Rick Yune (born August 22, 1971) is a Korean-American actor. He was born in Seoul, South Korea, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and recently appeared in the James Bond movie Die Another Day as Zao, a North Korean extremist military officer who hopes to reunify the two Koreas by wiping out the US troops stationed in South Korea. Generally popular among young people of South Korea until then, he became the subject of fierce criticism for his role in the movie, viewed as ignorant of Koreans and humorizing the tense political situation between the two Koreas. He has been romantically linked to Lisa Ling, an American TV journalist. Yune also appeared in The Fast and the Furious and Snow Falling on Cedars. August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... A Korean American is an American of Korean descent. ... Seoul (서울, â–¶ (help· info)) is the capital of South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and is one of the most populous cities in the world, located in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River. ... The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the moniker used by the university itself; UPenn is also common) is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is a business school at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. The school was founded by Joseph Wharton, who also was one of the founders of Swarthmore College (founded in 1864), in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the United States. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... Die Another Day is the twentieth James Bond film made by EON Productions and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings James Bond. ... Zao is a henchman in the James Bond film Die Another Day. ... North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea. ... Lisa Ling Lisa Ling (born August 30, 1973 in Sacramento, California) is a Chinese American journalist, known as a co-host of ABCs The View, and host of National Geographic Ultimate Explorer. ... The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 action film starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and directed by Rob Cohen. ... Snow Falling on Cedars is the first novel written by American writer David Guterson. ...

External links

• Rick Yune at the Internet Movie Database