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In the News (Sun 26 May 13)

  
  Rick Yune
Il a gardé des contacts avec son agence de photos et celle-ci lui propose, en 1999, de rencontrer le réalisateur Scott Hicks afin effectuer un bout d'essai pour le film Snow Falling on Cedars.
Suite à des problèmes avec la Guilde des Acteurs (un Yun est déjà inscrit), il devient alors Rick Yune et fait ses débuts au grand écran.
C'est donc une énorme responsabilité pour Rick Yune que d'assumer ce rôle : " Je n'étais pas encore né que James Bond était une institution.
jamesbond007.net /hmtl/Zao.html   (640 words)

  
  Rick Yune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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.
Yune also appeared in The Fast and the Furious and Snow Falling on Cedars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rick_Yune   (180 words)

  
 Trading places - smh.com.au
Rick Yune recalls the exact moment he decided to take the biggest risk of his life.
As a lifelong Bond fan and critic, Yune was thrilled at the opportunity, despite having his head and eyebrows shaved, enduring hours of make-up to have diamonds embedded in his face and wearing painful blue contact lenses.
While Yune was thrilled to be the first Bond villain to drive his own supercar (a fully optioned and we're talking firepower here Jaguar XKR), other moments proved to be a little trickier, including a helicopter stunt that almost ended in disaster.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/15/1039656296854.html?from=storyrhs   (836 words)

  
 Wharton Alumni Magazine, Fall 1999 - The Courage to Change
Rick Yune’s career change began to unfold seven years ago in a building on 5th Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan.
Yune, who was taking a year off from Wharton, had an appointment with an attorney to discuss the merits of a career in law.
Yune’s rapid rise to the top of two of the toughest fields in the world — modeling and acting — has given him a definite perspective on success.
www.wharton.upenn.edu /alum_mag/issues/fall1999/feature_3.html   (527 words)

  
 Daily Pennsylvanian Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Yune, the keynote speaker of Asian Pacific American Heritage Week, urged the students to make their own decisions and establish their own sense of individuality.
Yune also spoke of the image of the Asian American as a "model minority" and encouraged students to learn from the methods of other minority groups.
Yune talked admiringly about the African-American civil rights movement of the 1960s and challenged the assembled students to look upon fl activists as models for risk-taking.
dolphin.upenn.edu /~apsc/history/1999/dp102899.html   (527 words)

  
 Global Talent Associates - Rick Yune
Within a year Yune was one of the first Asian faces to be part of modeling campaigns for Polo and Versace.
Yune made his big screen debut in 1999 in the critically acclaimed leading role in Snow Falling on Cedars, directed by Scott Hicks (Shine).
Rick Yune's motivation for speaking out about Asian American issues and issues of minority stereotypes in media is obvious: "In the media, Asians were either nerds or gangsters.
www.globaltalentassoc.com /site/clients/rickyune.htm   (219 words)

  
 Television Without Pity » Alias » Recaps & Extras » Season 4 Episode 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Rick Yune seems satisfied with his preliminary test of the isotope, because he tosses a small velvet bag at Vaughn and says he'll receive the other half of his payment once the full battery of tests have been completed.
Rick Yune just says some crap about terror happening every day and no one noticing it until something detonates and how he and Mr.
Rick Yune nods at one of his henchmen in the back and the guy comes up and puts a meaty hand on Vaughn's shoulder.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=75&story=7291&page=13&sort=&limit=   (628 words)

  
 CNN Programs - Showbiz Today
Now, Yune has combined his affinity for risk-taking and his ease in front of the camera by tackling acting on the big screen.
Yune: Yeah, well, it was during a time when people were saying "OK, there's a whole section of the world and there's a whole demographic domestically that we have to address." I couldn't tell you how or why it happened, it just sort of took that direction.
Yune: After about three and a half years on the street modeling, I wasn't really fulfilled by what I was doing.
www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/showbiz.today/star.tomorrow/archive/0106/27.html   (1047 words)

  
 Interview: Rick Yune
While Yune admits that he was intimidated the first time he stepped onto the set, he realized the best thing to do was just bare down and try his hardest.
Yune had to go through three hours of makeup a day to have real diamonds implanted in his face.
Yune continues, "I jumped into the helicopter, and there were gale force winds because we were right on the ocean.
www.countingdown.com /features?feature_id=2651681   (988 words)

  
 Rick Yune - TheBestLinks.com - August 22, James Bond, North Korea, South Korea, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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Rick Yune, a Korean American actor, has recently appeared in the movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" as Col. Moon, a North Korean extremist military officer who hopes to reunify the two Koreas by wiping out the US troops stationed in South Korea.
www.thebestlinks.com /Rick_Yune.html   (153 words)

  
 AOL Canada | Entertainment | Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Actor Rick Yune would never have guessed he would end up in front of a camera as an actor.
Born and raised in the States, Yune grew up in a fl neighborhood near D.C. As the only Asian kid on the block, Yune got into a lot of fights.
Inspired by his uncle who was the first in his family to attend a prestigious college and become a doctor, Yune went to the University of Pennsylvania.
www.tribute.ca /aol/movieinfo/ACTOR_BIO.asp?id=2338   (335 words)

  
 YOLK Generasian Next | 2.0 Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Yune's character Johnny Tran is a sexy, sharp and stylish racing junkie who butts heads against a rival street racing gang.
Yune grew up in "D.C. in the 80's--murder capital of the world, crackhead for a mayor; it was good!"
Yune refuses to jump on the Asian/Asian American bandwagon when it comes to movie roles.
www.yolk.com /v083/yune.html   (253 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Yune, Rick: Bond's buddies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Yune, who is of Korean descent, was a stock broker and model before he he made his feature film debut in Snow Falling on Cedars.
Yune, 30, qualified for the Olympic trials in tae kwon do when he was 19 and has kept honing his skills ever since, so he'll be ready for some one-on-one combat.
Yune is dating Lisa Ling, one of the co-hosts of The View.
jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/Y/Yune_Rick/2002/01/21/762813.html   (218 words)

  
 Extratv.com : Rick Yune
Rick Yune is singing that happy Bond tune these days.
Yune, who raced to stardom in "The Fast and the Furious," was accustomed to speed when he got to Iceland to shoot the car chase scenes with Brosnan, but metal on ice made the driving that much more dangerous.
As the first Asian guy to model Polo and Versace, Rick’s initial success was due to taking the right elevator, where he met an agent who gave him his modeling break.
extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/11_02/11_20e.html   (229 words)

  
 Lisa Ling & Rick Yune: The New AA Power Couple? | Asian American Issues | GoldSea
     Rick Yune was barely one when his family left his native Seoul, Corea for Silver Springs, Maryland.
Rick Yune is not Korean, he is an American.
Rick's agent and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) told him to change the spelling of his last name to "Yune" because they felt that YOON sounded too foreign.
goldsea.com /Air/Issues/Couple/couple_20523.html   (1073 words)

  
 Asian American Film: You Make the Call
The Yune brothers are the most stunning asian men on the planet (probably the most stunning men period).
Rick yune was great in fast and furious hes an amazing person and good looking bad ass asains should be in more movies.
I commend Rick Yune for his role, but he should've told Cohen to go fuck himself before they put him in front of the camera to get the living shit beat out of him by Vin Diesel.
www.asianamericanfilm.com /archives/000050.html   (3013 words)

  
 Rick Yune -- pictures, picture, pics, images, gallery, info, bio, gossip, shirtless, photos
Rick Yune is a first-generation American; his parents came to the United States from Korea in 1972.
To raise cash for his studies, Rick tried several jobs and was persuaded to become a photographic model in his spare time.
A keen athlete, Rick qualified for the Olympic Trials in Tae Kwon Do (a Korean martial art) when he was 19.
www.mostbeautifulman.com /actors/rickyune/bio.shtml   (409 words)

  
 Rick Yune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
With his chiseled physique and handsome features, Rick Yune seemed a natural for working in front of the camera, but his original intention was to pursue a career on Wall Street.
Born in Korea and raised in the Washington, DC, area, he was enrolled at Wharton when a modeling agent "discovered" him in the elevator of the financial firm at which he had a summer position.
Impressed with Yune's charisma and natural good looks, the agent managed to land the novice model some impressive gigs....
www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/186989   (157 words)

  
 MI6 :: Die Another Day (2002) :: James Bond 007
Yune has said about his role that he "leads a a double personality and you never know who is the character, depends the side you look."
Zao is hit by the explosion that 007 creates when activating the bomb hidden in the case of diamonds the pretitles sequence.
Born: 22nd August 1971, Washington D.C. Rick Yune, 31, was on his year off from Wharton Business School and working as a Wall Street trader when he was "discovered" in an elevator by an agent.
www.mi6.co.uk /sections/dad/zao.php3   (441 words)

  
 HSX : Movies : Market : StarBonds® : Rick Yune
Handsome and intelligent, Rick Yune brings a touch of class to his high profile film roles.
Yune spent three years as a futures trader on Wall Street before switching his career to modeling.
Yune's big break came in Snow Falling On Cedars as Kazuo Miyamoto, a man wrongly accused of a murder.
movies.hsx.com /servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=RYUNE   (143 words)

  
 AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Rick Yune
This is Rick Yune, A Korean-American,He had done some films in the US.
hmm a lot of korean dislike rick yune because he appears in 007 die another die.
Actually the role for Zao was first given to another korean actor before rick yune but he refused so rick took the role instead.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=618   (248 words)

  
 AsianWeek: A&E: Rick Yune Lands Snow Falling on Cedars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As you might expect from a former Wall Street stock and futures trader, actor Rick Yune has a very business-like approach to his career.
But Yune is cool and collected about his success: He was simply at the right place at the right time, he mused.
Looking back on the role, Yune believes he “pulled it off.” As Miyamoto, he keeps it low-key and withdrawn in most of the court scenes.
www.asianweek.com /2000_01_13/ae_rickyune.html   (726 words)

  
 Television Without Pity » Alias » Recaps & Extras » Season 4 Episode 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
See, Rick Yune has apparently severed all ties to every known contact and has, in effect, disappeared from the face of the earth.
I do my homework, y'all.) It would seem that the imaginary Shintaro Sword is the most famous samurai blade outside of Japan, and Rick Yune was trying to steal it in order to bring it back to Japan and restore honor to his country.
Because nothing says "honor" like "breaking and entering." Sloane says that they may not be able to contact Rick Yune, but he's thought of a way to get Rick Yune to contact them.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=75&story=7296&limit=&sort=   (463 words)

  
 Rick Yune Pictures, Biography, Filmography, Trailers,
Born 1971, August - With picture-perfect good looks and a genuinely warm and personable smile, it's little wonder that actor Rick Yune began his career in front of the camera as a model.
And though the former stock trader may not have anticipated an entertainment career while studying at Philadelphia's Wharton School of Business, his subsequent training at the Actor's...
ACTOR RICK YUNE IS ARRESTED IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS FOR BEATING A MAN UP by djones3
www.starpulse.com /Actors/Yune,_Rick   (145 words)

  
 Snow Falling on Cedars - Pet Sins Webzine February 2000
The plot revolves around a Japanese American Kazuo (played in the movie by Rick Yune) on trial for killing a German American.
The acting ensemble in Snow Falling on Cedars is headed by Ethan Hawke (Great Expectations) and Youki Kudoh (Picture Bride) as the lovers, with Rick Yune making his motion picture debut as the fisherman on trial for his life...
Rick Yune and Youki Kudoh, on the other hand, build real characters as the embattled Japanese-American couple.
www.colorq.org /PetSins/article.asp?y=2000&m=2&x=SFOC   (713 words)

  
 Hyphen Blog: Rick Yune, Modern Day Samurai
We also noticed that almost all the commercials were for watching your weight and aimed at women.
Anyhow, I was pleased to see Rick Yune listed as a guest star at the beginning.
yes, i agree, rick yune was pretty much the only interesting thing about the season premiere and they flubbed that, too.
www.hyphenmagazine.com /blog/archives/2005/01/rick_yune_moder_1.html   (583 words)

  
 rick yune
Rick is one of the very few male supermodels that is Asian, he has appeared in very popular magazines in the United States like Details, and not only that he is also a Hollywood actor now and appearing with the big stars.
This guy is very inspiring because he proves that you dont have to look Caucasian or to be of mix race in order to be considered beautifull in the modelling world.
by Y. Rick Yune, 27, was on his year off from Wharton Business School and working as a
www.geocities.com /crx2075/rick.html   (229 words)

  
 Rick Yune Signed 'Zao' Jaguar XKR 'Die Another Day'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Rick Yune Signed 'Zao' Jaguar XKR 'Die Another Day'
The model features the following weapons: missiles within radiator, heavy machine gun mounted on anti-roll bar, spiked ice tyres, missiles concealed within doors and rockets in the boot.
Hand signed on the windscreen by 'Die Another Day' villain Zao, played by Rick Yune.
www.grandprixlegends.com /SaleSite/S_BestBuys(Sale)/FD10012S(GPL_BaseCatalog)/Sale.htm   (80 words)

  
 Rick Yune - In The Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Calgary Sun Article, January 2000 By LOUIS B. Rick Yune thanks his lucky stars and knows he has a sky full.
In Snow Falling On Cedars, opening Friday, Yune plays a Japanese fisherman on trial for murder.
It took a scant two years before Yune graduated from print ads to TV commercials.
www.rickyune.com /media.asp   (169 words)

  
 01/03/03: Script for Die Another Day
RICK YUNE spots him and uses his NOKIA phone to find out who he is, because all NOKIA phones can do that.
RICK YUNE tells him who PIERCE BROSNAN is.
RICK YUNE: You were supposed to check your brain in at the door!
www.mrcranky.com /movies/pianist/28.html   (1497 words)

  
 Rick Yune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Packaging The rear face of the box looks at Rick Yune’s career so far and is split by half a dozen stills from the film.
When his top-secret mission is sabotaged, James Bond finds himself captured by the enemy, abandoned by MI6 and stripped of his 00-licence.
A case in point are Rick and Karl Yune, two sons of a Taekwondo master.
tinseltowngossip.com /rick-yune.html   (127 words)

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