Uncharted Island

Well, well, well. Sun Kwon isn’t the good little girl she’s been previously portrayed as. She’s not just the put-upon housewife with the mobster heavy husband who’s not allowed to do as she pleases. Ever since she was a little girl and lied about the maid breaking that glass ballerina figurine, at the cost of the poor maid’s job, she’s been lying as a method of self-preservation.Sure, all little kids lie at some point in time to get out of trouble, but as these flashbacks scene are always of great import to character development, Sun has apparently had it quite an art. Her first LOST lie was that she could actually speak English, though we’d all thought she only spoke Korean. Then she lied by omission, not telling Jin that he was the one with the infertility problem until she found out she was going to have the next island baby.

Her next lie? That she’s never been with another man. The writers left it vague as to whether or not she and English tutor Jae did the deed, but she was at least naked with a man who wasn’t her husband with the intent to sleep with him - so I think that counts as a lie unless you make allowances for the possible technicality. And her father, the evil Mr. Paik, knew about it. Some fans are calling it now, that the baby is not Jin’s. That’s where my suspicions lie, but I’m not going to place my bet yet.

I think she’s guilty of a much larger lie of omission. I think she pushed Jae out the window. There’s quite a debate on the fan boards about whether it was a murder or a suicide. The string of pearls in his hand is used as an argument for both sides. I’d originally thought that Mr. Paik had sent a back up thug to make sure the job was done if Jin couldn’t follow through, but I’m almost positive that Sun did it. I think she knew that Jin had reservations about killing him. I don’t think she killed him out of honor or shame or any sort of cover up. I think she may have killed him because she knew her father was likely to have Jin whacked for not following orders and therefore not being worthy of his daughter, cuckold or not. I think she did it to save his life.

Why am I so sure about this? It’s not really a plot-based conviction. I read an online piece in Stuff Magazine that said J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof like Yunjin Kim’s badass roles in Korean film that they wrote the part of Sun specifically for her. If they liked her so much playing “ball breaker roles,” I think it’s highly likely that they could’ve made her character the type of person to push her lover out a window to his death.

But for plot-based evidence, the scene with Jae falling to his death onto the hood of Jin’s car is interspliced with the scene where Sun shoots Colleen on the boat. Apparently, she is the type of person who would do that. And the Others don’t know everything.