"...In Translation" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Tucker Gates and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Leonard Dick. It first aired on February 23, 2005 on ABC. The character of Jin-Soo Kwon is featured in the episode's flashbacks. This is the only episode Jin has sole centricity in, as all his other centric episodes are shared with Sun. The episode title is a reference to the phrase "lost i...
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"...In Translation" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Tucker Gates and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Leonard Dick. It first aired on February 23, 2005 on ABC. The character of Jin-Soo Kwon is featured in the episode's flashbacks. This is the only episode Jin has sole centricity in, as all his other centric episodes are shared with Sun. The episode title is a reference to the phrase "lost in translation," when a phrase or idiom loses its meaning when translated between languages.
Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) visits Sun's (Yunjin Kim) father, Mr. Paik (Byron Chung), to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. Mr. Paik interviews Jin, asking him about his dreams and his family. Jin states that he would like to own his own restaurant and hotel, and that his father is deceased, as well as telling Mr. Paik that he would do anything for Sun. Mr. Paik asks him if he would work for his car company, to which Jin immediately responds in...
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