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Kim's Convenience

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Kim's Convenience	comment	A Canadian sitcom based on the 2011 stage play by Ins Choi, Kim's Convenience is about the Korean Canadian Kim family and their convenience store in downtown Toronto. The family consists of immigrant parents Mr. Kim (Appa, Korean for "Dad") and Mrs. Kim (Umma, Korean for "Mom"), independent-minded daughter Janet, and semi-estranged son Jung. Rounding out the cast are Jung's coworker and best friend Kimchee and his manager Shannon.The sitcom began airing in October 2016, with the first season adapting the story of the original play and later seasons consisting of new story lines. It became available to many international audiences on Netflix starting in July 2018, and this was notably extended to Korean Netflix in September that same year. The sitcom abruptly ended after its fifth season in 2021 — although it was already renewed for a sixth season, the producers decided to prematurely end it as they felt it couldn't carry on without the co-creators, who were leaving the show to work on other projects.A Spin-Off called Strays, created by the series' co-creator Kevin White, premiered in late 2021 and focuses on Shannon starting a new career in Hamilton managing an animal shelter.Produced by CBC, it is one of the first Canadian sitcoms to feature Asian characters in most of the main roles.Spoilers prior to Season 5 are unmarked.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Kim's Convenience / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: A handwritten sign Mr. Kim misspelled sparks a conversation about the struggles of learning English between Mrs. Kim and another immigrant customer. After Mrs. Kim makes fun of Mr. Kim misspelling that sign and brags that she's more fluent than he is, the customer proceeds to point out all the mistakes in the other signs in the store, thinking they were also made by Mr. Kim. Those signs were actually done by Mrs. Kim, but she's too embarrassed to admit it so she plays along and claims she will correct her husband.
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Kim's Convenience / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Kim's Convenience / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The Kims may have their squabbles, Mr. Kim towards his family in particular, but their love for one another usually becomes apparent especially in more urgent situations. Mr. Kim and Jung are mad at each other for their family drama years ago and so avoid one another, but it becomes clear they do still care and miss each other a little. After some small hints, the first big evidence of this comes up when Jung leaves his work event (and unofficial date with his manager) to go see Mr. Kim at the hospital after his surgery, and Mr. Kim (albeit drugged on medication) happily converses with him. Afterward they can occasionally bear to talk to one another, and Mr. Kim even becomes eager to exchange texts with him. Even after the two of them have another big argument in the Season 2 finale, Mr. Kim still happily puts the new family photo on display and the two sometimes hang out. Mr. Kim is often on the receiving end of What the Hell, Hero? speeches from Mrs. Kim and the two have disagreements about their children and store, but Mr. Kim usually tries to make it up to his wife in the end and they also often have heartfelt conversations about their love for each other. Mr. Kim often butts heads with Janet, but immediately gets on her (ex) boyfriend's case after they find out he got engaged to another girl without breaking their relationship off first, and he's genuinely hurt when Janet seems to be accusing him of being a bad father. Despite Janet's grievances about him, she's worried sick when he discovers his lump and has to have surgery. The two are also emotional when she tells him she plans to move out (although he knew already) and share a sincere hug, with Mr. Kim clearly bittersweet about his daughter leaving the house but respecting her independence as well.
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Kim's Convenience / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Kim's Convenience / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Janet is 20 and still in college in the beginning of the show, while in the play she's 30 years old, already graduated and is working as a professional photographer. Jung meanwhile is aged 24 at the start of the show but 32 in the play. Justified as while the TV series adapts stories directly from the play the timeline of the show itself takes place around 10 years before the play, making it sort of a prequel.
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Kim's Convenience / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
Kim's Convenience / int_125f3ee4	comment	Pastor Nina blurting out to everyone that Mrs. Park is seeing her for marriage counseling.
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Kim's Convenience / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Kim's Convenience / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Umma contracts multiple sclerosis in the fourth season finale, even though Koreans statistically almost never catch it. Umma actually brings this up during a doctor's appointment in the fifth season premiere.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Kim's Convenience / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Mad that her parents sold some of her belongings that she left at their home, Janet sells their seemingly unimportant golden elephant statue as payback. Mrs. Kim then tricks Janet into thinking the statue contained her grandfather's ashes, in an attempt to guilt-trip her. Janet does her best to reclaim the statue but fails, and she bursts into tears when she tells her father. Mr. Kim feels so guilty that he ends up confessing about the lie.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1a65689d	type	Korean Pop Music
Kim's Convenience / int_1a65689d	comment	In Season 1 Episode 5, in a Korean newspaper that Mr. Kim is reading, a photo of the Korean Pop Music girl group Sistar can be seen on one of the pages.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
Kim's Convenience / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: After helping Kimchee fix his toilet, Mr. Kim says, "You good assistant, Jung," one of the early signs that he still holds his son dear to his heart despite their strained relationship. The two quickly change the subject after a moment of awkward silence.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Kim's Convenience / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Kimchee and Jung are so closely bonded, Jung's relationship to Kimchee gets about as much plot coverage as his love life.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
Kim's Convenience / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": While fixing the apartment toilet in "Handyman," Kimchee begins to chuckle after Mr. Kim says the word "ballcock." An unimpressed Mr. Kim then sprays him with toilet water. He has a chuckle afterward.
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Kim's Convenience / int_1f07a8bd	type	Who's Watching the Store?
Kim's Convenience / int_1f07a8bd	comment	Who's Watching the Store?: Averted as there's always at least one person minding the store during its business hours even if other family members are somewhere else. This trope (or avoiding it) is sometimes discussed or used as a plot point, as Mr. Kim insists on never even taking bathroom breaks let alone closing the store. In the food poisoning incident, Janet is about to leave the store but finds the counter staff-less and with a line of people waiting, as Mr. Kim had gone on a bathroom break to deal with his Potty Emergency. She takes over but excuses herself soon afterward as she deals with the same problem herself, leaving the customer hanging. Later when both daughter and father again run off to the toilet, Janet's friend Semira attempts to help a customer when she sees him waiting at the counter. Discussed in Episode 12 of Season 1 when Mr. Kim suddenly has to have surgery the same evening as Janet's award ceremony which means no one can run the store (Mrs. Kim has to accompany her husband). Janet insists on missing out on the ceremony so she can run the store but the parents are adamant that she goes — she almost does as they say, but customers keeping rolling in just as she's about to close up and she finds herself staying behind anyways. The one previous and only time the store has ever been closed is also discussed — when Jung got his appendix removed as a child and Mr. Kim stayed with him at the hospital the whole time. The parents are actually willing to close the store to celebrate Jung finishing high school, which upsets Janet since they wouldn't close the store for her.
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Kim's Convenience / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Kim's Convenience / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: While the first season is based on the play, the rest of the show contains original stories.
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Kim's Convenience / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Kim's Convenience / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: In the cold open for "Appa's Lump," Enrique, one of Mr. Kim's regulars, declares out of nowhere that he is ending his boycott of Kim's Convenience and is willing to bury the hatchet with a hug. Mr. Kim is just as befuddled as the audience.
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Kim's Convenience / int_257ff2e7	type	Maintain the Lie
Kim's Convenience / int_257ff2e7	comment	Maintain the Lie: Mr. and Mrs. Kim pretend to be residents of an affluent neighborhood to use the fancy tennis courts there, but then make friends with a couple who actually live there, and who ask to see their house. They end up leading them to a Big Fancy House and desperately hoping they go away before they have to try to open the door. Later they go back to the same house to get some old golf clubs the couple was giving away. Both times the Kims are confronted by the very unamused homeowners just after the other couple leaves, and get out by pretending to be Knocking on Heathens' Door.
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Kim's Convenience / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
Kim's Convenience / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: Janet's subplot in the Season 2 episode "Sneak Attack" starts when her response to getting caught sneaking into a film festival is pretending she doesn't speak English fluently. This leads the security guard to think she's a North Korean dissident filmmaker named Janat.
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Kim's Convenience / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Kim's Convenience / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: When a white customer confuses Appa for Ken Watanabe (a Japanese actor when Appa is Korean), Appa asks how the customer would feel if someone gets his ethnicity wrong by calling him a Kenyan. Turns out, the customer was born in Kenya.
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Kim's Convenience / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Kim's Convenience / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Many of the products on the shelves in the convenience store are real brands, but they are typically kept out of focus. When in focus the names used are usually parodies of real life brands, such as a customer shown holding a "Captain Raisins" cereal box (a take on "Captain Crunch" and "Raisin Bran").
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Kim's Convenience / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Kim's Convenience / int_2cc5703c	comment	In the food poisoning incident, Janet is about to leave the store but finds the counter staff-less and with a line of people waiting, as Mr. Kim had gone on a bathroom break to deal with his Potty Emergency. She takes over but excuses herself soon afterward as she deals with the same problem herself, leaving the customer hanging. Later when both daughter and father again run off to the toilet, Janet's friend Semira attempts to help a customer when she sees him waiting at the counter.
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Kim's Convenience / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Kim's Convenience / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Korean words/phrases are often used (especially "Appa" and "Umma" as used by Jung and Janet) in the otherwise Canadian setting, and there's the occasional brief Korean conversation. Considering this series stars a Korean immigrant family, this is actually far less Korean than it should be; Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, who plays Mr. Kim, has said that the parents would be speaking much more Korean in real-life.
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Kim's Convenience / int_33818056	comment	"Walk on the Wild Side" Episode: Janet starts to act rebellious when she feels she doesn't receive enough appreciation from her parents, highlighted by turning up to Jung's GED celebration party with a motorcycle right in front of said parents.
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Kim's Convenience / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Kim's Convenience / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out Of the four characters played by the same actor in the play, only Jung's friend Alex is still in the show. A Mr. Lee exists in the show but is unlike Mr. Kim's friend with the same name in the original (he's Korean instead of black and is merely the husband of Mrs. Kim's friend Mrs. Lee), and Rich and Mike are nowhere to be seen. invoked Jung is married with a child in the play, but he's single in the show so he can have a Love Interest going into Season 2. Justified as the TV adaptation is supposedly a prequel of the play.
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Kim's Convenience / int_383fe1b8	type	Embarrassing Old Photo
Kim's Convenience / int_383fe1b8	comment	Embarrassing Old Photo: Kimchee puts up a childhood photo of Shannon dressed as Anne of Green Gables in the office, with a pun reminding the employees to clean their dishes. Shannon strikes back with a childhood photo of Kimchee, but it becomes awkward when seeing him with his Disappeared Dad in the photo makes him consider reconnecting with him.
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Kim's Convenience / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Kim's Convenience / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: An art print of Gypsy Danger from Pacific Rim can be seen on the wall of Jung and Kimchee's apartment. Simu Liu (Jung) began his acting career as an extra in the film. Kimchee's mother is described as living in Calgary. In real life, Andrew Phung, who plays Kimchee, was born and raised in Calgary.
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Kim's Convenience / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Kim's Convenience / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: One customer rambles about several conspiracies involving brand products, companies, the government and reptilian aliens.
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Kim's Convenience / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Kim's Convenience / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: When Mrs. Kim tells Jung she's found his naked pictures, he panics. Then Mrs. Kim adds on and says she found them under his bed (they're naked photos of girls), Jung is relieved and says, "Oh, naked pictures of other people." Mrs. Kim doesn't catch on and Jung's supposed nude leak is never addressed afterward.
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Kim's Convenience / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Kim's Convenience / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": In "Janet's Roommate", Mr. Kim overhears a customer on the phone, saying that she and a guy are going to "Netflix and chill," but he doesn't understand the euphemism and thinks it's literally what it sounds like:
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Kim's Convenience / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
Kim's Convenience / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: Janet's professor thinks that she's being abused by her parents when she finds out that they flicked her as a child (and still do even though she's now an adult). Every time Janet tries to explain it as a cultural thing the professor thinks that she's just rationalizing it.
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Kim's Convenience / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Kim's Convenience / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The first two season finales, as well as the last one, end on a sweet yet also sombre note. In the Season 1 finale, Mr. Kim and Jung, while now on speaking terms, still get on each other's nerves and aren't ready to make up yet, and Shannon starts dating Alejandro just as Jung's realized his feelings for her. However, the Kims still give a heartwarming performance at the church singing contest (yes even Mr. Kim, albeit from outside behind the door so no one can see him) and Mr. Kim gives his blessing to Janet to move out with her friends, establishing that the Kims are still very much a family despite their differences. In the Season 2 finale that just barely avoids being a Downer Ending, Mr. Kim and Jung properly reconcile but have another big argument just before the whole family reunite at the party celebrating Jung's GED; they all nevertheless take a family photo before the two men go their separate ways, but it doesn't stop Mr. and Mrs. Kim from proudly putting the photo up. Jung's chances of becoming a manager at a rival car rental company look good, only to come crashing down thanks to his delinquent past; and this comes after Shannon 1) tells him she can't be with him because of Alejandro, and 2) shows her disapproval about said job offer. It worsens when it's revealed Kimchee's taken Jung's assistant managing position, unaware he just got rejected. On a final good note, after spending the episode feeling unappreciated by her parents, Janet has a heart-to-heart talk with her mum and gets a late graduation present from her dad (albeit the present that was meant for Jung, but she'll take it). Jung may have become a better person as a working adult and also just gotten his GED, but his delinquent past still catches up to him and ultimately stops him from getting the managing position at the rival car rental company. In the series finale, the whole family, as well as Kimchee and Shannon, have dinner together at the Kim residence. After the others leave, Mr. and Mrs. Kim remark on how lovely it was that nobody fought at the table. Shannon had broken up with Jung right before the dinner, but they kept it a secret.
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Kim's Convenience / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Mr. and Mrs. Kim, being immigrants and so not completely fluent in English, sometimes mispronounce words or say phrases incorrectly. One such example is Mr. Kim not knowing the word homophobic and mispronouncing it three times in one scene: "homopebek", "homopeebeek" and "homopobok".
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Kim's Convenience / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Kim's Convenience / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: A customer wants to buy a box of individual cereal packets, but Appa tells him they don't sell those.
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Kim's Convenience / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Kim's Convenience / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Mr. Kim disagrees when Semira wonders if her work for the nude photography assignment was too much and attempts to show support by saying, "We all born naked and we die naked." Semira and Gerald are left confused, and Mr. Kim quickly follows up with, "Depending. If we lucky."
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Kim's Convenience / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Kim's Convenience / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Terence is often the victim of actions by the other members of Handy Car Rental, Kimchee especially, and is treated with disdain. Gerald is usually the victim of Mr. Kim's hijinks or snarking whenever he's near him. Frank is very casually dismissed by Mr. Kim as a nuisance.
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Kim's Convenience / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Kim's Convenience / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Jung is absent from the setting in the beginning of Season 5 (appearing exclusively in video calls if at all), having suddenly gone to California for business college in between seasons. In real life, his actor Simu Liu was still filming for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in Sydney when Season 5 began production, leaving him to record his initial scenes separate from the rest of the cast.
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Kim's Convenience / int_4dd6313f	type	It's Always Spring
Kim's Convenience / int_4dd6313f	comment	It's Always Spring: All episodes take place under sunny conditions, typically in summer. A certain amount of time passes between seasons to keep this realistic.
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Kim's Convenience / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Kim's Convenience / int_4e3d253b	comment	In the Season 2 finale that just barely avoids being a Downer Ending, Mr. Kim and Jung properly reconcile but have another big argument just before the whole family reunite at the party celebrating Jung's GED; they all nevertheless take a family photo before the two men go their separate ways, but it doesn't stop Mr. and Mrs. Kim from proudly putting the photo up. Jung's chances of becoming a manager at a rival car rental company look good, only to come crashing down thanks to his delinquent past; and this comes after Shannon 1) tells him she can't be with him because of Alejandro, and 2) shows her disapproval about said job offer. It worsens when it's revealed Kimchee's taken Jung's assistant managing position, unaware he just got rejected. On a final good note, after spending the episode feeling unappreciated by her parents, Janet has a heart-to-heart talk with her mum and gets a late graduation present from her dad (albeit the present that was meant for Jung, but she'll take it).
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Kim's Convenience / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Mr. Kim is initially assumed to just not care for Jung anymore, ever since the two had a falling out and stopped contacting each other. This changes in Episode 6 of Season 1, when Mrs. Kim tells Janet Mr. Kim looks out the window of their store every day. The reason? "He is looking for Jung. Hoping."
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Kim's Convenience / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Kim's Convenience / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: In the Season 3 opener, when Jung wants to work at Handy Car Rental again without confessing he didn't actually get the job at the rival company, he makes up a story about a co-worker called Dave not fitting in at the rival company and asks Shannon if they'd be willing to hire him. She eventually agrees and later tells him to have "Dave" drop by for a meeting. Jung assumes Shannon's figured out Dave is actually him—unfortunately when he arrives at Handy for the meeting, it turns out she hasn't. When trying to hint that Alejandro cheated on her, Jung pretends to ask Shannon for advice about a friend who isn't being faithful in his relationship and whether he has the right to say something about it. Shannon unfortunately mistakes this to be a hint about her own scuffle (her kissing Jung) and blurts it out to Alejandro when he arrives at the workplace right afterward. When Kimchee is Gene Hunting for his Disappeared Dad, Shannon tells him about a friend of hers who was adopted. Later, she confesses that it was her.
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Kim's Convenience / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Kim's Convenience / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Appa often has these with Mr. Mehta, like when they argued about what frogs sounded like.
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Kim's Convenience / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Kim's Convenience / int_50ca4422	comment	Janet and Gerald are revealed to have Unresolved Sexual Tension of sorts, culminating in a kiss. Although the two stick to their respective love interests, when the two bid each other farewell before their trips Gerald says in Korean that he'll think about her every day (but Janet doesn't realize what he's saying).
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Kim's Convenience / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Kim's Convenience / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When a delinquent tries to rob the store, Jung convinces him to give up his knife for the cash register's contents. After the robber leaves, Jung plays with the knife as the police come in. They arrest Jung thinking he was robbing the store. At the church, Mrs. Kim and Mrs. Park catch Jung giving Jeanie Park a flask of alcohol. Mrs. Kim is furious as she was humiliated in front of Mrs. Park. As it turns out, the flask belongs to Mr. Park and Jeanie shoved the flask into Jung's hands when Mrs. Kim and Mrs. Park walked in. Gerald feels very uncomfortable when he hears Janet moaning and thinks she is pleasuring herself. She was actually using a neck massager.
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Kim's Convenience / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Kim's Convenience / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: While enforcing the "gay discount", Mr. Kim assumes one of the store's job applicants (actually potential suitors for Janet that Mrs. Kim got hold of) is gay and offers the discount to him. He denies it, but Mr. Kim assures him that "gay take time". Terence and a co-worker up to a certain point in the story assume Jung and Kimchee are a couple due to them living together and being close to one another.
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Kim's Convenience / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Kim's Convenience / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Mr. Kim once misspells "discount" as "discunt" on one of the signs in the store (the word is covered in some way whenever it's in the camera shot but it's made obvious that's the exact spelling Mr. Kim used). A customer finds it hilarious, whereas Pastor Nina and Mrs. Kim are horrified. Mr. Kim doesn't realize what "cunt" is and is confused as to why a big deal is being made over what he thinks is a harmless spelling mistake, leading Pastor Nina to awkwardly explain the connotations behind the word.
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Kim's Convenience / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Kim's Convenience / int_5860c090	comment	"Best Before" involves Mr. Kim and Janet making frequent trips to the bathroom after eating expired ravioli (Mr. Kim) and Mrs. Kim's galbijjim (both of them), much to the confusion of the customers and Semira (who ends up taking over them in the store when the both of them go at the same time). After finding out about the galbijjim, Mrs. Kim and Jung find great joy in seeing Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Mrs. Park take a bite of it.
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Kim's Convenience / int_59788b2c	type	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
Kim's Convenience / int_59788b2c	comment	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Characters have spoken Korean to each other a few times to avoid revealing to a non-Korean third party what they're actually saying. Pastor Nina watches a Korean drama with Mrs. Kim and her Korean friends and has no idea what the characters are saying since there's no subtitles. One of the friends gets annoyed by her frequent commentary and snarks at Mrs. Kim in Korean if she's going to talk the whole time, and Mrs. Kim replies that she only invited her to be polite. When Mr. Kim returns from his exercise and sees Pastor Nina, he too confusingly asks his wife in Korean why she's here. When Mr. Mehta and Mrs. Kim ask Janet to find out which woman made Raj (Mr. Mehta's son) break off his engagement, Janet confesses to her mother in Korean that she's that woman. She panics when Mr. Mehta picks up on the naya (ë‚˜ì•¼, "it's me"), but it turns he thinks she's talking about a woman called Naya. Mrs. Kim amusingly has the same misunderstanding, and it takes her a few moments to realize that "Naya" = ë‚˜ì•¼ = Janet. When the new friends they've made in a Season 5 episode won't go home, Mr. Kim and Mrs. Kim grumble to each other in Korean why on earth they won't leave them alone.
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Kim's Convenience / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
Kim's Convenience / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: Season 1 is a Type 4 (near-identical), with some scenes being a Type 5 (identical). It follows the plot of the play almost beat for beat while introducing all-new characters and showing several scenes outside the convenience store, allowing for the expanded running time from a one-act play into a 13-episode sitcom.
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Kim's Convenience / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Kim's Convenience / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Appa misunderstands one of Enrique's exchanges due to the unclear grammar confusing him.
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Kim's Convenience / int_5b0a8d6a	type	Racial Face Blindness
Kim's Convenience / int_5b0a8d6a	comment	Racial Face Blindness: A customer in "Rude Kid" thinks the Korean-Canadian Appa looks Japanese, "like that guy in The Last Samurai".
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Kim's Convenience / int_5bddf95f	type	Talk About the Weather
Kim's Convenience / int_5bddf95f	comment	Talk About the Weather: Mr. Chin, Mr. Mehta, and Mr. Kim are shocked by a flirty message the latter's received from a secret admirer in the convenience store's Google reviews. They are then all sent into a panic when Mrs. Kim walks in. Trying to act like nothing happened, Mr. Mehta starts talking about the weather. All he can muster, though, is, "The weather! My god! It's... everywhere."
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Kim's Convenience / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Kim's Convenience / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Appa or Umma are prone to throwing frightening glares at others (or each other) when they're annoyed. Appa even takes a photo of himself giving this frightening glare to the camera to gift to Gerald when he and Janet start living together.
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Kim's Convenience / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Kim's Convenience / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Nayoung visits with a pet tarantula, which escapes and is eventually killed by the arachnophobic Appa. They send her off with another tarantula from Petsmart, none the wiser, and Umma lets slip that she did the same thing for Janet's hamster when she was a kid.
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Kim's Convenience / int_67fe4b8e	type	Ship Sinking
Kim's Convenience / int_67fe4b8e	comment	Ship Sinking: While briefly brought into question in the Season 4 finale, any potential for romance between Janet and Gerald is officially killed off in Season 5 when they reunite after their respective trips and reaffirm that they'd rather stay friends and forget everything that happened beforehand.
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Kim's Convenience / int_6a1e475a	type	Abuse of Return Policy
Kim's Convenience / int_6a1e475a	comment	Abuse of Return Policy: Appa attempts to return a dress Umma purchased for a cancelled wedding to the store, but the employee assumes that it's a scam to return the dress after it's already been worn and inspects it for signs of use. Not liking the employee's condescending attitude, Appa tries to save face by claiming he is there to buy a purse to accompany the dress. Umma buys a new dishwasher, but Appa buys the same model from another store for a lower price using a fake flyer. After the dishwasher Appa bought is installed, he tries to return the other one to the store, but it turns out it was Umma's dishwasher that they installed and the staff member won't accept the return because Appa's dishwasher has a different serial number embedded in the door. At Jung's suggestion, Appa tries swapping the doors of the dishwashers, but he can't reconnect the complicated wiring, leaving Umma once again with an inoperable dishwasher.
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Kim's Convenience / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
Kim's Convenience / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: Mrs. Kim has a habit of taking off her ring and forgetting about it when she's doing tasks like washing the dishes, much to Mr. Kim's annoyance. He hides it and tricks her into thinking she's lost to teach her a lesson, only to accidentally lose it for real. He eventually finds it again, but not before buying his wife a new one.
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Kim's Convenience / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
Kim's Convenience / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: Mrs. Kim, her Korean friends and Pastor Nina watch a Korean drama together in one episode. Since they're not watching with subtitles, Pastor Nina is confused most of the time and keeps making comments. One of the friends grumbles to Mrs. Kim in Korean if she's going to be talking the whole time, and Mrs. Kim replies that she only invited her to be polite. Pastor Nina overhears and asks what they're saying, and Mrs. Kim cheerfully lies with, "So good, huh?"
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Kim's Convenience / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Kim's Convenience / int_7040b6bc	comment	In "Ddong Chim" after noticing an illegally parked Toyota near the store, he lectures Janet that people who purchase a Japanese product are guilty by association (noting Koreans didn't exactly get along with the Japanese in the 20th century). Janet turns it around saying that her father has a Canon camera, he tries to say he's ripping them off because he got it for half price, then he ultimately decides to not report the car because it's actually a Hyundai.
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Kim's Convenience / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Kim's Convenience / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Short-lived when Jung visits the store to see his dad after getting a text from him. Mr. Kim tells Jung he has a job for him (to help him move the dishwasher upstairs). Jung misunderstands and thinks he's saying he's found employment for him (he was jobless thanks to leaving Handy and not getting accepted at the other car rental place), so he gets defensive and says he got his job back so he doesn't need to worry. Mr. Kim was unaware of this so he's shocked and asks if Jung lost his job. Jung backtracks and say, "No! Working at Handy, still." Worried about the nature of their relationship, Kimchee approaches Terence about his hangout with Gwen the other weekend and asks how he "scoop[ed] her up". The details Terence brings up (she came to him because "a lot of people seek [him] out" due to his "reputation", and he considers her special because she has "fast fingers and a great instrument" that she got from her mother) comes off as very sexual to Kimchee, squicking him out. It's only after a couple of exchanges that Terence clarifies that he gives Gwen flute lessons.
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Kim's Convenience / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Kim's Convenience / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In Season 2 episode "Janet's Boyfriend", upon learning that Mr. Mehta's son Raj is stringing Janet along, Appa promises to yell at him, "do some Hapkido" to him, and then yell at him while doing Hapkido to him.
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Kim's Convenience / int_7220ed55	type	Token White
Kim's Convenience / int_7220ed55	comment	Token White: Jung's manager Shannon, who is from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, is the only white member of the main cast.
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Kim's Convenience / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
Kim's Convenience / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: Frank rambles about multiple stories at once that don't go anywhere, much to Appa's annoyance, but on occasion there can be a bit of wisdom in what he says.
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Kim's Convenience / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Kim's Convenience / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Jung and Shannon go to a burger place run by Chinese staff, and they witness a funny conversation between the cashier and the cook. Jung recounts this to his co-workers and imitates their accents, which everyone laughs at. Then Shannon joins in and also imitates their accents, which everyone cringes at. She has to be told afterward that it's only okay for Jung to copy their accents because he's Asian like them, whereas it just sounds racist when coming out of Shannon who is white.
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Kim's Convenience / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Kim's Convenience / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: A discussed trope when the church is having a bake sale and the traditionally masculine Mr. Kim is made to bake the nanaimo bars instead of his wife. He actually does a good job, with all the women who try them giving their approval. Jimmy however makes fun of him by calling him a wife, making multiple implications that cooking is not a manly thing to do. Mr. Kim doesn't flinch and fights back, saying that Jimmy only finds this sexist joke funny because he doesn't have a wife.
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Kim's Convenience / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
Kim's Convenience / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: After lecturing her parents for having sex on Gerald's waterbed and breaking it (and lying that a squirrel did it), she makes them promise to buy him a new bed and to never speak of this awkward incident again. Later however guilt takes over her and she confesses to Gerald about what really happened.
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Kim's Convenience / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Kim's Convenience / int_8042e814	comment	When offered tea by the waitress at a restaurant, Janet says she'd love to check out her box. While she meant the box of tea, she and her friends immediately realize the sexual implications behind that exchangenote Box is a very colloquial term for "vagina" after the waitress leaves. When a different waiter comes to serve their table, Janet worries her comment offended the woman. It later turns out the waitress left because she was sick; when she's confronted by Janet about the exchange, she laughs and thinks it was Actually Pretty Funny.
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Kim's Convenience / int_8084141a	type	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
Kim's Convenience / int_8084141a	comment	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: A customer walks in the store in the middle of Mr. and Mrs. Kim's argument about selling off the latter's grave spot. Specifically, she comes just in time to hear Mrs. Kim complaining about her husband polluting the lake with his corpse (he proposed having her take his grave and getting Janet to throw his body in the lake) and not being Together in Death, and Mr. Kim suggesting they just sell his grave and have his wife's body thrown in the lake too. The customer quietly and quickly leaves, which does not go unnoticed by Janet.
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Kim's Convenience / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Kim's Convenience / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Umma is pretty much always donning a grin even when not expressing politeness.
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Kim's Convenience / int_84d29a11	type	Drag Queen
Kim's Convenience / int_84d29a11	comment	Drag Queen: A drag queen named Therese visits the store during Gay Pride Week and is offered the "gay discount" from Mr. Kim (who thinks Therese is a transwoman and that Trans Equals Gay). Mr. Kim is confused by the concept of drag queens but is sincere when asking Therese about it and wholeheartedly accepts his answer. Mr. Kim still offers him the discount, which Therese scoffs at but accepts anyways.
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Kim's Convenience / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Kim's Convenience / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Jung's friend Alex from school, whom Janet briefly dates, does not appear again after "Service", even though he should logically still be around either on-duty or hanging out with Jung. He's later mentioned briefly as one of Janet's exes, but his whereabouts are never explained.
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Kim's Convenience / int_87b3d1fd	type	Trans Equals Gay
Kim's Convenience / int_87b3d1fd	comment	Trans Equals Gay: In order to defy accusations of being homophobic, Mr. Kim decides to give a "gay discount" to (who he thinks are) gay customers at the store during Gay Pride Week. When a Drag Queen comes to his store, he assumes he's a transwoman and offers the gay discount to him, apparently thinking gay and trans are interchangeable. Even after the customer explains he's a drag queen, he's still offered the discount which he reluctantly accepts.
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Kim's Convenience / int_88aa2bb9	type	Sucks at Dancing
Kim's Convenience / int_88aa2bb9	comment	Sucks at Dancing: Janet's shocked when she finds out that her parents' idea of date night is for her father to drop her mother off at the bus stop to go dancing while he goes golfing. She insists that Mr. Kim learn how to dance so he can accompany Mrs. Kim and have a proper date night; however, despite learning from online videos, Mr. Kim still remains terrible at dancing and neither he nor Mrs. Kim finding dancing together enjoyable. They make a point to each other and to Janet that being a happy couple does not mean spending all their time and hobbies together — Mrs. Kim loves Mr. Kim and dancing but just not the two combined, and Mr. Kim says that they'll never miss each other if they're never apart.
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Kim's Convenience / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
Kim's Convenience / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: In Season 3 Janet is horrified when she realizes her parents had sex on Gerald's waterbed, which happens twice. She eventually confronts them and scolds them, although she struggles to say it out loud the first time because she's too embarrassed. Janet avoids telling Gerald until he fixes his bed and she blurts the truth out of guilt. Janet is also very quick to leave the house in Season 2 when she realizes her parents were planning to have "together-time" that night.
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Kim's Convenience / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Kim's Convenience / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Janet misunderstands why the waitress didn't come back to serve her table (she felt unwell) and thinks it's because she made an offensive comment. She comes back to apologise, and this exchange occurs:
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Kim's Convenience / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Kim's Convenience / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The Season 2 finale: Jung and Shannon finally make their feelings clear and share a kiss, but Shannon refuses to break things off with Alejandro. Jung plans to get a new job at the rival company, which leads to him leaving Handy; however he doesn't get the job in the end, leaving him unemployed. The Kim family all reunite in one place for the first time in many years, albeit for just a few moments, something that seemed unimaginable in the beginning due to the tension between Appa and Jung. The Season 4 finale: Janet and Gerald are revealed to have Unresolved Sexual Tension of sorts, culminating in a kiss. Although the two stick to their respective love interests, when the two bid each other farewell before their trips Gerald says in Korean that he'll think about her every day (but Janet doesn't realize what he's saying). After Mr. Kim gets hospitalised, Mrs. Kim is made to also go through some tests after the doctor finds out she's been going through suspicious symptoms like clumsiness. The end of the episode hints that she has some serious condition, which the Season 5 opener confirms is multiple sclerosis.
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Kim's Convenience / int_9002083e	type	Character Exaggeration
Kim's Convenience / int_9002083e	comment	Character Exaggeration: Some traits of the Kim family are played up more in the transition from stage to screen, with Mrs. Kim and Janet in particular becoming more prone to Zany Schemes than their stage personas. This can likely be chalked up to Adaptation Expansion and the need to have more storylines.
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Kim's Convenience / int_95df2bc3	type	Big Damn Reunion
Kim's Convenience / int_95df2bc3	comment	Big Damn Reunion: In the Season 2 finale, Appa and Jung finally reconcile and the whole family reunite at a party. Unfortunately, Appa and Jung end up fighting again and they both go their separate ways at the end; however relations between them do thaw throughout the rest of the show.
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Kim's Convenience / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Kim's Convenience / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: Not wanting Jung to get the promotion at the Car Rental, Mrs. Kim not-so-subtly passes a small envelope containing money to Shannon in an attempt to bribe her. All Shannon can be seen taking out of the envelope is two toonies (two Canadian $2 coins), suggesting that it was a very modest bribe. Jung gets the promotion, so the bribe clearly doesn't work.
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Kim's Convenience / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Kim's Convenience / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the Season 4 finale, Mrs. Kim slips at the store but doesn't think much of it. Towards the end of the episode she fumbles with a pen at the hospital and is made to go through some tests after she admits she's been clumsy lately. The final scenes imply her health has deteriorated, with her and her husband concerned.
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Kim's Convenience / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Kim's Convenience / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: With a few exceptions, all other spoken Korean are given no subtitles. These instances usually aren't important enough to need any translations — whenever they are significant, enough context is usually given to the audience for them to figure things out themselves (for instance Janet telling her mother she's the woman who caused Raj to break off his engagement).
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Kim's Convenience / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Kim's Convenience / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: At the beginning of "Ddong Chim", we learn that Appa regularly reports illegally parked cars to the police, but only if the cars are Japanese. A few episodes later in "Rude Kid", this exchange occurs: Janet is occasionally shown carrying a motorcycle helmet, a nod to the motorcycle she got in the Season 2 finale.
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Kim's Convenience / int_9e03d7f6	type	Mr. Fixit
Kim's Convenience / int_9e03d7f6	comment	Mr Fix It: Frank's job is to repair stuff that's broken. Mr. Kim tries to play this role, with mixed results (he helps Kimchee fix his toilet fine but is unable to fix the store's air conditioner and so has to summon Frank).
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Kim's Convenience / int_9e80f156	type	Unfortunate Item Swap
Kim's Convenience / int_9e80f156	comment	Unfortunate Item Swap: Shannon emails Jung (who's studying in California) a seductive video of herself in dress up. However she mixes up her email attachments, meaning Jung received a work schedule meant for the Handy employers and the sexy video of her ended up being sent to... the Handy employers. She attempts to make them delete the email before they can see it but is mostly unsuccessful.
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Kim's Convenience / int_a0c41525	type	Stop Saying That!
Kim's Convenience / int_a0c41525	comment	Stop Saying That!: A variant of the phrase from both sides is said when Jung awkwardly explains what a dong chim is to Shannon and all she can focus on is the "anus" bit.
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Kim's Convenience / int_a25af902	type	The Food Poisoning Incident
Kim's Convenience / int_a25af902	comment	The Food Poisoning Incident: Mr. Kim eats expired ravioli to prove to Janet that it's okay to eat and sell at the store. He ends up needing to go to the toilet for the majority of the day and thinks it's the ravioli. Janet gloats at first but also finds herself doing the same thing later. They figure out it's because of Mrs. Kim's galbijjim which they both ate, and they quickly call her to throw it out at a church event she's helping out at so no one else gets sick. She does throw it out and warn everyone, but not before her Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Mrs. Park takes a bite.
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Kim's Convenience / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Kim's Convenience / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: Although the Kims' Protestant faith is a large part of the story and is portrayed fairly decently, they keep a statue of the Virgin Mary and Catholic candles in the store near their personal things, both which are Catholic traits. (To be fair, about a quarter of Korean Canadians are Catholic.)
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Kim's Convenience / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Kim's Convenience / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In "Sneak Attack", Umma brings several dishes of food to Jung and Kimchee's apartment. When Kimchee reaches for one of the dishes, Umma slaps his hand and says, "Save for later!" A little while later, Kimchee reaches for another dish and Umma slaps his hand and says, "I say later!" Kimchee then opens a container of yogurt that he bought for himself, and Umma slaps his hand again, this time because the yogurt is expired.
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Kim's Convenience / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
Kim's Convenience / int_ab1064b3	comment	Modesty Towel: Grace comes out of the bathroom in Jung and Kimchee's apartment wearing only a towel after her date with Jung and spending the night there. Jung comes out of the shower with only a tower to cover his waist in one episode when Kimchee's date arrives at their apartment. Kimchee is annoyed to no end because he was trying to get Jung to stop "stealing" his dates.
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Kim's Convenience / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Kim's Convenience / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Not only is the old white guy selling sneakers to Jung and Shannon an annoying racist towards Jung, but he also makes belittling sexist remarks towards Shannon, asking if she's on her period because of how cranky she's being and that she'd "be pretty if [she] smiled". Jung is willing to wave off the racism so he can quickly get the sneakers, but gets angry and initially calls the deal off the moment the sexist remarks begin. Church parishioner Jimmy Young, who loudly and regularly makes rude and sexist jokes which are so blatant that just about no one on the show likes him.
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Kim's Convenience / int_aefd2a14	type	Pinky Swear
Kim's Convenience / int_aefd2a14	comment	Pinky Swear: When Mr. Kim lies and says Mrs. Kim has a lump on her back, he makes Janet swear not to discuss the matter with her and they do a pinky swear. It ends up being futile as Janet blurts the "secret" out to her mother (and so finds out that it's her father who has the lump).
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Kim's Convenience / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Kim's Convenience / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: In the opening scene of "The Handyman," Naya and Reshma (two Muslim women of the same age and height with veiled faces) come into the store and Appa greets them each by name. Another customer named Roger is curious about how Appa can tell them apart and Appa mentions a few subtle differences between them that he has come to notice. After Appa goes into the back to get something, the two women good-naturedly tell Roger that Appa gets their names wrong about 50 percent of the time but they appreciate that he tries. In "Business Award," Gerald tells Janet that one of their neighbors keeps calling him Ray.
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Kim's Convenience / int_b2a06892	type	Fourth Wall Psych
Kim's Convenience / int_b2a06892	comment	Fourth Wall Psych: A clip posted to the series' social media to hype up Season 3's premiere has Mr. and Mrs. Kim at the store dressed in hanboknote traditional Korean clothes, wishing viewers (and their kids and grandkids) a happy new year and saying that they love and miss them. Then Janet arrives in the background and asks her parents who they're talking to — turns out they were recording a New Year's video for Janet to watch in the future when she (presumably) has grandchildren and when her parents have passed on (so they can watch her watch them in the video). Janet is understandably unsettled. Mr. and Mrs. Kim attempt to do more takes but Janet interrupts them every time.
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Kim's Convenience / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
Kim's Convenience / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: "Best Before" involves Mr. Kim and Janet making frequent trips to the bathroom after eating expired ravioli (Mr. Kim) and Mrs. Kim's galbijjim (both of them), much to the confusion of the customers and Semira (who ends up taking over them in the store when the both of them go at the same time). After finding out about the galbijjim, Mrs. Kim and Jung find great joy in seeing Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Mrs. Park take a bite of it. In "The Appa-Liance", Mr. Kim makes a few awkward trips to the freezer area to do his farts since he finds it rude to do it in front of Mrs. Mehta, which does not go unnoticed by her. He then has a good chuckle when he makes an oblivious Janet go fetch him a drink from the freezer and get a whiff of said fart, in exchange for letting her take the day off from work.
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Kim's Convenience / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Kim's Convenience / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Enrique, one of the regular customers, insists on carrying all his goods in his arms as he is opposed to the use of plastic bags. Things don't work too well for him in the end.
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Kim's Convenience / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Kim's Convenience / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Shannon tries to explain in a roundabout way the decision to use a standee of Jung to promote their car rental business. Mrs. Kim gets straight to the point: Jung and Kimchee plan to watch the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The disapproving Janet's response? "You've planned to do that? Isn't it something that just happens?" Although the name is never mentioned, Janet and Gerald are clearly watching an episode of Riverdale in Season 2. Janet asks Gerald if he likes the show they're watching, to which he complains that Archie is supposed to have "this lovable freckle-face" and not "all brooding angles" with abs. While cringing over mistaking two black waitresses for each other, Janet calls the feat a "white guy mistake".
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Kim's Convenience / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Kim's Convenience / int_b5785433	comment	Cold Open: Every episode opens up with a scene, sometimes setting up the plot(s) for the episode and sometimes just done as a one-off gag, before going on to show the opening credits.
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Kim's Convenience / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Kim's Convenience / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Korean mothers in the show are shown to be rather clingy and obsessive over their children. One example is when Jung and his ex-girlfriend Grace are about to go on a date, only to find both their mothers waiting for them at the restaurant because, as it turns out, the two plotted the whole thing.
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Kim's Convenience / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Kim's Convenience / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Events or statements contradicting what they've originally said is a trademark of some characters, especially Mr. Kim: In "Janet's Photos", Mr. Kim is clearly enthusiastic when Semira shows the nude photography she took of what appears to be female models but then shows his disapproval when he goes through Gerald's work for the same assignment and sees that he used himself as the model. In "Ddong Chim" after noticing an illegally parked Toyota near the store, he lectures Janet that people who purchase a Japanese product are guilty by association (noting Koreans didn't exactly get along with the Japanese in the 20th century). Janet turns it around saying that her father has a Canon camera, he tries to say he's ripping them off because he got it for half price, then he ultimately decides to not report the car because it's actually a Hyundai. Mrs. Kim is upset during the cold open of "Wingman" because Mr. Kim keeps letting people use the store's bathroom for emergencies. Mr. Kim maintains that going to the bathroom is "a basic human right"... until a rather washout character comes in and asks to use the bathroom. Mr. Kim then says their toilet is broken and tells him to use the one next door. This classic exchange from "House Guest", while arguing whether to let their pastor stay at their house: In "Good Neighbours", Appa is drinking a healthy juice beverage with the fitness instructor from next door and talking about how "health is so important." Umma then points out that he had a Twinkie for breakfast. Janet berates Jung for taking advantage of their mother's kindness (having her come over to his place to bring food and even do other housework like laundry). While Jung tries to defend himself, the security guard from the film festival returns from the bathroom, and everyone finds out that Janet's been tricking the guard with her fake tragic backstory as a North Korean filmmaker so that she can sneak into more film events. Jung very much rubs this in her face after the guard storms out.
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Kim's Convenience / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Kim's Convenience / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The usually chill Janet blows up on Nayoung when she gets sick of her Kawaiiko ways and being "upstaged" by her as Koreans, emphasised by the F-bomb:
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Kim's Convenience / int_bc708f73	type	Mistaken for Masturbating
Kim's Convenience / int_bc708f73	comment	Mistaken for Masturbating: Gerald hears Janet in her room moaning, along with a vibrating noise and assumes she's pleasuring herself. He continues to assume this when he hears Janet and her parents talking about "massage-kigae", only to find out that the "massage-kigae" is just a neck massager.
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Kim's Convenience / int_bf3c7344	type	Snooty Sports
Kim's Convenience / int_bf3c7344	comment	Snooty Sports: In "Tennis Anyone?", Mr. and Mrs. Kim pretend that they're wealthy so they can play at a private tennis court in an upper-class neighbourhood. They play with a well-off couple and become friends, but the Kims feel that they need to keep inflating how much money they have to maintain their charade, assuming their new tennis pals will look down on them if they find out the Kims just own a small convenience store. Eventually the Kims build themselves up so much that the couple thinks the Kims are too rich and snobbish for them.
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Kim's Convenience / int_bfc84d44	type	Calling Parents by Their Name
Kim's Convenience / int_bfc84d44	comment	Calling Parents by Their Name: One of the customers at the convenience store allows her son to call her by her name, so Mr. Kim gets confused and mistakes her for his babysitter when he sees the kid call her Paula. This sparks a conversation between him and Mr. Mehta about being respectful with how one refers to each other.
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Kim's Convenience / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
Kim's Convenience / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: The misleading way Mrs. Kim delivers her "urgent" news regarding Janet's lack of love life nearly throws Jung off. Kimchee thinks his crush Gwen is dating Terence and confronts him about it. Terence finds this funny, setting up a classic "we're just friends" clarification. What he actually tells a relieved Kimchee? "That's hilarious that you thought we were still dating."
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Kim's Convenience / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Kim's Convenience / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: Appa does this very frequently during arguments; occasionally he does it multiple times in a row. When Umma gets a call from Mrs. Lee regarding the whereabouts of her daughter (they're both at Jung's place), she lies and says she doesn't know. Although viewers don't hear Mrs. Lee, Umma hastily replies with, "No, you sound weird!" and hangs up, making it clear Mrs. Lee certainly didn't believe her.
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Kim's Convenience / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Kim's Convenience / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: The Korean equivalent of the ass-shove prank, the dong chim, becomes a focus of an episode subplot when Jung decides to pull one on Kimchee while in the office as a joke. This comes back to haunt him when Kimchee decides to use it to make a sexual harassment complaint against him in retaliation for getting scolded at work.
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Kim's Convenience / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Kim's Convenience / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Shannon's "erotic dance moves" for Jung turns out to be her doing highland dancing in a kilt. While impressive, it's not nearly as seductive as she thinks it is. Jung puts up with it but objects when she attempts to do them again, where she reveals that she also finds his 90s Boy Band dance moves embarrassing. Hilariously, the two realize they find it hot when they do the other's' respective dances; at the end, Jung is shown walking out of the bedroom wearing nothing but the kilt.
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Kim's Convenience / int_c7502712	type	Way Past the Expiration Date
Kim's Convenience / int_c7502712	comment	Way Past the Expiration Date: Mr. Kim gets annoyed when Janet takes down the expired ravioli he was trying to sell at the store and attempts to prove they're still fine by eating one of the cans. Sure enough, he at least gets a scare when he makes frequent trips to the bathroom that day and gets sick (it turns out Mrs. Kim's galbijjim, which both he and the sick Janet ate, went bad too, so it's not 100% clear if the ravioli also had any effect or not). A nice Kim family dinner moment sours a little when they find out the biscuits they're eating for dessert taste very off. Janet asks her dad how long he's had these biscuits, but he dodges the question.
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Kim's Convenience / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Kim's Convenience / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Season 1 Episode 1, Mr. Kim laments that people should be gay in a respectful and quiet manner, like Anderson Cooper and Neil Patrick Harris. In Season 1 Episode 5, in a Korean newspaper that Mr. Kim is reading, a photo of the Korean Pop Music girl group Sistar can be seen on one of the pages. In Season 5 Episode 3, Mr. Kim mockingly calls Gerald "Charlie Brown" because of his treasured blanket from his grandma (which was unknowingly used as a wash rag and ripped apart by Mr. Kim beforehand). Gerald tries to point out multiple times that it isn't Charlie who owns the Security Blanket in the Peanuts series (it's Linus, and he's referenced in the episode title "Appa & Linus"), but Mr. Kim still gets it wrong.
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Kim's Convenience / int_c86b7046	type	It's Not Porn, It's Art
Kim's Convenience / int_c86b7046	comment	It's Not Porn, It's Art: The folio work Mr. Kim first sees from Gerald comprises nude photos of himself (he couldn't find a model). Despite it being legit photography work, Mr. Kim is thrown off by the nudity and keeps thinking of Gerald as a crazed pornographic photographer. He initially refuses to have his photo taken by him for this reason and gets the wrong idea when he finds out Gerald took Mrs. Kim's photo instead.
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Kim's Convenience / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Mr. and Mrs. Kim's first names are unknown in the original play. The sitcom averts this as the Season 1 episode "Handyman" reveals their names are Sang-il and Yung-mi, but on-screen they are primarily referred to as Mr/Mrs. Kim or Appa/Umma (by their children).
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Kim's Convenience / int_ccdbccb0	type	Heartbreak and Ice Cream
Kim's Convenience / int_ccdbccb0	comment	Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Janet takes some ice-cream and other snacks from her parents' store to her room after finding out Raj (the boy she was casually seeing) became engaged without even breaking up with her first, let alone telling her beforehand. After giving the boy a verbal beatdown, Appa offers Janet more of his "sad-food group" and joins her.
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Kim's Convenience / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Kim's Convenience / int_cdac8795	comment	When Kimchee is Gene Hunting for his Disappeared Dad, Shannon tells him about a friend of hers who was adopted. Later, she confesses that it was her.
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Kim's Convenience / int_cde175c8	comment	Fake Static: Jung tries to fake a bad connection over video chat with Kimchee, making it look like his screen is freezing up, but Kimchee can see his fan moving in the background at normal speed.
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Kim's Convenience / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Fittingly, comes up in the episode "Rude Child". Mrs. Murray, Janet's professor, brings her son to Kim's Convenience. The child runs across the store, makes a mess and ransacks bags of chips. Mrs. Murray refuses to discipline her child and demands an apology from Mr. Kim when he flicks the boy's head. The mother and son duo do not improve by the end of the episode, with the son still making a mess and the mother promising iPad time to get him to listen to her rather than properly disciplining him.
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Kim's Convenience / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Shannon often says things and immediately tries to back-pedal when she realizes how off it sounds, such as saying she was known as the "rebound girl"(because of basketball) back at school or being the "town bicycle" (because she used to bike around her hometown). Grace Lee tells Jung that if he wants to ask her out, he should do it quickly because she "charges by the hour." She then clarifies it's because she is a lawyer. Mrs. Kim complains to Janet that Mr. Kim wants to lie down next to another woman. She's talking about his grave being next to another person's grave (which was originally Mrs. Kim's before her husband sold it), but Janet naturally misunderstands it as cheating. Mr. Kim makes it worse by trying to clarify it with, "Not now, when I die!", to which a disgusted Janet replies with, "Ew!" When offered tea by the waitress at a restaurant, Janet says she'd love to check out her box. While she meant the box of tea, she and her friends immediately realize the sexual implications behind that exchangenote Box is a very colloquial term for "vagina" after the waitress leaves. When a different waiter comes to serve their table, Janet worries her comment offended the woman. It later turns out the waitress left because she was sick; when she's confronted by Janet about the exchange, she laughs and thinks it was Actually Pretty Funny.
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Kim's Convenience / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Alejandro (somehow) successfully puts this to good use when arguing with his love interests. When he's trying to take furniture back from his ex's house, they have an argument which they decide to "sort out" in her bedroom, and things suddenly go quiet; it's clear to Jung what really happened in there after Alejandro comes out while still putting his shirt on and his ex suddenly acting sweeter than before. When Jung brings this up to Shannon, she and Alejandro argue and decide to settle it in the utility room, where things also suddenly go quiet. The two come out after a long time while looking a little dishevelled, again making it obvious what happened. In Season 4, after breaking up with Alejandro, Shannon and Jung disagree over whether it's too soon for them to start dating and get into a heated argument. The very next scene is the two of them making out in the utility room.
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Kim's Convenience / int_d320bbd5	comment	Insult Friendly Fire: A variant. Mrs. Kim is in a middle of giving a child piano lessons when Mr. Kim serves a customer. Mr. Kim complains about how awful her students are and how they never improve because they repeat their mistakes all the time. The customer awkwardly points out afterward that his daughter is one of the students — in fact, his daughter is the very student in the current lesson that Mr. Kim was specifically ranting about, and he came to pick her up.
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Kim's Convenience / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In the pilot, Mr. Kim worries that money's been stolen when he's checking how much the store's made and notices that it's less than it should be. He initially considers Janet as a possible suspect, to her horror. However, he and Mrs. Kim soon realize that the loss in money is because of the "gay discount" Mr. Kim spontaneously enforced.
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Kim's Convenience / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Jung is greeted with a "konnichiwa" from the old white guy he's trying to buy sneakers off of. The guy then apologises and says, "It's the only Oriental I know." This is only the first of many offensive remarks, both racist and sexist, that he spouts at Jung and Shannon.
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Kim's Convenience / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: After hooking up with Kimchee, Nayoung refers to her intimacy with him as their "fun-together-time". Due to misunderstanding Janet's neck-massaging sessions, Gerald mistakes the term "massage-kigae" as some Korean term for masturbation (it's just a massaging device). Cue his horrified looks when Janet, Mrs. Kim and Mr. Kim casually talk about having some massage-kigae time, including Mr. Kim wanting to use it quickly before leaving the store and Mrs. Kim telling him to "just use cream" while in the car. Mr. Kim, dressed in nothing but his robe and boxers is annoyed when he finds Janet (who's moved out at this point) settling at home to watch a movie, saying that this is his "together-time" with Mrs. Kim which they do after their "apart time". Janet thinks nothing of it and finds it cute, not understanding what "together-time" actually means until she hears her mother calling for her father from their bedroom upstairs and then quickly leaves.
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Kim's Convenience / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: Mr. Kim believes that Janet should take over the store when he retires. In the series finale, they consider offering the position to Jung.
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Kim's Convenience / int_dd0c5d58	comment	Of the four characters played by the same actor in the play, only Jung's friend Alex is still in the show. A Mr. Lee exists in the show but is unlike Mr. Kim's friend with the same name in the original (he's Korean instead of black and is merely the husband of Mrs. Kim's friend Mrs. Lee), and Rich and Mike are nowhere to be seen. invoked
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Kim's Convenience / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Although they otherwise have a fairly stable marriage, this is snarked about by Mr. and Mrs. Kim when talking to the recently-separated Frank about their marriage.
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Kim's Convenience / int_e21cfc56	comment	Newhart Phonecall: Mrs. Kim answers a phone call from Mrs. Lee. We don't hear Mrs Lee but we can easily guess what she's saying based on Mrs. Kim's replies ("No, I don't know where Grace is." "No, you sound weird!"). Jung gets called back by the rival car company he was applying for at the end of Season 2. Based on his disappointed reactions, the audience can infer the company has rejected Jung due to his teen delinquent past.
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Kim's Convenience / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Many of the older immigrant characters are usually called by their surname with the appropriate honorifics, such as Mr. and Mrs. Kim, presumably because they're easier to remember than their first names. Discussed and Played for Laughs when Mr. Kim and Mr. Mehta realize they call each other this way because they don't remember each other's first names to begin with.
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Kim's Convenience / int_e2cfb212	comment	Fake Relationship: In one episode, Omar lies to his parents and tells them Shannon's his girlfriend, to get them off his back about finding someone (Shannon had encouraged him to lie to them, she just didn't think he'd use her as his fake girlfriend). She comes clean when his grandmother tries to make them kiss, which results in his whole family hating her (and his grandma apparently putting a curse on her).
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Kim's Convenience / int_e83f211c	comment	The parents are actually willing to close the store to celebrate Jung finishing high school, which upsets Janet since they wouldn't close the store for her.
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Kim's Convenience / int_e90f5682	comment	But Not Too Gay: In "Gay Discount" when Mr. Kim says he has no problems with gay people but doesn't like the Pride Parade because it's crowded and noisy. Appa hilariously inverts this later on in "Gay Discount" when he starts enforcing the aforementioned discount and refuses to give it to the gay and obviously effeminate regular customer Enrique because he apparently doesn't act gay enough, not even after bringing in a boyfriend to the store as proof.
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Kim's Convenience / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Janet befriends a fellow volunteer in Season 5 and invites her to her house, assuming they are the same age since the girl looks like a young adult (plus has been volunteering longer and acts mature). Turns out the new friend is actually still in high school... something Janet only learns right after giving the girl a few glasses of wine (leading to her throwing up), much to her horror.
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Kim's Convenience / int_ebf3c9d1	comment	Asian Store-Owner: Mr. Kim and Mrs. Kim are the Korean owners of the titular store, with Janet often helping out (although she's against the idea of inheriting the store from her father).
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Kim's Convenience / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: In the first season, whenever Shannon tries to hit on Jung or be alone with him, something always comes up to interrupt them. Jung and Mr. Kim seem to be setting up another father-son bonding moment when they run into each other while collecting their lunches at a restaurant and suggest eating together, only for the cashier to interrupt and bluntly inform them that they can't dine here since they specifically ordered takeaway.
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Kim's Convenience / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
Kim's Convenience / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: Combined with Not What It Looks Like, Jung tries to explain to his co-workers what a ddong chim (a Korean wedgie) is. His explanations get increasingly more awkward and sexually disturbing. Janet makes an accidentally sexual comment to a waitress who does not seem to react well, and comes back to the restaurant to apologise to her. Unfortunately, she gets another waitress mixed up with her because they're both black and wear similar braided hairstyles, and she runs away before she can be confronted. Name-dropped by Mrs. Kim in the series finale when Janet says Jung "can do so much better" than taking over the store, and then tries to say she didn't mean that running the store wasn't meaningful.
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Kim's Convenience / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Mr. and Mrs. Kim start taking English classes and show off all the fancy vocabulary they've learned to Janet. Played for Laughs and downplayed as majority of the words are only fancy for their standards:
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Kim's Convenience / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Mrs. Kim volunteers her husband to help their church sell tickets to a Korean singers' concert. A confused and annoyed Mr. Kim asks his wife when he agreed to this, and she cheerfully replies, "When you marry me."
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Kim's Convenience / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: A Discussed Trope when it turns out Mr. Kim sold his wife's grave spot years ago in order to fix the cooler, meaning only his grave spot remains. Mrs. Kim is very unhappy, since the point of reserving both their graves next to each other was so that they can be together "forever and ever in eternity". They eventually compromise and decide to be buried together "bunk-bed style" (be buried in the same grave and have whoever dies second be on top of the other).
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Kim's Convenience / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A few quirks or gags occur frequently in the series. The first episode has Kim family members unexpectedly turning up to Jung's work place and Shannon running into them at inopportune times. Lampshaded when the last of them (Mr. Kim) appears and she asks Jung how many family members he has, and he promises his dad is the last one. Pastor Choi casually taking the belongings of one of the women when they're doing volunteering work at the church, followed by someone exclaiming something along the lines of "he took my/your __". Mr. Kim bringing up the Japanese invasion, and being anti-Japan in general. Pastor Nina blurting out to everyone that Mrs. Park is seeing her for marriage counseling. Pastor Nina sincerely attempting (and often failing) to pronounce Korean words/phrases correctly, and checking with a Korean speaker like Mrs. Kim if she's saying it right. Enrique, one of the regular customers, insists on carrying all his goods in his arms as he is opposed to the use of plastic bags. Things don't work too well for him in the end. No matter what the subject of a conversation is, Mr. Chin will nearly always manage to bring his spoiled dog Ginger into it somehow. Appa and Umma constantly accusing each other of "doing sneak attack." Mrs. Kim tries her best to avoid Mr. Mehta's incredibly physical greetings.
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Kim's Convenience / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Janet and Gerald's apartment seems surprisingly spacious and decent considering both are college students with only casual jobs at best (and Janet doesn't even get paid since it's the family convenience store). The one possibility for them being able to afford the place is Mr. and Mrs. Kim helping out since they don't want Janet living in an unsafe cheap place (and Mr. Kim is more than keen to be alone in the house with his wife). Chelsea later moves in and pays her share (and it's implied she has a lot of money), making this more believable. Jung and Kimchi's apartment includes a bedroom plus a den (re-purposed as Jung's bedroom). While it would cost less than a full two-bedroom, it still looks pricey for two employees of a car rental agency even in a less affluent neighbourhood of Toronto.
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Kim's Convenience / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Long story short, a bum tries to steal a bicycle by cutting off the chains, but the owner yells from afar. The bum shoves the cutters in Jung's hands and runs. Jung says he was looking for a pair of cutters like these, while Kimchee tells him to run before they get caught.
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Kim's Convenience / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: Jung's many Walking Shirtless Scene pop up at least once a season to make use of him as the Mr. Fanservice.
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Kim's Convenience / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish: Purposely done for Mr. and Mrs Kim, who immigrated from Korea to Canada as adults, and Nayoung, a relative visiting from Korea who eventually studies in Waterloo; their English is broken and accented, but done in a more realistic manner and not used for mockery. Mr. and Mrs. Kim are also prone to careless grammatical or spelling mistakes in their writing as a result. As Janet, Jung and Kimchee were all born and raised in Canada, their first language is English and so are fluent (although Janet once abuses this trope to pretend to be a foreigner and wriggle her way out of a security situation).
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