How Kim's Convenience went from reject pile to national TVmore stories from this episodeFull EpisodeAfter having his play, Kim's Convenience, rejected by every major theatre company in Toronto, writer Ins Choi remembers thinking, "I just want to see it onstage once." Ins Choi and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee of Kim's Convenience pose in a replica of the TV show's convenience store located in the lobby of Toronto's CBC building. It's my family's story," says the show's star, comedian Paul Sun-Hyung Lee who plays Appa, the family patriarch. In fact, something clicked after he read Kim's Convenience for the first time. Writer Ins Choi and actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee of Kim's Convenience talk turning an audience favourite on the theatre circuit into a TV show.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2016 18:00 UTC