Get the Oriental guy.'"

He decided to do just that, reasoning, “This is bigger than this show.

This isn’t the first time this has happened.

Steve Park on ‘Friends’

Steve Park on ‘Friends’.Credit:NBC

And nobody felt the need to correct this or say anything about it.

So this was normal behavior.”

Timessent reporters to interview him about his mission statement, “and then they never printed it.”

James Hong on ‘Friends’

James Hong on ‘Friends’.NBC

(EW has reached out to theTimesfor comment.)

It went viral before ‘viral’ was even a word."

“If this was an isolated incident, I would not have felt compelled to write this mission statement.

Unfortunately, I find this attitude and behavior commonplace in Hollywood,” Park wrote.

It is still on the internet.

Park said that the experience of writing and discussing the mission statement prompted him to step back from acting.

“I felt like there is no freedom.

I didn’t feel any freedom.

I told everybody, ‘I’m not acting anymore.'”

He’ll next been seen in Bong’s sci-fi black comedyMickey 17, which hits theaters March 7.

Listen to Park onPod Meets Worldabove.