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'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Lost' top TV Saturn Awards

Gold Derby - Found Jun. 26, 2009
Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly and supporting players Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Emerson, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim and Elizabeth Mitchell.

Posted on June 26, 2009, 10:58 am

Lost The Complete Second Season on Blu-ray Disc

Big Picture Big Sound - Found Jun. 20, 2009
Terry O'Quinn, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Dominic Monaghan, Harold Perrineau...

Posted on June 20, 2009, 5:56 am

Lost The Complete First Season on Blu-ray Disc

Big Picture Big Sound - Found Jun. 17, 2009
Terry O'Quinn, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Dominic Monaghan, Harold Perrineau...

Posted on June 17, 2009, 4:45 am

$25 LOST!! EVERWOOD!! TRANSFORMERS!! CONNOR!! UNIT!! SUNNY!! NITRO!! ...

Aint It Cool News - Found Jun. 18, 2009
We get to see Yunjin Kim read for Kate. We get to see Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan and even Jorge Garcia play Sawyer.

Posted on June 18, 2009, 12:24 pm

Entertainment Weekly's Picks of the week

CNN - Found May. 10, 2009
Will Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) reunite, even though they're in different decades?

Posted on May 10, 2009, 6:25 am

Entertainment Weekly's Picks of the week

CNN - Found May. 10, 2009
Will Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) reunite, even though they're in different decades?

Posted on May 10, 2009, 6:28 am

EW's Picks of the week

CNN - Found May. 10, 2009
Will Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) reunite, even though they're in different decades?

Posted on May 10, 2009, 6:17 am

Runway To Red Carpet - End Of The Week Round Up

Red Carpet Fashion Awards - Found May. 17, 2009
Versace Spring 2009 Robin Wright Penn in Dsquaredฒ Spring 2009 Jewel in Tadashi Shoji Fall 2009 Yunjin Kim in Gucci Spring 2009...

Posted on May 17, 2009, 4:30 am

Oceanic Flight 815 Crashes Onto Blu-Ray

Cinema Blend - Found May. 27, 2009
Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Sun (Yunjin Kim), Jin (Daniel Dae Kim), Sayid (Naveen Andrews...

Posted on May 27, 2009, 4:21 am

Korea Launches New Content Agency

Animation Magazine - Found May. 5, 2009
Yunjin Kim, star of the TV series Lost, will be an ambassador for the agency.

Posted on May 5, 2009, 11:02 am

Yunjin Kim Biography

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Yunjin Kim (Korean: ๊น€์œค์ง„, Hanja: ้‡‘ๅ…็, born November 7, 1973 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean film and theatre actress. Although she is best known in the English-speaking world for her role as Sun-Hwa Kwon on the American television series, Lost, Kim has also appeared in numerous film and TV projects in South Korea.

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Biography

Early life

Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. At the age of ten, Kim emigrated to the United States with her family.citation needed They lived in Staten Island, New York. She joined the middle school drama club in the 7th grade and performed in the musical My Fair Lady.

Kim attended high school at the prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, a public high school located in Manhattan. From there, she went on to study drama at the London Academy of Performing Arts and later earned her drama degree at Boston University.

Career

After graduation, Kim devoted herself full time to acting. She garnered several minor parts on MTV, in soap opera-style dramas on ABC, and on the off-Broadway stage. In 1996, a South Korean TV show filming in Manhattan called and persuaded her to return to her country of origin, to appear in the South Korean TV drama A Gorgeous Vacation. This was followed by two other roles in Foreboding and the miniseries Wedding Dress. Then in 1997 she was offered a script for her debut film, Shiri (1999). Shiri was South Korea's first blockbuster film and became the highest grossing film in the history of Korean cinema in 1999.

Over the next several years, she starred in five additional films. In July 2003, Kim signed a three-year contract with William Morris, an American agency representing Hollywood stars such as Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan, and Reese Witherspoon.

Kim can currently be seen as the character Sun-Hwa Kwon in the television series Lost.

In May 2006, Maxim named Kim #98 on its annual List.1 In October 2006 she was featured on the cover of Stuff, as well as a spread inside the magazine.

Kim appeared in Maxim again in March 2007, where she was described as "the Korean Julia Roberts" in her native Korea.

Kim won the 2008 Daejong Award's Lead Actress Award for "Seven Days (2007)" on June 27, 2008, in South Korea.

She also appeared in S.G. Wannabe's music video, "Timeless" opposite Kim Nam Jin.

Filmography

  • Beautiful Vacation (1996) (mini) TV Series
  • With Love (1998) TV Series
  • Wedding Dress (1998) TV Series ... as Gina
  • Shiri (1999) ... as Lee, Myung-hyun (Lee, Bang-hee)
    • ... aka Shiri (1999) (Hong Kong: English title)
  • Danjeogbiyeonsu (2000) ... as Yeon
    • ... aka Gingko Bed 2 (2000) (informal English title)
    • ... aka Moyuru Tsuki: The Legend of Gingko (2000)
  • Rush! (2001) ... as Seo-Yeong
  • Iron Palm (2002) ... as Ji-ni
    • ... aka Mr Iron Palm (2002) (International: English title)
  • Yesterday (2002) ... as Hui-su
  • Milae (2002) ... as Mi-heun
    • ... aka Ardor (2002) (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
  • Lost (2004-2010) TV Series ... as Sun-Hwa Kwon
  • Diary of June (2005) ... as Seo Yun-hee
  • Seven Days (2007) ... as You Ji Hyeon

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