Chul Ho Lee

Chul Ho Lee (; 23 February 1937 – 16 February 2018 ) was a South Korean entrepreneur and chef who was famous in Norway for producing the Mr. Lee brand of instant noodles; the name of which he was also known by. He was also sometimes nicknamed "Noodle King".

Biography Lee was born in 1937 in Cheonan, Chūseinan Prefecture, Korea, Empire of Japan. In 1951, during the 1950–1953 Korean War, Lee became separated from his family while fleeing the war. Later, he was severely injured in a grenade attack and ended up in a Norwegian field hospital (NORMASH). Doctors there arranged for him to be evacuated from Korea and treated in Norway.

Lee was active in the South Korean expatriate community in Norway, and a member of the Norwegian Korean War veterans' association, where he was affectionately called "Archie". He supported a number of charities and spoke at universities before his death. after a having lived with Parkinson's disease for a number of years.

Personal life His German-born wife Anneliese died of cancer in 1984. He had three daughters with her, Anja (a doctor by 2018), Sonja (a chef), and Irina (a journalist). Lee remarried a Korean woman named Hae Jong afterwards.

He wrote a book entitled Be Happy (2001), and his daughter wrote a biography of him called Det Sa Min Far (2010).