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It depicts the Korean Canadian Kim family that runs a convenience store in the Moss Park neighbourhood of Toronto: parents "Appa" (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) and "Umma" – Korean for dad and mom, respectively – along with their daughter Janet (Andrea Bang) and estranged son Jung .
Kim's Convenience: With Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, Simu Liu. The misadventures of a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store.
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- 2016-10-11
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Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience - about a Korean Canadian family that runs a convenience store - is now available on Netflix in the US and internationally! (x-post from /r/KimsConvenience)
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Mr. and Mrs. Kim, or “Appa” and “Umma” (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon), own and operate a convenience store called Kim’s Convenience. They opened the store after they immigrated to Torontofrom South Korea, where Mr. Kim was a teacher. Cantankerous and opinionated, Mr. Kim has a difficult relationship with his estranged son, Jung (Simu Liu), who ...
Playwright Ins Choi was born in South Korea and moved to Scarborough with his parents when he was a baby. A graduate of York University’s theatre school and the Soulpepper Academy — a theatrical training program based out of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre — he wanted to chronicle the experience of Koreannatives who came to Toronto in the 1980s and op...
Kim’s Convenience was Soulpepper’s first full-length original play. It was directed by Weyni Mengesha and starred Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon as Appa and Umma. The actors later reprised their roles for the CBCTV series. Choi played Jung, with Esther Jun in the role of Jung’s younger sister Janet. Clé Bennett played a variety of the store’s cus...
Production companies began enticing Choi with offers to adapt his play for the screen as early as 2011. Choi was initially hesitant, concerned with preserving the integrity of his original vision. He had met a former TV executive named Ivan Fecan at a Soulpepper rehearsal in 2011. By 2014, Fecan was the head of his own production company, Thunderbi...
In October 2016, Kim’s Convenience premiered on CBC to largely positive reviews. The Globe and Mail’s John Doyle called it a “funny, sharply written comedy with the right dollops of goofy delight.” Writing about the show’s premiere episode, in which Appa confronts a pair of customers who want to put up a poster for a gay pride event, Adrian Lee of ...
In 2018, the show was made available for an international audience on Netflix. Critic Inkoo Kang called the series “a word-of-mouth phenomenon among Asian Americans since its arrival on Netflix.”
Canadian Screen Awards 1. Best Picture Editing in a Comedy Program or Series (Kye Meechan) (2017) 2. Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) (2017) 3. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series (Andrew Phung) (2017) 4. Best Supporting or Guest Actor, Co...
Jan 19, 2021 · Kim's Convenience follows the lives of a family running a convenience store in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood. The feel-good comedy has connected with audiences all over the world, since it...
Nov 8, 2023 · Jean Yoon is best known for her role as Umma in the stage-show-turned-CBC-series Kim’s Convenience, about a Korean Canadian family running a convenience store in downtown Toronto.
Season 1 – Kim's Convenience. A Korean-Canadian family runs a convenience store in Toronto. Prime Video Netflix. Watch Kim's Convenience — Season 1 with a subscription on Netflix, or buy it on ...
