In an interview with Collider, Dae Kim discussed his time on Lost, and he believes that it changed TV forever. While South Koreans had appeared on TV prior to Lost, they were never especially prominent, as networks shied away from having " multicultural " casts with " international stories ". Check out Dae Kim's quote below:

Daniel Dae Kim believes there has been an 'overcorrection' in nationality-specific casting for Asian roles, and thinks that many Asian American characters don't 'require any kind of specificity.'