Henry Cho is a recurring character on Gilmore Girls, portrayed by Eddie Shin.
Story[]
Henry and Lane slow dance at Madeline's party
Henry is a student at Chilton in the same year as Rory. He's smart, cute and funny, and a great dancer. He meets Lane at a party Madeline throws while her parents are away. While Lane is initially hesitant to dance with Henry because he's Korean too, she can't resist Henry's charms. Lane mentions that Henry is going to become a pediatrician and helps out with Sunday school, while his parents are very involved with their local church and that he speaks Korean fluently. She balks at the idea that she would be dating a boy her parents would approve of, When Rory wants to leave as she's upset over Dean, Lane tells Henry to call her.[1]
- Henry – I hung up. Twelve times. And then on the thirteenth time she said she was gonna have the FBI trace the call and have me thrown in prison. And although I know logically that the punishment for multiple hang ups probably isn't prison, she just sounded so capable of doing real damage that I...
- Rory – Stopped calling?
- Henry – And now Lane probably thinks that I forgot about her
- — Hammers and Veils
Henry calls Lane on the phone through a decoy-Rory, who connects the calls under the guise of being the one talking to Lane, which Lane's parents allow. During the summer before his junior year, Henry asks Rory if she can get a message to Lane as he can't reach her. He tells Rory he tried to call her, but Mrs. Kim answered and he hung up, doing the same thing 13 times. Lane reveals that she's kept him at a distance because her parents are sending her to Pusan for the summer and won't reveal when she's returning, leading Lane to believe she might not be. She worries she won't ever be able to date Henry because of this.
- Called him. He likes me. He's perfect. I'll never see him again. You'll read about it in my novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In Pusan"
Luckily, Lane returns to Stars Hollow and continues to talk to Henry. She sees him at Chilton's Shakespeare performance, where Henry's group performs a modern interpretation of the fight in which Mercutio is killed from Act III, Scene 1, dressed as businessmen in suits. While the whole thing is kind of weird, Lane is smitten with Henry and watches his performance lovingly.[2]
He has feelings for Lane but breaks up with her due to the fact that he can't take Lane on a regular date because of her strict Korean mother.
Trivia[]
- At one point he gets nervous and tries to sell her a subscription to the Wall Street Journal.
- In Season 7, Episode 3 we find out Lane's mother at one point wanted her to date a different guy named Henry, but this guy was her second cousin, named "Henry Lee", and was apparently very short.
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Episodes[]
- SEASON 1 (2/21)
- 17. The Breakup, Part 2
- 19. Emily in Wonderland
- SEASON 2 (3/22)
- 02. Hammers and Veils
- 09. Run Away, Little Boy
- 13. A-Tisket, A-Tasket