Andrew Lee | |
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Head of the House of Yi (disputed) | |
Reign | 2021 – present |
Predecessor | Yi Seok |
Ruler of the Joseon Cybernation | |
Reign | 2023 – present |
Born | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
Spouse | Nana Lee |
House | House of Yi |
Andrew Lee (born December 1983) [1] is an entrepreneur and the founder of the VPN service Private Internet Access, which started in 2010. Lee is, in media, known as "Crown Prince of Korea", as a pretender to the defunct throne of Joseon and the Korean Empire after being adopted by Yi Seok, a grandson of Emperor Gojong of Korea.
Andrew Lee | |
Hangul | 리앤드류 |
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Revised Romanization | Ri Aendeuryu |
McCune–Reischauer | Ri Aendŭryu |
In 2009,Lee founded London Trust Media (LTM),a private holdings company. In 2010,he founded Private Internet Access (PIA),a virtual private network service for anonymizing Internet traffic. [2] He claimed to have started PIA because of his interest in Internet Relay Chat (IRC),whose users' IP addresses could be easily revealed,but only after the Freenode purchase. [3] Lee and co-owner Steve DeProspero sold LTM (and its subsidiary PIA) to Israeli company Kape Technologies for US$95.5 million in November 2019. [4] [5] Lee co-founded Mt. Gox Live,a bitcoin price tracker that was later acquired by the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. [6]
In 2017,Christel Dahlskjaer,then the head of staff at Freenode,incorporated and transferred ownership of Freenode Limited to Lee; [7] Dahlskjaer and Lee said the company was solely for funding the network and running the Freenode #live conferences. [8] [9] According to staff,they were not informed of the contents of the deal and were told that it would not affect Freenode's day-to-day operations,as the company only managed the conference and nothing else. [9] [10] A dispute over changes Lee imposed in 2021 resulted in all of Freenode's 20 to 30 staff members resigning. [8] [9] This team went on to form a new network called Libera Chat. [8]
According to Andrew Lee,Won Joon Lee,one of his distant relatives and grandson of a keeper of the House of Yi lineage,said that their clan was descended from Korean royalty;as the result,he was introduced to Yi Seok,a grandson of Emperor Gojong of Korea. Yi Seok is known as an active pretender to the former monarchy,but he has no male offspring,and he proposed adopting Andrew Lee as his heir. [11] In October 2018,Yi Seok declared Lee the crown prince of Korea at a ceremony in Los Angeles,attended by Bermuda premier David Burt,and city officials from Los Angeles and Jeonju. [12] [13] [14] Andrew Lee later took over Yi Seok’s status as the claimant to the Joseon throne in 2022. By March 2022,Lee announced the founding of a "non-territorial successor state to the Joseon Empire",a cloud-based,blockchain-backed kingdom with himself as its ruler. In June 2023,the government of Antigua and Barbuda released a statement establishing diplomatic relations with the "Joseon Cybernation". [11] [15] [16]
Andrew Lee was born in Indianapolis and raised in Carmel,a city in the Indianapolis metro area. [17] [18] He enrolled in Purdue University and transferred to the University at Buffalo,but later dropped out to start working. [18]
In 2020,Lee and his family moved to a mansion in Hidden Valley,Ventura County,California. [17] [19]
In the afternoon of 18 November,2022,J-Money,driving a Rolls-Royce Phantom registered to Andrew Lee,was shot and robbed by 2 men in Koreatown,Los Angeles. [20] [21] As of February 2023,the perpetrators have not been identified. [22] Andrew Lee,under the rapper name KingLee,appeared on J-Money's album titled "Dun It All". [23]
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