Steven Yeun

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

South Korea

Active from

1983-12-21

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Steven Yeun (born December 21, 1983) (Korean name Yeun Sang Yeop, in Hangul 연상엽) is a Korean-born American actor. Yeun is currently starring in the role as Glenn in AMC's original series, The Walking Dead since 2010. Other than The Walking Dead, Yeun guest starred in the critically acclaimed American sit-com The Big Bang Theory as Sheldon's former room mate Sebastian in 2010, an independent film, and a couple shorts. He has also completed voice work for the Crysis video game series. <a href="htt

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,842x

2. Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks

   · 1998 · cited 33,743x

3. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 22,921x

4. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 21,519x

5. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,787x

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Quotes

• “Here’s what an Asian person looks like to a majority white audience…But if you go to Korea, the characters are just humans because they’re not thinking about it like that. That’s something that I was made aware of [with Burning], which was really wonderful for me to know. I didn’t have to represent all Asians. I could just represent myself.”
• “These days I feel my otherness in every situation…If I go to Korea, there are reminders that I’m not fully Korean. I can speak it – and I look it there – but there are cultural and historical things that I don’t have because I wasn’t necessarily raised there. They really form the identity of being Korean and I’m missing parts of those…a man with no country…That’s the kind of place I’m operating from.”
• “Let's not mess with your Americana that's kind of embedded into your body. The food that you've eaten, the choices that you've made, the way that you think - don't alter those things. Instead, just - let's work on the language so that you can be unequivocally Korean. But let's leave these mysterious Western encodings in your body alone. And I think that created its inherent kind of, like, dissonance with that character where you don't know who or what and where he's from.”
• “You know, the concept of even an Asian-American person and a man has morphed and changed even in the last decade by a lot. You know, there's moments where people were super psyched that an Asian man was in a relationship with a white woman. And that was, like, a big point of victory for a moment…”

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Key facts

Born

Sang-yeop Yeun , ( 1983-12-21 ) December 21, 1983 (age 42) , Seoul , South Korea

Citizenship

South Korea United States

Alma mater

Kalamazoo College (BA)

Occupation

Actor

Years active

2004–present

Spouse

Joana Pak ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2016 ) ​

Awards

Full list

Hangul

연상엽

Rr

Yeon Sangyeop

Mr

Yŏn Sangyŏp

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Wikidata facts

Image

Steven Yeun at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (cropped).jpg

Number of children

2

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