Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Korean: 이선형; born August 16, 1972) is a South Korean-Canadian actor and television host.
He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera Train 48 (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play Kim's Convenience (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021).
When Lee was three months old, his parents emigrated from Daejeon, Chungnam to Canada, living in London, Toronto and Calgary.
[3] Lee was part of the main cast of the Global nightly improvised soap opera Train 48 in the role of Randy Ko for the entire run of the series from 2003 to 2005.
Lee has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and Kim's Convenience in 2012.
[14] In the same year, Lee's five seasons on Kim's Convenience came to an abrupt end when the two show runners left the project.