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Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon
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Dae Kim: |
Daniel
Dae Kim (b. August 4, 1968, Pusan, South Korea) is a South Korean-born
American actor. He can currently be seen in the television series Lost
as the character Jin-Soo Kwon. Prior to his casting in Lost, he was
probably best known for numerous recurring roles in the genres of
science fiction and fantasy. He has been seen in Angel, 24, Star
Trek:Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Crusade, CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation, and other shows.
He also made guest appearances on Seinfeld, NYPD Blue and ER.
His favorite food is kimchi (kim-chee). |
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| Jin-Soo
Kwon: |
Prior to
the crash of Oceanic Flight 815
Jin-Soo Kwon is a Korean man under the employ of his wife Sun's
father, the wealthy industrialist Mr. Paik. He was born into
relatively poor circumstances and, as a child, worked with his father
on a fishing boat in a rural village in Namhae. One of his first jobs
in the city is at the luxurious Seoul Gateway Hotel managed by an
intolerant man named Mr. Kim, who deduces Jin's meager origins, and in
hiring Jin as a doorman, instructs him not to allow "people like
him" into the hotel. Jin works in this position briefly, quitting
after Mr. Kim rebukes him for allowing a slightly disheveled man into
the hotel so the man's young son could use the hotel lobby's bathroom.
Leaving the hotel after his resignation, Jin runs into a beautiful
woman, Sun, who eventually becomes his wife. Upon coming to work for
Mr. Paik, Jin denounces and leaves behind his peasant background so as
to curry favor with Mr. Paik, and obtain Sun's hand in marriage.
Jin's strained relationship with Sun stems from his employment to her
unscrupulous father, who is not above using bribery, blackmail,
extortion and possibly even murder to succeed. When Jin comes home one
night with blood on his hands, Sun grows afraid of him and the kind of
work she fears he is doing for Mr. Paik. Jin has been assigned to
intimidate a government official into overlooking environmental
regulation violated by one of Paik's factories; rather than allow one
of Paik's cruelly efficient hit men to simply kill the official, Jin
violently beats the man in order to save his life. Jin, however, is
unable to bring himself to tell Sun about her father's shady dealings
and disillusion her about the source of her wealth and replies,
"I do what your father tells me".
Jin is assigned a secret mission to deliver watches to Mr. Paik's
associates in Sydney and then Los Angeles; Sun assumes that it was a
vacation. Before leaving South Korea for Sydney, Jin visits his
father. Jin tells his father about the turmoil that has plagued his
life since being employed by Mr. Paik. Jin's father advises that he
and Sun should stay in the United States once they get there and never
return to Korea. This becomes Jin's initial plan until he is
confronted by an associate of Mr. Paik in an airport washroom before
boarding the doomed flight. The spy informs Jin that his plan to flee
with Sun has been found out and he threatens to take Sun away from him
should they run away.
Jin has a gift for working harder than most people without tiring and
is the best fisher in the group, a skill which he acquired perhaps
from his father.
Note: Two largely ignored facets of Jin's personal history involves
the mandatory military service (conscription) required of all native
born South Korean males from the age of 19 for a minimum period of 24
months, and the fact that a Korean man of his age would have had six
years of training in English in school, and more if he attended a
university. |
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Information
and image taken from:
ABC's Lost Site and Wikipedia.org |
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