Korean husband’s occupation

[bowzerdawg]

I’m typing this as I’m watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series and I was wondering could the Korean husband be a government agent spy or South Korean special forces maybe spying on the North Koreans? I ask this because he was all bloodied up. Maybe the Korean wife’s father is a military general. All Korean males born in South Korea have to serve in the South Korean military because of North Korea. This is what my former Korean College roommate told me. He had to leave college for two years and was going back to South Korea to serve in their military. If this show portrays him and the Korean father as an Asian mafia, then that's friggin stupid. I know about Korean people and culture and AFAIK they don’t have a big mafia like the Chinese Triads or the Japanese Yakuza.
Also, for any Korean speakers on this board, is the actor speaking Korean in an American accent. I’ve seen the actor’s work in other shows and he’s americanized like me probably American born and raised. I’ve been watching Korean historical drama shows like Age of Warriors and Admiral Lee Soon Shin and I’m trying to compare how the Koryo and Chosun generals speak Korean and how he speaks Korean on Lost if he has an American accent.;)

[lost1]

Funy, I didn't think that...but would be intreseting if so....I was thinking that her father was a mob boss and he joined the family as a mob soldier for her father....

[bowzerdawg]

That would be stereotyping if they portray him and the father as an Asian mafia. I would think he would be in the military because as I said in my initial post all males in South Korea have to serve in the military and tensions are high between North and South Korea right now. They send spies against each other all the time. A few years ago, some Japanese fishermen found a small sub with dead people in it of Asian origin and the gauges and dials had Korean writing in it. They speculated that they might be North Korean agents.

[PlaneJane22]

What makes me really curious is that Jin must have risen pretty high in Sun's father's enterprise by that point since he was making a lot of money. I can't imagine Sun's father would let her marry a common thug, so he must be pretty high in whatever organization it was.

It could be organized crime, it could be a big business (factories were mentioned) and Jin was doing union busting or something semi-shady like that. Hell, he could have just lost his temper on someone he worked with and beat them up.

[Beckers1]

It's the part where he's washing off the blood that gets to me.
Did Jin really do what we thinbk he did? If so, was Sun's father being attacked? Is it a red herring?

[Mithril379]

Interesting. I was thinking it's organized crime. Would the military pay as well, and support the apparently affluent lifestyle? Sun also seemed extremely displeased that Jin would work for her father, which struck me more as something criminal he could never leave.

[bowzerdawg]

I thought he got mugged when he was all bloodied up but when the Korean wife asked him what kind of work he does for her father, I was thinking government agent/military special forces or criminal activity.
You know I was laughing about the part where the father says Koreans hate black people. I went to a private Christian high school with both black and korean American students and they seem to get along pretty well. We play basketball together and some of us hang out during lunch hour as a crew. It’s the Koreans that usually get discriminated in Japan. It’s a long historical animosity between Koreans and the Japanese that started from when Japanese Samurai Armies lead by Daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded and enslaved Korea in the 1580’s all the way to the early 1900’s when the modern Imperial Japanese military “colonized” Korea for half a century. It’s sort of like the relationship between the Irish or the Scottish and the English in the past.

[ilovemarkdarcy]

his (ddk's) korean is kinda bad. not horrible, but not good either. my friends and i crack up when we hear his korean, but it's not THAT bad. rick yune's was worse in the last james bond movie.

at least they got an actual korean to play the part. i hated margaret cho's "all-american girl" where the whole cast wasn't korean except her and none of them looked korean. i mean, i know there wasn't a huge pool of korean actors to choose from, but ... it's like having a show about an italian family and having a red headed scottish person playing one of the family members. bad.