Updated Jan.20,2004 18:51 KST

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¡±Playboy Magazine¡± founder Hugh Hefner and Lee Sabi, Korea¡¯s first Playboy model, will be in Seoul to attend a huge party. Spice TV said the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul is planning a huge bash on Feb. 21, to be attended by roughly 300 people, and is pushing for Hugh Hefner and Lee Sabi to visit Korea and get down. The party will be thrown in the banquet hall.

Hefner, who turns 78 this year, opened a new chapter in adult entertainment when he founded Playboy in 1953. As a businessman, he has displayed unique abilities, dominating his field with a video business and adult cable TV stations, among other things. He says that he has worked hard to make sex, which even now is still considered a taboo topic by society, be considered a natural and a part of normal life.

He might be getting up there in age, but he energetically pulled off last year¡¯s 50th anniversary celebrations, and showed off his excellent health by posing with so many lovely ladies. ¡°Hef¡± will visit Seoul to help Lee, Korea¡¯s first Playboy model, who is currently in the United States, with her public relations.
Lee Sabi

Lee, who left Korea for LA on Jan. 11, told Hefner he should visit Korea when she met him at a party at the Playboy Mansion. He is said to have replied that he would positively consider the idea.

For next month¡¯s party in Seoul, the plans are for Hefner, Lee, staff members from Spice TV, and several Playmates -- Playboy Magazine cover models -- to be in attendance and spend some time mixing with local notables who have been invited. The party¡¯s organizers also plan to release the nude photographs and video that Lee modeled for in the United States.

Meanwhile, Lee, who was supposed to return to Korea last Sunday, has postponed her return date to Thursday since her modeling has been very well received in the United States and work has been piling up.