Under the impression that his wife, Sun, like him, did not understand English, the character Jin-Soo Kwon found camaraderie in their isolation, so much so that he felt betrayed when she disclosed otherwise.
This camaraderie appeared even more lopsided when Jin tried to control her by covering her bare shoulders and shouted at her angrily when she donned a bikini one day.
In the second instance, Michael (Harold Perrineau) dropped what he was doing–at that point, building a raft–to intervene.
That night, the same raft caught fire, and Jin, trying to douse the flames, burned himself.
Thanks to the earlier altercation with Michael, some of the crash survivors, including Sawyer, thought Jin was the arsonist and dragged him to Michael with the intention of beating a confession out of him.
It was at this moment that Sun spoke English for the first time, calling on her husband’s attackers to “stop.”
Jin later learned titbits of English, allowing him to participate in group activities with his fellow castaways.
After Lost, Daniel Kim Dae’s career streamlined into Hawaii Five-0, where he played Chin [jerk] Kelly from 2010 to 2017, followed by movies like Hellboy (2019), Always Be My Maybe (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), and Joy Ride (2023).
Other features include Angel, Star Trek: Enterprise, ER, 24, and in 2025, Butterfly, among others.
Dae, 56, married Mia Haeyoung Rhee in a 1993 procession that made it to the New York Times.
He currently lives in Los Angeles.
His oldest son, Zander, 28, splits his time between Hawaii and California while Dae’s youngest, Jackson, is 22 and just completed his studies at NYU.
As seen on his LinkedIn profile, he is pursuing a modeling career in New York.
Dae regularly informs his fans of his activities, which currently include producing the six-episode series, Butterfly, in which he plays the protagonist.
