25 years" was posted Tuesday on Lee's YouTube channel, "Lee Min-jung MJ."

In the video, Lee visited Hyundai High School in Gangnam, Seoul, where she graduated.

When the production crew said they would reveal her yearbook photo, Lee pushed back. "My friends shaved off my eyebrows before the photo was taken," she said. "I really hate that picture."

Eventually coaxed into opening the yearbook, Lee appeared in the pages looking younger and fresher than she does today.

When the crew remarked that she looked the same as now, Lee was unconvinced. "I do look similar, but I really don't like the eyebrows," she said. "My expression looks unhappy, and my cheeks look even chubbier. I'm really not feeling great about this right now."

Lee also shared her school record. Her first-year entry read: "Bright and cheerful, gets along well with classmates, but tends to be somewhat easily distracted." Her third-year entry read: "Has an interest in music and writing, has a clear sense of self, and made efforts in her studies in the third year with improved grades, though greater diligence is required."

Her second year, however, was a different story. Lee received the lowest possible grade in French — the equivalent of an F under the old five-tier grading system once used in Korean schools — and described that period as the hardest of her school life. "Second year was the worst time for me," she said. "I was in such extreme turmoil that I asked my mom if I really had to keep going to school. I stopped studying and my grades just kept falling and falling, but I pulled myself together in third year."