Why âKimâs Convenienceâ Is âQuietly Revolutionaryâ
In not explaining every detail of Korean food culture, the award-winning Canadian sitcom speaks volumes.
The main cast of “Kim’s Convenience.” The show’s final season will premiere on Netflix on Wednesday.Credit.CBC
By Priya Krishna
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In the second episode of the television show âKimâs Convenience,â thereâs a moment that has always stuck with Diane Paik.
Umma, the matriarch of the Kim family, arrives at the apartment of her estranged son, Jung, carrying containers of kimbap.
Itâs not a particularly pivotal scene, but it immediately brought Ms. Paik, 30, a senior social media manager for the menâs grooming company Harryâs, back to the many times her own parents drove 10 hours from their home in West Bloomfield, Mich., to her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, always with their homemade kimchi in tow.