Steven Yeun and Joana Pak’s Relationship Timeline: Inside Their Low-Key Romance
usmagazine.comA match made outside of Hollywood. Steven Yeun is famous for his roles in The Walking Dead and Minari, but the actor met his wife, Joana Pak, before he became a household name.The Oscar nominee and the photographer first connected in 2009 while Yeun was working as a bartender in Chicago.
Pak was in the city studying at Columbia College, while the Nope actor was performing with The Second City improv theater.“She walked into the bar where I was a really s–tty bartender, and it was kismet,” Yeun recalled in a March 2017 interview with Martha Stewart Weddings. “After that, I saw her every day for six months.”A potential setback arrived right away, however: Yeun was cast as Glenn Rhee on The Walking Dead, which primarily filmed in Atlanta. “We were kind of everywhere,” Pak explained in the same interview, reflecting on the duo’s long-distance romance.Some couples crumble under that kind of pressure, but Yeun and Pak’s relationship held strong.
The Sorry to Bother You star proposed to his longtime love in August 2015. Nearly a year and a half later, they tied the knot in Los Angeles in front of family, friends and some of Yeun’s Walking Dead castmates, including Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride and Sarah Wayne Callies.“Getting to celebrate the love between these two, last night, along with all their friends and family was so beautiful and special!!” Pak’s sister-in-law Kayce wrote via Instagram at the time. “This whole week has been an awesome, family-filled, fun time and it’s been so great!”Three months after their wedding, the couple welcomed son Jude, who arrived on St.
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