{"id":25721,"date":"2021-06-07T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=25721"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:59:30","slug":"kims-convenience-racist-storylines","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kims-convenience-racist-storylines\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kim\u2019s Convenience\u2019 Stars Call Out Lack of Diversity and Racist Storylines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25724\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25724\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-611040152-e1623079505799.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The cast of 'Kim's Convenience'\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of &#8216;Kim&#8217;s Convenience&#8217; (Photo: GP Images\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canadian sitcom <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> may have ended its five-season run earlier this month, but the conversation about the show\u2019s behind-the-scenes strife continues. Over the weekend, star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/larryfitzmaurice\/kims-convenience-jean-yoon-painful-experience\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Yoon<\/a>, who played matriarch Kim Yong-mi took to <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/black-twitter-snl-appropriation\/\">Twitter<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jean_yoon\/status\/1401632203629633542\" target=\"_blank\">back up<\/a> co-star Simu Liu\u2019s claims of diversity problems on the show. In a post responding to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/television\/article-bitterness-abounds-more-fallout-from-kims-convenience\/\" target=\"_blank\">opinion column<\/a> about Liu\u2019s \u201cbitterness,\u201d Yoon said that the lack of Korean female writers on the show made the experience of working on <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> \u201cpainful.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear sir, as an Asian Canadian woman, a Korean-Canadian woman w more experience and knowledge of the world of my characters, the lack of Asian female, especially Korean writers in the writers room of Kims made my life VERY DIFFICULT &amp; the experience of working on the show painful<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jean Yoon (\uc724 \uc9c4 \ud76c or \u5c39\u771f\u59ec) (@jean_yoon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jean_yoon\/status\/1401632203629633542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liu, who will soon appear as the lead in <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/eternals-marvel-chloe-zhao\/\">Marvel<\/a>\u2019s <em>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/em>, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/kims-convenience-netflix-cancelation-1234963806\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously posted<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/donald-trump-facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> about his own frustrating experience on the show. \u201cI remain fixated on the missed opportunities to show Asian characters with real depth and the ability to grow and evolve,\u201d he wrote. He claimed that series creator Ins Choi did little to promote fellow Korean voices in the show\u2019s writers room, a claim which Yoon backed up on Twitter, pointing to Choi\u2019s diminished role compared to showrunner Kevin White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Choi wrote the play, I was in in,\u201d she wrote in the same tweet thread. \u201cHe created the TV show, but his co-creator Mr. Kevin White was the showrunner, and clearly set the parameters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yoon also claims that the cast expressed concern over what she calls \u201covertly racist\u201d storylines in the Season 5 scripts they received in advance of filming during the pandemic. She describes one scene in which her character was to wear shorts that made her appear naked, which she found particularly offensive given the over-sexualization of Asian women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHAT scene would have aired hours after 8 people, 6 Asian women, were shot in Atlanta, GA in a hate crime spree that shocked the nation. THIS IS WHY IT MATTERS,\u201d Yoon wrote. \u201cIf an Asian actor says, &#8216;Hey this isn&#8217;t cool,&#8217; then maybe should just fix it, and say THANK YOU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to both actors\u2019 allegations, the show\u2019s official Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimsConvenience\/status\/1401716761511268356?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> screenshots of <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> writer Anita Kapila\u2019s posts in support of the show. \u201cToday I want to publicly acknowledge the women and BIPOC I was honoured to work alongside,\u201d she writes alongside a list of writers, directors and crew members who worked on the show. \u201cWe were not perfect. 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