HOPE BANCORP INC — Director's Dealing 2011

May 26, 2011

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: NARA BANCORP INC (NARA)
CIK: 0001128361
Period of Report: 2011-05-25

Reporting Person: PAIK JESUN (Director)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2011-05-25	Common Stock	M	10000	$4.75	Acquired	51033	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2011-05-25	Non-statutory stock options	$4.75	M	10000	Disposed	2011-07-20	Common Stock (10000)	Direct

Footnotes

F1: The original option grant, representing a right to purchase a total of 30,000 shares, became exercisable in three equal annual installments on the grant anniversary date, commencing with the first anniversary date of July 20, 2002. Since the original option grant, NARA stock went through two stock splits 2-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of additional 80,000 stock options.