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Kim's Convenience (Korean: 김씨네 편의점; Hanja: 金氏네 便宜店; RR: Gimssine Pyeonuijeom), by Ins Choi, is a play about a family-run Korean-owned convenience store in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. It debuted on July 6, 2011 at the Toronto Fringe Festival, having secured a slot by winning the Festival's New Play Contest.
Kim's Convenience is a Canadian television sitcom that premiered on CBC Television in October 2016. The series depicts the Korean Canadian Kim family who run a convenience store in the Moss Park neighbourhood of Toronto: parents "Appa" (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) and "Umma" – Korean for "dad" and "mum" – along with their daughter Janet (Andrea Bang) and estranged son Jung ().
Despite the series being based on a play by Korean Canadian Ins Choi, and Choi writing over a third of the 65 episodes, Rick Salutin, also of the Star, was less enthusiastic of the show's portrayal of minorities on television saying "only accents are funny in Kim's Convenience" and that audiences are "laughing at the characters not with them ...
In its latest clever move in what is one of the most exciting Connecticut theater season schedules of this year, Westport Country Playhouse is staging “Kim’s Convenience,” a rich, deep and ...
Debuting in 2016 on the CBC network in Canada, Kim’s Convenience follows the Kims, a Korean-Canadian family that runs a convenience store in Toronto. The comedy has won numerous awards in its ...
The hit play's writer and star says the story will make people realise "we're all dysfunctional". Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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).
Insub "Ins" Choi (Korean: 최인섭; RR: Choe Inseob) is a Canadian actor and playwright best known for his Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated 2011 play Kim's Convenience [1] [2] and its subsequent TV adaptation. Choi was born in South Korea and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He is a graduate of the theatre program at York University. [1]