#soon-tek oh

[mercury-sulfide]

We talk about Margaret being the only woman lead on M*A*S*H but I wish there was a Korean lead on the show that is set in Korea.

I would have LOVED to see Dr. Syn Paik from The Korean Surgeon (season 5 ep 10) stay on beyond that one episode. The writers were sleeping on this! The running gags would have been perfect! Every character has a Thing: secretly being a North Korean could have been his.

At least the actor, Soon-Tek Oh, returns as a few different characters and had a great career outside of M*A*S*H. Still, it would have been great to have seen a Korean-American actor play a lead role as skilled, kind Korean doctor.

[stargatelov3r]

1x4 Emancipation (5 or something)

[abs0luteb4stard]

WATCHING

I've never seen the original Mulan until tonight. I've the 'make a man or of you' scene & music videos in both English and Chinese.

Saw part of the movie in Art Class in High School in the background. The snowy mountain part with the burned village. I was too busy trying to finish my project which I was behind on.

But I saw it beginning to end finally. 22 years late or so.

But I enjoyed it immensely with my parents. That's all that matters.

[mash-notes]

JEERS to Major Reddish, who tried to bribe a North Korean pilot to come to the States as part of a PR stunt in “Foreign Affairs.” A funny, memorable role for Jeffrey Tambor, so good at playing a heel even before we knew he was one in real life.

CHEERS to Joon-Sung, the South Korean interpreter who, hired to translate for the pilot, ends up departing for America instead of him. This was the final of five MASH guest spots for Korean-born actor Soon-Tek Oh, whose talent was a huge boon to the series.

[stargatecaps]

[mudwerks]

(via Soon-Tek Oh, Actor Who Chafed at Asian Stereotypes, Dies at 85 - The New York Times)

Soon-Tek Oh, center, in a 1980 episode of “Charlie’s Angels” with, from left, Tanya Roberts, David Doyle, Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd.

[kwebtv]

East of Eden  -  ABC  -  2/8/1981  -  2/11/1981

Drama (3 episodes)

Running Time:  382 minutes

Stars:

Timothy Bottoms as Adam Trask

Jane Seymour as Cathy Ames/Kate Albey

Sam Bottoms as Cal Trask

Hart Bochner as Aron Trask

Bruce Boxleitner as Charles Trask

Soon-Tek Oh as Lee

Karen Allen as Abra

Warren Oates as Cyrus Trask

Lloyd Bridges as Samuel Hamilton

Howard Duff as Jules Edwards

Anne Baxter as Faye

M. Emmet Walsh as Sheriff Horace Quinn

Richard Masur as Will Hamilton

Nicholas Pryor as James Grew

Nellie Bellflower as Mrs. Trask

Vernon Weddle as Bill Ames

Grace Zabriskie as Mrs. Ames

Wendell Burton as Tom Hamilton

Matthew "Stymie" Beard as Cotton Eye

Timothy Carey as The Preacher

[scenesandscreens]

Mulan (1998) Directed by Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook, Art Direction by Ric Sluiter “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”