Review
Last update: April 1, 1999
Many fans are wondering about Sung Hi Lee's Sanctuary.
If you are a devoted fan who has signed up for her member section, please drop
ThaNirz an email and let him know what you think about the picture quality, the amount of
content for the price, the frequency of updates, etc.
Good or bad, drop me a line and voice your opinion! I'll compile the responses, anonymously,
and post the results in this ongoing review.
Is there enough to keep you coming back for more each month? Here you will find the answer each and
every month!
General
Sung Hi Lee's Sanctuary is a pretty good site. It's obvious that Misha (webmaster of Lisa Boyle's site)
put a lot of work in the layout and the graphics. Perhaps it is a bit to fem with all these soft
colors and butterflies but hey that's just my personal opinion. Probably other people like it this
way.
As far as the amount of content for the price, it's slowly worthwhile to spend a few bucks to
become a member. Even more, it seems that they will start soon with featured models as well!
If every thing planned gets put in place it should be a great site.
Her site currently has eight sections: Ask Sung Hi, Audio/Video, Biography, Souvenirs, Fun Stuff,
Photo Gallery, Scrapbook, and What's New.
What's New
Obviously this is where the new updates will be posted. In the first three months of this year she
posted over 100 new photos! Pretty interesting were the updates of her scrapbook. There are 2 new pages
of private photos including her first time in front of a camera. Furthermore she updated the video
& audio section with a new video file. With over 300 photos in total it becomes worthwhile now
to spend some bucks guys!
Some of the recently posted images at Sung Hi's Sanctuary
Ask Sung Hi
This section is more of an advice column. This is where Sung Hi gives her take on your
questions. Hmmm, to be honest I'm not really interested in how I get a girl to notice
me or how to take care of my relationship.
Audio/Video
Here Sung Hi has a Real Audio stream of the FAQ questions submitted to her. It's about 20 minutes
long and she reads the questions submitted then answers them. 'Each' month she will pick someone to
interview her. Thanks to Groggy we have now the complete script of the first Real Audio stream
(including the ahm... ntah... let’s see's).
Currently there are two audio files and three video clips (approx. 5 Mb/clip). The video
clips are more or less the making of her shoots for the member section. The videos were
recorded this summer by Misha and Lisa Boyle. The soundtrack of the first video 'Swang' was
provided by Aneel. All clips were edited by Daugwurks. Not bad but I've seen better video
clips of Playboy models.
Vidcaps of the first video clip (shl.mpg; 6.92Mb)
Vidcaps of the second video clip (website.mpg; 4.76Mb)
Vidcaps of the third video clip (sheets.mpg; 5.49Mb)
Biography
In this section she gives information about her life and answers a few questions such as, how she
started modeling and how she started working for Playboy. Most of her biography was taken from the
recent Yolk interview.
Souvenirs
Here you can order autographed photo sets (8 different sets; varying from $15.00 to $30.00 per
set). It's the same page as the non-member section so if you are interested please have a look at
yourself at www.sung-hi.com.
Fun Stuff
Here she has a link for her chat sessions, the first one was on September 30, 1998. It was a total
madhouse. It was totally packed to the limit (max. 25 people). As usual, paracrap was scrolling by
so fast poor Sung Hi could barely keep up. In attendance were Lisa Boyle and Patricia Ford. I guess
they were coaching her on how to handle the onslought of questions. There was a lot of noise but
because it was a marathon chat of almost 1.5 hours she came up with a lot of answers to serious
questions. Since then she kept several chats (in general twice every month).
In this section you can also send someone a virtual postcard and download wallpaper backgrounds.
There are 5 wallpapers of very high quality and come in three different resolutions. Also members
can register for a monthly drawing to win an autographed 8x10. The winners are picked on the 1st
of each month.
At the end of November the 10 price winners of the creative contest were announced. In the
member section you will find all ten submissions (9 wallpapers and 1 desktop theme) and I must
admit that some of them were very professional! The prices varied from free subscription to
the member section to a signed photograph. Congrats to all price winners!
Winners of the creative contest
Photo Gallery
The photos in this gallery are of great quality. Currently there are 282 pictures online in the
gallery (mostly taken from the shoot in Summer 1998 with Lisa, Misha and Tom in LA and the recent
shoot with Misha in LA).
| Sample |
Date of Release |
Series |
Photographer |
Pics |
 |
3/29/99 |
Feeling Sexy |
Misha |
21 |
 |
3/17/99 |
Day Dreaming |
Misha |
13 |
 |
3/7/99 |
Pink Fur |
Misha |
15 |
 |
2/24/99 |
A Blue Day |
Misha |
10 |
 |
2/12/99 |
Happy Valentine's Day |
Misha |
16 |
 |
2/9/1999 |
Return of The Butterfly |
T. Ruddock |
7 |
 |
1/31/99 |
Desire |
T. Ruddock |
9 |
 |
1/18/99 |
Morning Butterfly |
T. Ruddock |
5 |
 |
1/9/99 |
Green Hat |
T. Ruddock |
15 |
 |
12/20/98 |
Sitting Room |
T. Ruddock |
9 |
 |
12/8/98 |
Wings |
T. Ruddock |
15 |
 |
11/24/98 |
The Fountain |
T. Ruddock |
15 |
 |
11/10/98 |
The Piano |
T. Ruddock |
19 |
 |
11/2/98 |
The Seduction |
T. Ruddock |
10 |
 |
10/24/98 |
The Foyer |
T. Ruddock |
12 |
 |
10/15/98 |
Serenity |
T. Ruddock |
12 |
 |
10/6/98 |
Morning Coffee |
T. Ruddock |
8 |
 |
9/20/98 |
All dressed up! |
T. Ruddock |
16 |
 |
9/20/98 |
Flowers and Fluff |
T. Ruddock |
11 |
 |
9/20/98 |
Feeling Cozy |
T. Ruddock |
10 |
 |
9/20/98 |
Smokin' |
T. Ruddock |
14 |
 |
9/20/98 |
Butterfly Dreams |
T. Ruddock |
11 |
 |
9/20/98 |
Sexy Lingerie |
T. Ruddock |
7 |
Scrapbook
This was definitely one of the most interesting sections for me. Here she has 21 photos of her as a
child and one more recent picture with her brother. This section she says she'll be posting the
nerdiest photos of herself so "we can laugh together".
First swimsuit photo of Sung Hi Lee!
Price
As mentioned before, it's a good start, and once it gets rolling, it'll probably be worth the
current $9.95/month. It seems that most of the model sites (specially the ones handled by
Models-Inc.Com) have the same price.
Perhaps they should think on a multi-website subscription or something like that because I
think the price is a bit on the high side.
Another point is that they really should think about a secure subscription form. At this moment you
have to fill in your credit card number in just a form page that is send over the internet. C'mon
girls you probably make enough money to pay for some security!
To compare the website of Sung Hi with some others I will try to update a list of websites wherein
the amount of content for the price is rated. So far, Lisa Boyle's website is definitely the
best I've seen! please drop ThaNirz an email if you would
like to comment this list.
Interactive Ideas (owned by Russ Ronchi) started
early this year a program called Models-Inc.Com (MiC).
Due to the fact that they already handled many Playmate web sites they thought it would be wise
to try and channel that traffic. The MiC site was modeled after adult sites such as Persian Kitty,
YNOT Network, and C|NET. They wanted to funnel the traffic of like demographic sites as well as
provide a service to net surfers. Interactive Ideas is the design firm with 90% of the MiC members
and is the hosting firm for 100% of its members. MiC was designed originally as a service to their
Playmate type clients. Being that they know the internet business and it really is becoming a
viable source of commerce and business, they kind of gradually assumed a role of an "on-line agent".
They do promotions for the girls and handle press and marketing for a majority of the members.
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