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Jin-Soo Kwon is a character on the television series Lost, created by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. The character is notable in that he is the one survivor (that we know of) who is entirely unable to speak English. By contrast, Korean-born actor Daniel Dae Kim, the actor playing Jin, was raised in Pennsylvania, and thus speaks "unaccented" American English in real life. Template:Spoiler
Basic facts
- Played by: Daniel Dae Kim
- Flashback episodes: ...In Translation, Exodus: Parts 2 and 3, ...And Found; also features strongly in Sun's flashbacks in House of the Rising Sun
- Reason for trip: Secret mission to deliver watches for his employer
- Profession: Businessman
Biography
Prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815
Jin-Soo Kwon is a Korean man under the employ of Sun's father, the wealthy industrialist Mr. Paik. However, he was born into relatively poor circumstances and, as a child, worked with his father on a fishing boat in a rural village in Pusan, a lifestyle he denounced and left behind upon coming to work for Paik.
Jin's strained relationship with his wife, Sun, stems from his employment to her unscrupulous father, who is not above using bribery, blackmail and extortion to succeed. When Jin came home one night with blood on his hands, Sun grew afraid of him and what kind of work he was doing for Mr. Paik. Jin had 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 beat the man in order to save his life. Jin, however, was unable to bring himself to tell Sun about her father's shady dealings and disillusion her about the source of her wealth.
Jin was assigned a secret mission to deliver watches to Mr. Paik's associates in Sydney and then Los Angeles; Sun assumed that it was a vacation. Before leaving South Korea for Sydney, Jin visited his father. Jin told his father about the turmoil that has plagued his life since being employed by Mr. Paik. Jin's father advised that he and Sun should stay in the United States once they got there and never return to Korea. This became Jin's initial plan until he was confronted by an associate of Mr. Paik in an airport washroom before boarding the doomed flight. The spy informed Jin that his plan to flee with Sun had been found out and he threatened to take Sun away from him should they run away.
On the island
Jin's inability to communicate sets him apart from the other castaways and he usually stays away from the others, who think of him as violent and abusive to his wife. Jin and Michael shared an often violent adversarial relationship which started by Jin attacking Michael to retrieve his father-in-law's watch and culminated in Michael attacking Jin for the alleged destruction of the raft he was building. Having eventually set aside their issues, Jin aided Michael in constructing a new raft. Jin has a gift for working harder than most people without tiring and can even catch fish from the ocean using his bare hands, using skills from his youth.
The discovery that Sun speaks English only further widened the gap between them, and they separated. The separation seemed serious as Jin became part of the raft party that would soon be leaving the island. Before Jin left on the raft, he and Sun reconciled. She gave him a book that she wrote containing phonetic spellings, in Korean, of common English words.
When Sawyer was shot by the men who kidnapped Walt and fell into the water, Jin jumped into the ocean to rescue him. He has been seen in previews following the episode Adrift where he has been held capture by the "Others" (as he says). In the latest episode, Jin is shown speaking perfect English in Hurley's dream sequence.
Jin has a single handcuff on his left wrist; this dates from his assault on Michael, after which Jin was handcuffed to some wreckage using handcuffs previously owned by Marshal Mars (and presumably worn by Kate Austen during the flight and discarded by her in the jungle after the crash, where Walt Lloyd found them). Michael freed Jin by cutting the chain with an axe, but the key is lost, so Jin still has the handcuff on one wrist.
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