As a show that centers an Asian family cast without centering its storylines on being Asian, Kim’s Convenience has become less a sitcom than an oasis where integration, not mere tolerance, is standard.
play Appa and Umma, the Kim family’s respective father and mother figures . Though they speak English with Korean accents, this is never approached as a punch line.
But while the show is mainly lighthearted, with deeper issues generally getting resolved in a neat and optimistic manner, there’s also a darker strand running through it: Appa’s estrangement with son Jung, played by. Jung’s past is drip-fed through the seasons, with more details of situations that eventually landed him in juvenile detention being revealed in the last season.
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