Jude Malcolm Yeun is the son of Steven Yeun, an American actor. Jude's mother is Joana Park.
Parent's Relationship
His parents, Steven, and Joana Park’s love story began when they first met through a mutual friend in Chicago.
They crossed paths again a year later in a bar where Steven was bartending, and their connection was instant.
After that, they started seeing each other every day for six months.
After enduring a period of long-distance while Steven filmed The Walking Dead, the couple got engaged in August 2015, and they got married at Los Angeles Paramour Estate in December 2016, surrounded by family and friends, including Steven’s TWD co-stars.
The couple had two children: a son named Jude Malcolm and a daughter born in April 2019.
They are living together with their two kids. While Steven is known for his acting, his spouse, Joana, is a photographer.
His wife, Joana, is low-key on social media, but she has been supportive and been present at events, including the 2021 Oscars, where Steven was nominated for Best Actor for Minari.
Jude helped his father understand everything
Jude's father Steven during his interview on Team Coco talked about how an incident involving Jude helped him understand everything.
Steven talked about his parents and said they immigrated in 1988.
He said his father was so impatient that even though he owned a home in Seoul, he didn’t wait and migrated to a new place.
He was doing well for himself as an architect but he wanted to leave so bad.
He further added that his mother told his father to wait until the Olympics so that the housing value might go up and they would have some money to move to Canada.
But his father was like Nope, getting out of here. He said they just jumped on a plane and went to Canada.
They lived in Canada for a year and then went to Michigan.
Steven said he thinks the key component of all of this was that his parents didn’t explain anything to their children.
He also shared a recent event that took place with Jude. Steven, after becoming a father, confronted his father.
In his defense, he turned to two or three-year-old Jude, who was standing there at the time, and said Jude didn’t know as well.
Steven then said Jude knows and he is taking in everything you are putting out.
He then further pointed out that even though Jude might not be able to conceptually understand it and speak to his grandfather about it but he feels everything.
This made him understand everything and Steven told his father, "You didn’t explain anything to me and that you literally took safety and then displaced it and didn’t explain anything."
Steven then agreed that he was suddenly in this new country, and was part of a completely different culture.
The dark part of immigration is that it takes a while as first a person is displaced and then there is this slow separation from your parents over the years because the child gets more ingratiated into the new place whereas their parents are still stuck where they are at.
Is Jude being brought up in Korean tradition?
During his father's interview on Team Coco, the host, Conan, asked Steven if he was ready or nervous about becoming a father for the second time to which Steven asked if anyone was ever ready.
He then shared that when his son was born he was made to face himself and he realized that he was actually a terrible person.
He then added that there is just some space for people to grow and that’s where now he only speaks in the way people hear him which is in these quips of philosophical quandaries.
The host then asked Steven whether he was raising his children with a certain Korean tradition and if the traditions were important or weird to him.
He replied saying yes but also said that there are some Korean traditions that were really funky.
He then shared his experience when he was a kid.
He said when a kid wets the bed, they put rice shifter on their head and make them go to the next-door neighbor and ask for salt.
Steven said it was just public shaming.
The host and Steven then joked a little and said Irish and Korean are similar in some way as they are both allergic to the sun and both are heavy drinkers.
In the end, however, Conan says Steven doesn’t know much about Korean to which Steven agrees.
Steven In The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
Steven is famous for The Walking Dead show.
He is entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as Sentry or Robert Reynolds.
Sentry is a powerful Marvel hero with a million suns at his disposal, dealing with memory loss and battling the void.
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman spilled the news in an interview, mentioning Steve’s costume fitting inspired by Sentry’s classic colors, similar to his role in Invincible.
Despite potential spoilers, Kirkman, not tied to Marvel, joked about it.
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Age
Jude was born on March 17, 2017. He is six years old as of 2023.
Net Worth
Jude's father, Steven's net worth is about 5 million dollars.
Steven Loves His Acting Career
Steven is known for his new Netflix series Beef. He opened up about changes in his life.
He is not as angry as he used to get before. He also drives at a steady 80 mph in the left lane.
Beef centers on a road rage incident turning into a major show. Steven loves working on it and is excited about his acting future.
He also shared about his Squid Game character, Danny.
Growing up in a Korean church playing guitar and singing Christian songs, Steven reflects on its impact, citing a meaningful Bible verse, Romans 12:2, that continues to shape him.
Steven Moved To Los Angeles To Pursue Acting
Steven was born on December 21, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea.
He gained fame as Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead and starred in the comedy Beef in 2023 as Danny Cho.
His height is 5 feet 9 inches. His family moved to Canada in 1988 and later settled in Taylor, Michigan, and then Troy, Michigan.
His parents began calling him Steven after meeting a doctor by that name.
He attended Ruth M. Buck Elementary School and graduated from Troy High School in 2001.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology with a neuroscience concentration from Kalamazoo College in 2005, where he discovered his interest in acting after attending a show by comedian Jordan Klepper.
Moving to Chicago in 2005, Steven pursued improv and sketch comedy, joining groups like Stir Friday Night and The Second City.
His parents supported his decision to pursue acting, and he moved to Los Angeles in October 2009 to further his career.
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