Lee So-hyun / Yi So-yeon

The first female astronaut from South Korea.
Born on April 27, 1978 in Kwangju, South Korea.
She studied at the faculty of mechanics and machine engineering at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology at the University of Taejon, where in 2002 she received a master’s degree in the sphere of machine engineering. In February of 2008, she was awarded a doctoral degree in the sphere of biotechnology.
In October of 2006, she was selected as one of 30 semifinalists in the South Korean national intake of astronauts for a flight to the International Space Station on a Russian spaceship in the spring of the year 2008.