Watching his vocation from afar, primarily right after "The Walking Dead," when he branched out into auteur movies like Bong Joon Ho’s "Okja" (2017), Boots Riley’s "Sorry to Bother You" (2018) and, most notably, Lee Chang-dong’s "Burning" (2018), it seemed as if Yeun was on a distinctive observe than other founded actors like John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim, Margaret Cho or Sandra Oh.