 In 2008, she starred in "Robber", in the role of a young widowed single mother who is targeted by a con man for her savings, but he falls in love with her for real.Later that year, Lee was originally cast as the heroine in the inter-generational epic "East of Eden", set against the backdrop of a coal mining town in Taebaek through the 1960s until the present.In this series, Lee reunited with her Sweet 18 co-star Han Ji-hye.