APPA: What you think, Kim’s Variety Store?

UMMA: Kim’s Variety Store?

APPA: Yah. Kim’s Variety Store. What you think?

UMMA: Mr. Kim has already.

APPA: Who Mr. Kim?

UMMA: Yonge and Finch Mr. Kim.

APPA: Mr. Kim, Yonge and Finch, has Kim’s Variety Store? Then just Kim’s Variety. Take out “store.” What you think?

UMMA: Kim’s Variety?

APPA: Yah.

UMMA: St. George Mr. Kim has already.

APPA: St. who?

UMMA: St. George.

APPA: Who is St. George?

UMMA: St. George is St. George.

APPA: St. George? Sound like St. Jajee.

UMMA: Not St. Jajee, St. George.

APPA: Kim Cheese. Like Mac’s Milk, but Kim and cheese.

UMMA: We don’t only sell cheese.

APPA: Mac’s don’t only sell milk. (Beat.) 7-Twelve. Like 7-Eleven but . . . (Beat.) KFC. Kim’s First Convenience. No, people think we is Kentucky Fries Chicken. Then we have to sell chicken, fries, and turkey. (Beat.) Kim Hortons.

UMMA: Rubbing her belly. What you think of name is Jung? (Pause.) If baby is boy, Jung Kim. What you think?

17. What is it?

Store. Night.

APPA: 언제 왔어? [When did you get in?]

UMMA: 조금 전에요. 내가 해논거 다 먹었어요? [Just got here. Did you eat?]

APPA: 먹었어. 왜 그래? [Yeah. What is it?]

UMMA: 아니에요 . . . Janet 은 요? [Nothing . . . Where’s Janet?]

APPA: 나갔겠지. 주일날 최집사님이 저녁 같이 하자네. 듣고있어? 왜 그러냐니까? [Out. Mr. Chae wants to have us over for dinner this Sunday. Did you hear me? What’s wrong?]

UMMA: 아니에요. 당신이 알아서 해요. 저 먼저 올라가요. [Nothing. Yeah, it’s fine. I’m going up.]

APPA: 뭐냐니까? 여보? 여보? 여보? 아이씨 참! [What is it? Honey? Honey?]

UMMA takes the tray of food and exits to the back.

APPA looks at Mr. Lee’s offer and picks up the phone.

18. Who you go out with?

JANET enters. Bell.

JANET: Closing?

APPA: Soon.

JANET: Want some help?

APPA: It’s okay.

JANET: How’s business?

APPA: Same same. (JANET begins to exit to the back.) You go out?

JANET: Yeah.

APPA: Who you go out with?

JANET: Alex.

APPA: Alex? Black police Alex?

JANET: Coming forward. Yes.

APPA: You used to have crush on him. You have fun time?

JANET: Yeah.

APPA: Beat. You remember Mr. Chae?

JANET: Ingoo’s Appa?

APPA: Yah. He is having store in South Central L.A., California. Lots of black people is living there too. One day black lady is come and ask five-dollar loan. So, he give loan five dollar. Next week, she come and pay back. No interest. Then she ask loan ten dollar. And he give and she pay back. And continue. They have good friendship. She tell all her friend, and they come and ask loan too. He is help all of them. Then 1992. Rodney King L.A. riot happen. All Korean convenience store is on fire and black people stealing. So he take shotgun and go to store. When he gets out of car, he see fire and smoke, people screaming, running, crazy, and he look at store. He see all black people in front of store. So, he get gun, ready to shoot, then he stop. What he see is that black woman who he give to loan and all his black customer hold hand, make big wall, stop other people stealing his store.