That Korean Couple on LOST *Spoiler*
Say it aint so
SPOILER ALERT. Some thoughts on last night’s episode. I’ve followed Sun and Jin’s story w/ fascination, as a Korean couple featured on American television. Although the characters weren’t Korean-American per se, there was something deeply familiar about them, let alone the fact that Kim Yun-jin went to high school close by me and I knew her older sister in college. And I think Daniel Dae Kim is a fellow east coaster from the area. So as corny as it sounds, I see myself in these guys (and of course I had to pull my wife close this morning and say, “I will never leave you again”). So I’m really hoping that for the two of them they continue to find excellent roles in American media, and don’t become too narrowly typecast. I think it would upset me greatly if I see Jin in an action kung-fu flick after this. And I know Kim Yun-jin has it made in Korea, but I hope she continues to blaze a trail for us Korean-Americans in American mainstream media – so as to reverse the whole “racebending” shenanigans.
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Daniel Dae Kim is the lead in the new remake of Hawaii Five-O (and is joined by Grace Park from Battlestar Galactica)..