Steven Yeun and Lee Isaac Chung connect to the unspoken feelings in 'Minari'
Actor Steven Yeun had spent a lifetime working toward the moment when he looked over at his father, seated next to him at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival premiere of "Minari" and saw him crying. Yeun's father caught him glancing his way and put his hand on his son's shoulder. Yeun returned the gesture. And then they both began sobbing. Literally. Torrents of tears. No words were exchanged â then or later. There was just this deep feeling of each man feeling finally, properly understood.
That moment didn't surprise Lee Isaac Chung, the writer and director of "Minari." When it comes to many Korean American households, he says, there's not only a cultural gap between immigrant
