Earlier that day, he appeared on a CBC news program and mentioned that creator Ins Choi was the one who walked away and even stopped taking his calls when he tried to find out exactly what happened The show was cancelled because it seems the producers could not find another Korean-Canadian writer who was good[...]
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That estrangement forms the backstory of the entire show and was actually the story of creator Ins Choi's original play Kim's Convenience from 2011, where Mr Kim throw Jung out of the house for delinquent behavior, stealing from his father, getting a juvenile record and scandalizing the family The series itself begins years later when[...]
So far, there has been no explanation for why beyond the producers announced that the show's creators had opted to move on.
Kim's Convenience is the little sitcom that could, a light comedy based on a 2011 play by Ins Choi and developed into a sitcom in 2016 It follows a Korean immigrant family in Toronto[...]