Li Jiu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and went to Princeton University in the United States after World War II. He married Ukrainian-American Julia Mullock in 1958 and became a naturalized American. 1963 Return to Korea to operate China-Korea Airlines. However, after 1979 China-Korea Airlines closed down and 1982 divorced his wife, Li Jiu went to live in Japan. He died of a heart attack at Prince Akasaka Hotel in Japan in 2005. This is the old residence of his father Li Yin, where Li Jiu was born 74 years ago. On July 24th, 2005, Li Jiu's funeral was held in the former site of Gyeongbokgung Palace in downtown Seoul according to traditional royal etiquette. Posthumous title Tibetan Emperor, the temple name is Aizong.

Li Jiu has no children.

After his death, some members of the Lee family elected his nephew Ethan as the leader of Lee's Korea.

But Princess Li Huiyuan ascended the throne and declared herself the queen of North Korea. Become the first female emperor in Korean history.

In his bleak life, Li Jiu often said, "I am just a man whose name happens to be Li Jiu. If there is an afterlife, I don't want to repeat this identity, this life. "

There is also this sentence worth noting: "I am not a Korean, nor a Korean, nor a Japanese, nor an emperor. I'm nothing. I am an orphan without a motherland. "