A major film star in her native Korea for close to a decade, actress Yunjin Kim became an American television star when she was cast as Sun Paik-Kwon, the secret-keeping, English-speaking half of the mysterious Korean couple in the hit ABC series “Lost” (2004 - ).

Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1973, Kim immigrated to America with her family in the early ‘80’s. Growing up in Staten Island, New York from the age of ten on, Kim was painfully shy. Unable to speak English at first, the future actress went through a difficult adjustment period and felt isolated throughout pre-adolescence. It was