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Contents ( 9)
  1. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  2. FOREWORD
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. PHOTO INSERT
  5. REFLECTIONS ON KIM’S CONVENIENCE From Stage to Screen
  6. Ivan Fecan Executive Chair of Thunderbird Films
  7. Jean Yoon Actor, Playing the Role of “Umma” in Kim’s Convenience, the TV Series
  8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  9. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

JANET: Seriously?

APPA: Seriously!!

UMMA enters with her jacket on, carrying her purse and a covered tray of food.

UMMA: To APPA. 그만해 아이씨참!! [Will you two quit it!!]

JANET, with a mischievous smile, exits to the back of the store.

APPA restocks the gum shelf as UMMA puts the tray of food behind the counter.

6. I’m going

UMMA: 내가 이따가 와서 치울께요. [Just leave it, I’ll clean it up when I get back.]

APPA: 주일날 최집사님이 저녁 같이 하자네. 시간돼? [This Sunday Mr. Chae wants to get together for dinner. How’s your schedule?]

UMMA: Picking up LEE’S card. 이게 뭐에요? [What’s this?]

APPA: 어 . . . 그거 . . . 그러니까 그게 . . . Mr. Lee 가 오퍼넌거야 . . . 우리가게. [Oh . . . that’s, uh . . . Mr. Lee’s offer . . . for the store.]

UMMA: 오퍼요? 가게 판다는 얘기 안했잖아요. [I didn’t know you were selling the store.]

APPA: 팔려고 하는게 아니라 . . . Mr.Lee 방금 오퍼를 상의도 없이 주고 갔데니까. [I wasn’t . . . Mr. Lee just made an offer. Just now.]

UMMA: 가격은 꽤 괜찮네. [It’s a generous offer.]

APPA: 그러게 . . . [I know . . .]

UMMA: 은퇴할 수 있겠네. [You could retire.]

APPA: 그러게. [I know.]

UMMA: Beat. Gets herself together. Janet, I’m going. Janet, I’m going to church. Janet? Janet!

JANET appears.

JANET: What?!

UMMA: 엄마 갔다올께. [I’m going to church.]

JANET: Then 가 [go] already.

UMMA: Under her breath as she leaves. 아휴, 이 기집애 때매 내가 죽겠다, 죽겠어. [Ugh, I swear, she’s gonna be the death of me, the death of me.]

UMMA exits. Bell.

7. What’s your plan?

APPA resumes pricing the cans. JANET is organizing her camera lenses and lens-cleaning materials at the counter.

APPA: Janet.

JANET: What, Appa, she drives me crazy!

APPA: Do you have exit plan?

JANET: What?

APPA: Do you have exit plan?

JANET: Do I have a what?

APPA stops pricing.

APPA: Exit plan. You having?

JANET: An exit plan? For what?

APPA: No, like what’s you life plan?

JANET: What are you talking about?

APPA: You is thirty years old now. Have to think what is plan you future. What you think, take over store?

JANET: I don’t want to work at the store.

APPA: What’s wrong with store?

JANET: How can I work at the store, Appa? I’m busy.

APPA: Not work at store. I am talking take over store. Make Kim’s Convenience dynasty.

JANET: Take over the store?

APPA: Yah.

JANET: Don’t you want me to succeed in life? Look, Appa, you did what you had to do, right? And I appreciate that. I do. But didn’t you do what you had to do so I wouldn’t have to do what I had to do but could choose what I wanted to do?

APPA: What?

JANET: I’m a photographer, Appa. This is what I’ve chosen to do.

APPA: Yah, you can do weekend. Hobby, like me. But you don’t make money take picture. Store make money. Take over store: money. Picture: hobby. It’s good deal for you.