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MA CHARACTERS KIM SANG-IL ("APPA") SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: PL SUN-HYUNG LEETHE KIM FAY PATRIARCH, A TRADNALIST BUT N SOMETIM BE PERSUAD TO BE OPEN-MD. HE IS CREDIBLY STUBBORN, UALLY ON ISSU RELATED TO JA. BEFORE IMMIGRATG TO CANADA HE WAS A TEACHER KOREA WH UMMA. ACROFATIC: EVEN AS AN OVERWEIGHT OLD MAN, HIS MARTIAL ART HAPKIDO SKILLS HAVE NOT WANED AT ALL, AS GERALD FDS OUT THE HARD WAY. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: UMMA LLS HIM "YEOBO", AN AFFECTNATE KOREAN TERM ED BY MARRIED UPL. ASIAN RUNS: HE DO MEAN WELL AND MAK AN EFFORT TO BE ACMODATG TO HIS CTOMERS, BUT HE'S STILL BOSSY, STUBBORN AND GMPY. THIS IS ENOUGH TO MAKE GERALD TERRIFIED OF HIM AT TIM, PECIALLY WHEN HE'S BEG TRAED AS THE STORE'S NEW PART-TIME WORKER AND N'T DO ANYTHG RIGHT WH MR. KIM AROUND (NTRAST TO WHEN MRS. KIM TRAS HIM AND HE DO A SPECTACULAR JOB). ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH: PRIMARILY SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH, WHICH IS UNRSTANDABLE SCE HE IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. THIS IS DONE A MORE REALISTIC MANNER THAN MOST EXAMPL (THE ACTOR BASED HIS WAY OF SPEAKG ON HIS OWN KOREAN IMMIGRANT FATHER). THERE ARE PLAYED FOR LGHS STANC OF HIM MISUNRSTANDG CERTA ENGLISH PHRAS (PECIALLY MORN TRENDY ON) BUT HE AND EVERYONE STILL UNRSTAND EACH OTHER FE. ASIAN STORE-OWNER: HE AND HIS WIFE ARE KOREAN IMMIGRANTS AND OWN THE SERI' TULAR NVENIENCE STORE. APPA TAK THE BS VERY SERLY AND IS OFTEN CRANKY, BUT HE DO HIS BT TO BE ACMODATG TO REGULARS AND THEY RETURN APPEAR TO LIKE THE STORE AND HIS FAY WELL ENOUGH. BERSERK BUTTON: ANYTHG JAPANE WILL VERY MUCH ANNOY APPA AND MAKE HIM GO ON RANTS ABOUT KOREA/JAPAN'S HISTORY. BTAL HONTY: STRAIGHT TO THE POT EVEN IF N BE A LTLE APPROPRIATE. ONE SUCH EXAMPLE IS WHEN HE'S TRYG TO FD A LAST-MUTE RD FOR A WOMAN TO GIVE TO HER SICK (EX) BT IEND WHOSE IMPORTANT TON SHE'S MISSED OUT ON — UNIMPRSED BY HER LACK OF EFFORT, HE CIS TO E A SYMPATHY RD AND WRE HIMSELF:"DEAR, SANDRA. "SORRY YOU HAVE A IEND LIKE HALIMAH. "SCERELY, MR. KIM." CATCHPHRASE: A FEW ECCENTRIC PHRAS HE OFTEN SAYS: "STOP!" "OK, SEE YOU!" "1910! JAPAN ATTACKED KOREA!" "WHAT YOU TALKG?" "AECHAMNOTE KOREAN: 아이, 참!", WHICH HE UALLY SAYS TO EXPRS TRATN. "SNEAK ATTACK" NOTE USED WHEN SOMEONE, OFTEN HIS WIFE, DO SOMETHG HE WASN'T EXPECTG. "NO, YOU _________!" HE THIS WHEN HE FEELS LIKE HE IS BEG ACCED OF SOMETHG, EVEN THOUGH MAY NOT ALWAYS MAKE SENSE. DEOSTG ICE QUEEN: IN REGARDS TO JUNG. THE TWO REFE TO SO MUCH AS TALK ABOUT EACH OTHER LET ALONE SEE EACH OTHER AFTER JUNG LEAV HOME; AFTER THEIR SMALL RNN AT THE HOSPAL NEAR THE END OF SEASON 1 (WHERE THE DGGED APPA DON'T REGISTER HE WAS ACTUALLY TALKG TO JUNG UNTIL AFTER HE LEAV) THEY SLOWLY BEG TO TALK TO EACH OTHER AGA WHENEVER THEY DO CROSS PATHS, AND APPA STARTS TO MISS JUNG. THE TWO HAVE A PROPER RENCILIATN TOWARDS THE END OF SEASON 2, ALTHOUGH 'S SHOWN THROUGHOUT THE SERI THAT THE TWO STILL HAVE SOME ROUGH PATCH AND N'T BE AROUND EACH OTHER THAT OFTEN. FX FLUENCY: INVERTED, PL SUN-HYUNG LEE IS FLUENT ENGLISH AS HE MOVED TO CANADA AT JT A FEW MONTHS OLD, BUT APPA SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH WH AN ACCENT SCE HE ONLY IMMIGRATED OM KOREA TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. HIS NAME REALLY IS "BARKEEP": MISUNRSTOOD BY MR. MEHTA, WHO DON'T REALIZE THAT YEOBO AND APPA ARE KOREAN TERMS FOR "AR/HONEY" AND "DAD" AND SO UP TO A CERTA POT GENUELY ASSUM THEY ARE MR. KIM'S FIRST NAM. HOT FOR PREACHER: MILD SE WHEN PASTOR NA FIRST BE A PART OF THE CHURCH THE KIMS GO TO. MR. KIM BE LOT MORE ENTHIASTIC AROUND THIS NEW ATTRACTIVE PASTOR THAN PASTOR CHOI (AND CHURCH GENERAL), AND GO AS FAR AS TO LET HER GET THGS OM HIS STORE FOR EE. THEY REMA AMIBLE AFTER HER BUT EPISO BUT THIS TROPE OTHERWISE WEARS OFF. LAST-NAME BASIS: ALMOST ALWAYS LLED MR. KIM BY PEOPLE OTHER THAN HIS FAY, AND HE RETURNS THE FAVOUR FOR MANY OF HIS NON-WHE IENDS AND CTOMERS. DISCSED AND PLAYED FOR LGHS WHEN HE AND MR. MEHTA REALIZE THEY LL EACH OTHER THIS WAY BEE THEY DON'T REMEMBER EACH OTHER'S FIRST NAM TO BEG WH. MANLY TEARS: IN SEASON 3'S "OPEN KIMUNITN", A F OF RAGE DURG GROUP UPL UNSELG, HE PROCLAIMS THAT 'S POTLS TO BRG UP THGS THAT HAPPENED LONG AGO ONE'S LIFE, BUT ABPTLY STOPS WHEN HE MENTNS "A PARENT WHO NOT EVEN..." WHEN UMMA REALIZ THAT HE'S HAVG TROUBLE PROCSG PENT-UP GRIEF ABOUT HIS UPBRGG, SHE WARMLY HUGS HIM AS HE SHEDS A SGLE TEAR. PAPA WOLF: IS PISSED WHEN HE FDS OUT THE MEHTAS' SON, WHOM JA'S BEEN ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH, HAS JT BEE ENGAGED TO ANOTHER GIRL AND HE SE HOW HEARTBROKEN HIS DGHTER IS BY THE NEWS (SPE HER CLAIMS WAS ONLY A SUAL THG). WHEN THE BOY ATTEMPTS TO NONT JA, MR. KIM N'T HELP BUT GIVE HIM A BIG TALK-DOWN. A MORE EDIC EXAMPLE WH JA OCCURS WHEN SHE AND GERALD MOVE TO THEIR NEW HOME TOGETHER, AND MR. KIM (WHO WAS IALLY AGAST JA LIVG ALONE WH ANOTHER BOY) GIFTS HIS DGHTER A PHOTO HER PARENTS... AND GIFTS GERALD WH A PHOTO OF JT HIMSELF GLARG AT THE MERA, CLEARLY SENDG A MSAGE. (SLIGHTLY) PLAYED FOR LGHS; HE'S SUPER PROTECTIVE OF JUNG... THE RDBOARD STANE (WHICH MRS. KIM BROUGHT HOME), AND ANGRILY CHAS AFTER TWO TEENAGE BOYS WHEN THEY WRECK AND ATTEMPT TO STEAL SAID JUNG STANE. IN "KNIFE STRIFE", WHEN HE THKS A MAN IS THREATENG HIMSELF, UMMA, AND JA WH A KNIFE, APPA'S IMMEDIATE REACTN IS TO STAND BETWEEN THEM AND THE MAN WH THE KNIFE. UNNAMED PARENT: HE IS ALWAYS LLED MR. KIM (BY NON-FAY) OR APPA (BY FAY). HIS GIVEN NAME IS ONLY BRIEFLY SAID/SHOWN A FEW EPISOS,. PLAYED FOR LGHS WHEN 'S REVEALED MR. MEHTA DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HIS NAME AND HAD ALWAYS ASSUMED YEOBO OR APPA WAS HIS NAME. THE UN-SE: ON EVERY OCSN HE ATTEMPTS TO SHOW GERALD SOME KDNS, UALLY FOR SOME ULTERR MOTIVE, MR. KIM ENDS UP PUTTG ON FORCED S THAT EAKS GERALD OUT. WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: MR. KIM IS ON THE RECEIVG END OF SEVERAL NONTATNS ABOUT HIS BAD CISN-MAKG THROUGHOUT THE SERI: FROM MRS. KIM AFTER HE IMPLI THAT JA HAD STOLEN MONEY OM THE TILL (AN ACTN FOR WHICH HE HAD PREVLY KICKED OUT OF THE HOE HIS OWN SON). THE BALANCE WAS OFF BEE HE HAD NOT ACUNTED FOR THE "GAY DISUNTS" HE HAD BEEN GIVG THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. FROM MRS. KIM WHEN SHE DISVERS THAT HE HAD SOLD OFF HER CEMETERY PLOT (BUT NOT HIS OWN ADJACENT ONE) TO PAY FOR A SLHIE MACHE AND NEVER BOUGHT BACK. KIM YUNG-MI ("UMMA") SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: JEAN YOONTHE KIM FAY MATRIARCH, LOVG BUT ALSO CLED TO MEDDLE HER CHILDREN'S LIV. WHEN NOT WORKG AT THE STORE SHE VOLUNTEERS AT THE CHURCH THE FAY ATTENDS. BEFORE IMMIGRATG TO CANADA SHE WAS A TEACHER KOREA WH APPA. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: APPA LLS HER "YEOBO", AN AFFECTNATE KOREAN TERM ED BY MARRIED UPL. ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH: PRIMARILY SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH, WHICH IS UNRSTANDABLE SCE SHE IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. THIS IS DONE A MORE REALISTIC MANNER THAN MOST EXAMPL, AND SHE AND EVERYONE STILL MUNITE WH EACH OTHER FE. IT'S ALSO SLIGHTLY DOWNPLAYED PARED TO APPA, SCE YOON SPEAKS SLIGHTLY MORE CLEARLY THAN HIM. ASIAN STORE-OWNER: A KOREAN IMMIGRANT AND -OWNER OF THE TULAR STORE ALONG WH HER HBAND. SHE'S NSIRABLY MORE IENDLY AND APPROACHABLE THAN HER HBAND BUT IS JT AS PROUD AND SER ABOUT THE BS AS HE IS. PEOPLE APPARENTLY LIKE HER MORE THAN HER HBAND, AS 'S HER WHO RECEIV THE MOSS PARK BS PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR THE NVENIENCE STORE STEAD OF MR. KIM HIMSELF. CATCHPHRASE: LIKE HER HBAND, SHE HAS A HAB OF SAYG, "WHAT YOU TALKG?" DU MAG: BRAGS ABOUT HAVG GUYS ALL OVER HER BACK KOREA WHEN SHE WAS A DANCER. FX FLUENCY: INVERTED, JEAN YOON IS FLUENT ENGLISH AS SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED NORTH AMERI, BUT UMMA SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH WH AN ACCENT SCE SHE ONLY IMMIGRATED OM KOREA TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. I WANT GRANDKIDS: PART OF HER IAL OBSSN WH SETTG JA UP WH "OL, CHRISTIAN, KOREAN BOYS" IS SO THAT SHE N GIVE BIRTH TO MANY KIDS. JA IS VERY MUCH AGAST THIS, AND SO IS MR. KIM (ONLY BEE WOULD GET THE WAY OF JA NNG THE STORE AFTER HE RETIR, WHICH JA IS ALSO AGAST). LAST-NAME BASIS: ALMOST ALWAYS LLED MRS. KIM BY PEOPLE OTHER THAN HER FAY, AND SHE RETURNS THE FAVOUR FOR MANY OF HER NON-WHE IENDS AND CTOMERS. MISTAKEN FOR SERVANT: WHILE MRS. KIM IS STANDG NEXT TO THE FGER FOOD TABLE AT A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBN FOR JA, AN ELRLY WOMAN MISTAK HER FOR ONE OF THE WAG STAFF; SHE KEEPS ASKG HER ABOUT THE FOOD AND EVEN GIV HER AN ED NAPK TO DISRD. TURNS OUT THE THE ACTUAL WAER FOR THE TABLE IS ALSO ASIAN. MRS. KIM FDS THIS ACTUALLY PRETTY FUNNY, BUT JA FURLY REPORTS THIS TO MS. MURRAY BEE SHE THKS 'S RACIST. THGS GET AWKWARD WHEN THE ELRLY WOMAN TURNS OUT TO BE THE MA JUDGE FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD JA'S AIMG FOR, AND THE WOMAN AND MS. MURRAY ASSUME THEY'RE BEG BLACKMAILED TO GIVG JA THE AWARD EXCHANGE FOR SILENCE. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: OBSS OVER JA AND JUNG'S LIV MUCH MORE THAN THEY WOULD LIKE HER TO. THIS CLUS PANICKG OVER JA MOVG AWAY, TRYG TO PAIR HER UP WH OL CHRISTIAN KOREAN BOYS, AND SETTG JUNG UP WH AN EX-GIRLIEND (AS A JOT EFFORT WH HER MOTHER). THIS TRA IS LS PROMENT THE ORIGAL PLAY. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: KIMCHEE SE HER AS THE CLOST FAY HE'S GOT TOWN (HIS MOTHER IS CALGARY AND HE'S DISNNECTED OM HIS DAD'S SI), AND HE ALSO TENDS TO GET PAMPERED BY HER WHENEVER SHE VISS JUNG AT THEIR HOME. HE EVEN MAK HER HIS EMERGENCY NTACT, LEADG TO A PARAMEDIC TO MISTAKE MRS. KIM FOR HIS OWN MOTHER. UNNAMED PARENT: SHE IS ALWAYS LLED MRS. KIM (BY NON-FAY) OR UMMA (BY FAY). HER GIVEN NAME IS ONLY SAID/SHOWN A FEW TIM. WOMEN ARE WISER: SHE'S MUCH MORE GROUND THAN APPA IS, SPE HELIPTERG OVER JA. JUNG KIM SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: SIMU LIUTHE KIM FAY'S TRANGED SON. HE WAS A PETTY CRIMAL AS A TEENAGER, AND WAS KICKED OUT OF THE FAY'S HOME BY MR. KIM AFTER HE WAS UGHT STEALG MONEY OM THE STORE SAFE, BUT NOW IS GOG STRAIGHT. JUNG WORKS AT HANDY CAR RENTAL WH HIS IEND AND ROOMMATE KIMCHEE. 10-MUTE RETIREMENT: AT THE END OF SEASON 2 HE VOLUNTARILY LEAV HIS JOB AT HANDY CAR RENTAL BEE HE ASSUM HE'S GUARANTEED A NEW JOB AT THEIR RIVAL PANY. UNFORTUNATELY SAID PANY REJECTS HIM THE END DUE TO HIS LQUENT PAST. TOO STUBBORN TO GO BACK, HE TRI TO FD OTHER WORK AT THE BEGNG OF SEASON 3 (WHILE PRETENDG TO BE WORKG AT HIS NEW JOB BEE HE'S TOO ASHAMED TO TELL THE TTH); AFTER NO SUCCS, HE EVENTUALLY ASKS SHANNON TO LET HIM E BACK, WHICH SHE RELUCTANTLY AGRE TO (ON THE NDN THAT THEY FET ABOUT THE KISS THEY SHARED). AGE LIFT: 32 YEARS OLD THE PLAY, BUT 24 AT THE START OF THE TV SHOW. ALHOL-INDUCED IDCY: MAKG A MS OF HIMSELF DUE TO TOO MUCH ALHOL SEEMED TO BE SOMETHG JUNG DID WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER. THE REASON HIS EX-GIRLIEND GRACE BROKE UP WH HIM AS TEENS WAS BEE HE TURNED UP TO HER FAY DNER DNK AND THREW UP ON WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS A TREE ( WAS HER UNCLE) AND PUNCHED WHAT HE ALSO THOUGHT WAS A TREE (ALSO HER UNCLE). ASCEND EXTRA: MOR EXAMPLE. ALTHOUGH HARDLY UNIMPORTANT THE ORIGAL PLAY, JUNG ACTUALLY ONLY APPEARS TWO SCEN. IN THE TV ADAPTATN (WHICH EXPANDS ON MANY TAILS), HE APPEARS AS EQUENTLY AS THE RT OF HIS FAY. BAD "BAD ACTG": OVERACTS WHENEVER HE ATTEMPTS TO LIE, SUCH AS GETTG OUT OF A LUNCH DATE WH A FEMALE WORKER TO GO EAT WH SHANNON AND PRETENDG TO BE VISG KIMCHEE'S APARTMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME (BEE KIMCHEE'S MOTHER ISN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW HE LIV THERE). BOOK DUMB: LAMPSHAD BY KIMCHEE WHEN JUNG'S LACK OF TELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS MA PAFULLY OBV AFTER FLOPPG TRIVIA NIGHT WH JA'S GROUP; WHEN ASKED BY JUNG IF HE THKS HE'S DUMB, KIMCHEE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO CLARIFY THAT HE ISN'T DUMB DUMB AND IS STREET-SMART, "GIRL-SMART, "EAT-SMART" — JT NOT BOOK-SMART. JTIFIED AS HE DIDN'T END UP FISHG HIGH SCHOOL BACK HIS TEENS — HE CIS TO FIX THIS AND GETS HIS GED AT THE END OF SEASON 2. EVEN SPE THE IAL LACKG TN, JUNG IS STILL A PABLE ASSISTANT MANAGER AT WORK AND GOOD AT HANDLG PEOPLE. CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: BEEN GOOD IENDS WH KIMCHEE SCE CHILDHOOD, AND THE TWO ARE STILL BT IENDS THAT LIVE AND WORK TOGETHER. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: DPE HIS IENDLY AND FAIRLY UPBEAT MEANOUR, JUNG HAD TO GO THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME DURG HIS YOUTH WHICH HAS AFFECTED WHAT HE'S BEE TODAY. HE WAS KICKED OUT OF (OR RAN AWAY OM) HIS HOE AT 16 FOR STEALG MONEY OM THE FAY BS, WHICH LED TO HIM NOT FISHG HIGH SCHOOL AND SPENDG TIME JUVENILE TENTN. HE STILL HAS A POOR RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER BEE OF THIS, SO MUCH SO THAT THEY AVOID SPEAKG TO EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH HE'S CLEAN NOW, HIS MOTHER STILL FEELS EMBARRASSED WHEN BRGG UP HIS LQUENT PAST. EMBARRASSG NICKNAME: ACRDG TO HIS DAD, JUNG GOT TEASED WH MANY EMBARRASSG VARIATNS OF HIS NAME AS A KID SUCH AS DUMB DUMB JUNG, PG PONG JUNG AND DONKEY KONG JUNG. THIS IS WHY MR. AND MRS. KIM GAVE JA AN ENGLISH "SAFE" NAME. FORMER TEEN REBEL: JUNG WAS A LQUENT HIS YOUTH, BUT HAS GONE STRAIGHT NOW. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HAS A CLOSE IENDSHIP WH KIMCHEE WHO IS ALSO BOTH A WORK LLEAGUE AND HIS ROOMMATE. DPE THEIR ROMANC WH GIRLS, THEY RARELY APPEAR WHOUT EACH OTHER. MEANGFUL NAME: JUNG (정) REFERS TO A TYPE OF LOVE AND ATTACHMENT (NOT NECSARILY ROMANTIC) BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, A LOVE SO STRONG WHSTANDS EVEN HATE AND TIME. THIS IS APPLIBLE TO JUNG'S RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER; H THE ROCKS AFTER HE LEFT HOME, BUT THE SERI SHOWS THAT SPE THEIR DIFFERENC THEY STILL LOVE AND RE FOR ONE ANOTHER. MR. FANSERVICE: HIS TONED BODY IS GREATLY APPRECIATED BY OTHER GIRLS (TO THE POT OF HAVG HIS OWN "FANCLUB" WHENEVER HE PLAYS BASKETBALL OUTSI), PECIALLY WHEN HE'S SHIRTLS. MY SISTER IS OFF-LIMS: BE A MOR FOC WHEN ALEX STARTS DATG JA ONE EPISO. JUNG GENUELY WANTS TO SUPPORT HIS IEND AND SISTER BUT FEELS ICKED OUT BY THEIR PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTN AND EVENTUALLY SPEAKS UP ABOUT HIS DISFORT. OBLIV TO LOVE: FOR MUCH OF SEASON 1 HE IS OBLIV TO SHANNON'S OBV CSH ON HIM. PERSON AS VERB: KIMCHEE DO NOT ENJOY GETTG "JUNGED" IE. HAVG GIRLS TERTED HIMSELF ABANDON HIM ONCE THEY MEET JUNG WHO IS NVENTNALLY MORE ATTRACTIVE -SERI. REFORMED, BUT REJECTED: DPE MAKG AN EFFORT TO LEAD A MUCH BETTER LIFE THAN WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGE LQUENT, HIS FATHER STILL REF TO TALK TO HIM FOR MUCH OF SEASON 1. HOWEVER, UMMA AND JA STILL KEEP TOUCH WH HIM SECRET (ALTHOUGH UMMA SOMETIM OBSS OVER HOW OTHER PEOPLE THK OF HIM). JUNG'S EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS DO NOT GO UNAFFECTED BY HIS PAST. IN THE SEASON 2 FALE, THE RIVAL R RENTAL THAT ACCEPTED HIM AS AN APPLINT TURNS HIM DOWN AFTER HIS JUVENILE LQUENCY UP THE BACKGROUND CHECK. SHIRTLS SCENE: WILL REMOVE HIS SHIRT AT THE SLIGHTT PROVOTN.KIMCHEE: (REFERRG TO THE WORK STANE OF JUNG) I LL HIM THE PERFECT JUNG. JA: BEE HE DON'T TALK OR TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT? "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: HIS FATHER'S REJECTN OF HIM HAS OBVLY HURT HIM THE MOST AND IS THE REASON HE AVOIDS HIM. ADDNALLY, HE'S UPSET THAT HIS MOTHER STILL OBSS OVER HIS PAST AND WHAT OTHER PEOPLE AT CHURCH THK OF HIM, AND MAK A POT THAT HE DON'T RE WHAT THEY THK BUT R ABOUT WHAT SHE THKS OF HIM. JA KIM SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: ANDREA BANGTHE YOUNGER CHILD THE FAY, JA OFTEN BUTTS HEADS WH HER FATHER OVER HIS TRADNALISM. SHE ATTENDS ART SCHOOL AT OCAD UNIVERSY TO STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY. ACCINTAL MISNAMG: JA HERSELF MISPRONOUNC AND MISSPELLS HER BRIEF STAGE NAME EUI KYUNG SCE SHE'S NOT ED TO NOR HAS VERY GOOD KOREAN PRONUNCIATN. SHE KEEPS SAYG THE I PART AS "OI" STEAD OF "UI" SPE HER FATHER RRECTG HER MULTIPLE TIM, AND SHE RRECTLY SPELLS TWO DIFFERENT WAYS ON THE BS RDS AND HER POSTER (WHICH IS WRTEN AS EIU KYUNG) DURG HER STUNT EXHIBN. THIS ENDS UP NFG THE OTHER PEOPLE AT THE EXHIBN (NONE OF THEM KOREAN), AND THEY MAKE WORSE BY BATG HOW 'S PRONOUNCED. A-CUP ANGST: IMPLIED BY ONE OF THE LETTERS SHE WROTE TO NAYOUNG WHEN THEY WERE KIDS, WH A YOUNG JA SOUNDG UNHAPPY WH HER LACK OF BOOB GROWTH DURG HER PUBERTY.NAYOUNG: (READG) "I THK MAYBE MY BOOB IS GETTG SMALLER." AERH AND BOB: THE ONLY MEMBER OF HER FAY TO HAVE AN ENGLISH FIRST NAME STEAD OF KOREAN (ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY HER PARENTS HAD EACH WANTED TO GIVE HER A KOREAN NAME BUT ULDN'T AGREE ON WHICH ONE). HER FATHER JTIFI BY SAYG HE WANTED TO GIVE HER A SAFE ENGLISH NAME TO AVOID HER GETTG BULLIED LIKE JUNG. ANNOYED BY HOW MON OF A NAME JA KIM IS THE PHOTOGRAPHY BS, SHE BRIEFLY ATTEMPTS TO GIVE HERSELF A PROFSNAL KOREAN NAME EUI KYUNG. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: AFFECTNATELY LLED EONNI (A TERM FOR ONE'S OLR SISTER OR OLR SISTER FIGURE) BY HER NAYOUNG. SHE GETS SICK OF BEG LLED THIS DURG NAYOUNG'S FIRST VIS, FDG CHILDISH, BUT IS FE WH AGA AFTER THE TWO S MAKE UP. AGE LIFT: A 30 YEAR OLD LLEGE GRADUATE AND PROFSNAL PHOTOGRAPHER THE PLAY, BUT A 20-YEAR-OLD PHOTOGRAPHY STUNT THE TV SHOW. ASIAN AND NERDY: PLAYED WH. JA'S ON A SCHOLARSHIP AND GENERALLY PLAC FIRST/VERY HIGH CLASS, A STARK NTRAST TO HER BOOK DUMB BROTHER WHO ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE GOT THE LOOKS WHILE SHE GOT THE BRAS. HOWEVER, SHE STUDI PHOTOGRAPHY AT AN ART SCHOOL STEAD OF THE TYPILLY MORE NERDY AREAS ASIANS ARE STEREOTYPED WH LIKE STEM OR BS. ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH: SHE VOK THIS TROPE WHEN SHE PRETENDS TO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH WELL AFTER A SECURY GUARD TCH HER TRYG TO SNEAK TO A FILM FTIVAL. THIS UNFORTUNATELY HNTS HER WHEN THE SECURY GUARD NS TO HER AT THE STORE A FEW TIM, AND DURG THE SEND TIME JUNG AND KIMCHEE ALSO HAVE TO FAKE ACCENTED TERRIBLE ENGLISH TO PROTECT JA'S SECRET. MRS. KIM IS UNIMPRSED BY HER DGHTER AND ANGRILY ASKS HER, "YOU PRETEND TO TALK LIKE ME TO GET A EE MOVIE TICKET?" BTAL HONTY: WILL SAY WHAT'S ON HER MD EVEN IF N BE HURTFUL. THIS CLUS HER HAVG ENOUGH OF NAYOUNG'S OVERLY SWEET BEHAVUR AND WHEN SHE AND GERALD IALLY STGGLE TO PUT UP WH EACH OTHER'S BAD HABS AT THEIR NEW VOKED CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: BEEN WELL-ACQUATED WH HER BROTHER'S IEND KIMCHEE SCE CHILDHOOD, AND THEY ENJOY EACH OTHER'S PANY WHEN THEY GO OUT FOR DNER WHILE JUNG GO ON A DATE. OLD LETTERS SHE WROTE TO NAYOUNG REVEAL SHE ED TO HAVE A CSH ON HIM AS A KID. COMPRSED VICE: A SEASON 4 EPISO HAS CHARACTERS CRICISG JA FOR BEG TOO UNEMOTNAL AND DISTANT, LIKE A ROBOT. THIS NTRADICTS WH HER UAL BEHAVUR WHERE SHE IS AS EXPRSIVE AS EVERYONE ELSE AND IS ACTUALLY PRONE TO EAKG OUT. DADDY'S GIRL: AN EMOTNAL NVERSATN WH MR. KIM SEASON 4 IMPLI THAT SHE LOV HER FATHER THE MOST OUT OF EVERYONE HER FAY, WH THE SENTIMENT BEG RECIPROTED. DEAD GUY JUNR: WHEN FEELG DOWN ABOUT HER BORG HER NAME APPARENTLY IS, JA IS RMED BY HER MOTHER OF S SIGNIFINCE — SHE SHAR THE SAME NAME AS THE CEASED ELRLY WOMAN THAT HELPED THE NEWLY-ARRIVED MRS. KIM WH HER ENGLISH AND LOOKED AFTER JUNG (AND BROUGHT THEM BANANA BREAD). GRATUO FOREIGN LANGUAGE: DPE BEG OF KOREAN HERAGE, JA DO NOT APPEAR TO BE AT ALL FLUENT THE LANGUAGE. SHE KNOWS ENOUGH KOREAN TO MUNITE TO HER MOTHER (ALBE BADLY) WHEN SHE DON'T WANT MR MEHTA TO KNOW WHAT SHE'S SAYG, BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR HER TO TALK TO A KOREAN WAER (TO PROVE SHE'S JT AS KOREAN AS HER NAYOUNG) WHOUT BUTCHERG THE PRONUNCIATN VERY BADLY. AFTER STUDYG THE LANGUAGE AND PREPARG FOR HIS TRIP TO KOREA, EVEN GERALD SPEAKS AND UNRSTANDS MORE THAN HER. HAT BEG TOUCHED: DOWNPLAYED, SHE'S HAPPY DATG JUNG'S IEND ALEX BUT HER IENDS OBSERVE THE TWO AND POT OUT THAT JA DON'T REALLY EMBRACE ALEX'S PHYSIL TIMACY. WHEN SHE ATTEMPTS TO ACT MORE LIKE SICKENGLY SWEETHEARTS WH HIM, 'S OBV SHE DON'T LIKE ALL THAT MUCH. LIKE PARENT, LIKE CHILD: DPE THE TWO BUTTG HEADS, JA SHAR MANY TRAS WH HER FATHER SUCH AS HIS BTAL HONTY (WHICH HE ONCE LAMPSHAS). NO SOCIAL SKILLS: DOWNPLAYED, AS SHE SOCIALIS WH HER IENDS AND FAY FE BUT IS VERY AWKWARD AT EXPRSG HERSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE. HER IAL EFFORTS TO MAKE SMALL TALK WH DREE ARE PAFUL, SHE FDS DIFFICULT TO NONT PEOPLE AND HAS A TERRIBLE SE OF DIGGG YOURSELF DEEPER. THIS TRA IS LS PRENT THE PLAY, WHICH HER TERACTN WH NON-FAY IS MORE LIMED. ONE-STEVE LIM: HOW HANDY THIS TROPE WOULD BE IS DISCSED WHEN HER PROFSOR TRI TO FD HER PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSE AND FAILS BEE THERE'S JT THAT MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS LLED JA KIM. JA ATTEMPTS TO "REBRAND" HERSELF AS EUI KYUNG TO STAND OUT, BUT THE OTHERS (NON-KOREAN) STEAD JT STUMBLE OVER HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME. OOH, ME ACCENT'S SLIPPG: DURG HER ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH VER SHE SLIPS TO HER FLUENT NON-ACCENTED ENGLISH A FEW TIM WHICH NF THE SECURY GUARD, BUT HER VER ISN'T BLOWN UNTIL RIGHT AT THE END WHEN SHE FEELS GUILTY AND NFS. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: CLOSE IENDS WH GERALD WHOM SHE OTHERWISE SHOWS NO ROMANTIC TERT WHATSOEVER. THE TWO EQUENTLY HANG OUT TOGETHER AND STILL BUY A PLACE TOGETHER EVEN AFTER THEIR THIRD IEND BAILS OUT. THE SEASON 4 FALE SUGGTS THEIR IENDSHIP ISN'T PLETELY EE OF UNROLVED SEXUAL TENSN, LEADG THEM TO KISS, BUT SHE'S UNWILLG TO FOLLOW UP ON (PECIALLY WH RAJ BACK THE PICTURE) AND BIDS FAREWELL TO GERALD AS IENDS. PREC CSH: OLD CHILDHOOD/TEENAGE LETTERS OM JA THAT NAYOUNG KEPT REVEAL THAT JA ED TO HAVE CSH ON ALL OF HER OLR BROTHER JUNG'S IENDS, CLUDG KIMCHEE. JA IS EMBARRASSED ABOUT THE LAST ONE AND GO OUT OF HER WAY TO AVOID REVEALG THIS TO JUNG AND KIMCHEE UNTIL NAYOUNG SPILLS. STAGE NAM: BRIEFLY ATTEMPTED WHEN JA REALIZ ALL THE OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS NAMED JA KIM DROWN HER OUT THE GOOGLE RULTS. SHE CIS TO LL HERSELF EUI KYUNG (NOTE THAT SHE DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN A KOREAN NAME BY HER PARENTS). THE UNFAVORE: JA FEELS UNSUPPORTED BY HER PARENTS, EVEN AFTER JUNG WAS KICKED OUT OF THE HOE. THIS BE A PLOT POT AT THE END OF SEASON 2 WHEN SHE GETS TRATED BY THEM CELEBRATG JUNG'S GED STEAD OF HER GRADUATN AND TRI TO ACT OUT BY RIDG AROUND HER MOTORCYCLE. THIS TROPE DON'T APPLY AT LEAST TO HER WH HER FATHER, WHO HTS THAT HE LOV HER THE MOST THE FAY. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: JA'S THEN-BOYIEND RAJ GETS ENGAGED TO ANOTHER GIRL WHOUT TELLG HER FIRST, WHICH BREAKS HER HEART SCE SHE WAS TAKG THEIR RELATNSHIP MORE SERLY THAN SHE CLAIMED. LATER RAJ SHOWS TERT HER AGA AND NFS TO HER THAT THE ENGAGEMENT WAS A MISTAKE, BUT JA ISN'T TOTALLY NVCED AND IS VISIBLY IRRATED BY HIM. THGS GET PLITED WHEN HE DO END UP BREAKG THE ENGAGEMENT OFF AND BE CLEAR JA STILL HAS FEELGS FOR HIM, SPE GETTG A NEW BOYIEND HERSELF. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: APPRECIAT THE RARE PRAISE OM HER PARENTS, PECIALLY OM HER DAD. SHE'S EVEN HAPPY WH TAKG A PHOTO OF APPA TO GO UP ON THE "DON'T-TOUCH WALL" AND HAVG GERALD TAKE THE CRED SCE APPA WOULDN'T HAD APPRECIATED THE PHOTO OTHERWISE. KIMCHEE HAN SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: ANDREW PHUNGJUNG'S CHILDHOOD BT IEND, ROOMMATE, AND WORKER AT HANDY CAR RENTAL. BERSERK BUTTON: VERY PROTECTIVE OF HIS SPECIAL SNEAKERS LLECTN WHICH HE REF TO WEAR SO THEY STAY GOOD NDN. JUNG ACCINTALLY GETTG BURRO JUICE ON THEM WHEN MSG AROUND WH HIS EMPTY BURRO PAPER WRAP MAK KIMCHEE SUPER PISSED AND HOSTILE ENOUGH THAT JUNG GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO BUY NEW ON TO MAKE UP TO HIM.KIMCHEE: CAREFUL. HE'LL STROY EVERYTHG YOU LOVE. [LATER ON, OVER THE LOUDSPEAKER AT WORK] EVERYTHG YOU LOVE. BIG FUN: ON THE LARGER SI AND IS VERY PLAYFUL AND IENDLY. DISAPPEARED DAD: KIMCHEE'S DAD ABANDONED HIS FAY AT SOME POT HIS CHILDHOOD. KIMCHEE'S ONLY MEMORY OF HIM IS THE TWO OF THEM EATG KIMCHI TOGETHER AND THE NAME KIMCHEE SELF (WHICH HIS DAD ME UP WH), WHICH IS WHY HE'S VERY PROTECTIVE OF HIS IN-SERI NICKNAME. IN THE SERI FALE HE GO GENE HUNTG FOR HIS FATHER. IT TURNS OUT THE GUY HE TRACKED DOWN WAS A DIFFERENT GUY WH THE SAME NAME. CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: BEEN IENDS WH JUNG AND JA SCE CHILDHOOD. HE'S STILL JUNG'S BT IEND THE PRENT AND IS ON GOOD TERMS WH JA. DO NOT CALL ME "PL": IT'S IMPLIED HE HAS SOME DISDA FOR HIS REAL NAME WHEN SHANNON IS ANGRY AT KIMCHEE AND REFERS TO HIM AS ARNOLD WHILE AT THE OFFICE, TO WHICH KIMCHEE REPLI, "STOOPG TO MY LEGAL NAME. COLD." HIS PREFERRED NICKNAME IS ALWAYS ED, EVEN WHEN SIGNG HIS WORKERS' PAYCHECKS, SCE 'S HIS ONLY MEMORY LEFT OF HIS FATHER WHO ABANDONED HIM. FX FLUENCY: MILD AS ANDREW PHUNG'S EFFORTS HIS KOREAN ARE ADMIRABLE, BUT THE FEW TIM WE HEAR KIMCHEE SPEAK KOREAN EVINTLY DO NOT SOUND AS FLUENT AS THE KOREAN SPOKEN BY HIS ACTUAL KOREAN -STARS. FORMER TEEN REBEL: LIKE JUNG, KIMCHEE WAS A LQUENT HIS YOUTH BEFORE MATURG AS AN ADULT (BUT HE STILL HAS A REBELL SI). HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HAS A CLOSE IENDSHIP WH JUNG WHO IS ALSO BOTH A WORK LLEAGUE AND HIS ROOMMATE. DPE THEIR ROMANC WH GIRLS, THEY RARELY APPEAR WHOUT EACH OTHER. HIDN DEPTHS: HE APPARENTLY ENJOYS WATCHG DOCUMENTARI, SOMETHG JUNG HAS NO TERT . HE EVEN BE VISIBLY CHOKED UP WHEN RELATG THE PLOT OF A MOVIE HE SAW ABOUT STREET TS. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: MILD AS HE ISN'T QUE A JERK (EXCEPT TO TERRENCE) AND IS STEAD JT SOMETIM NSIRATE OR PUTS HIMSELF FIRST STEAD OF DOG THE RIGHT THG. NEVERTHELS, HE'S EASY TO GET ALONG WH, POLE TO ELRS, AND IS ALSO THE ONE WHO TOOK JUNG AND GOT HIM WORK WHEN HE WAS KICKED OUT OF HOME AND STGGLG ON HIS OWN. KARMA HOUDI: PRR TO THE START OF THE SERI HE GOT AWAY WH SHOPLIFTG SMARTPHON, WHILE JUNG WAS NOT AS LUCKY. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: HE AND EVERYONE HIS NICKNAME KIMCHEE, TO THE POT THAT HIS NAME SIGN HIS OFFICE EVEN SAYS "KIMCHEE HAN". HIS WORKERS ARE NFED WHEN THEY FD OUT 'S NOT HIS ACTUAL NAME. HE SISTS ON G THE NICKNAME RATHER THAN HIS REAL NAME, ARNOLD BEE 'S ONE OF THE FEW MEMORI OF HIS FATHER. O.O.C. IS SER BS: JUNG IS SPIC WHEN KIMCHEE MAK AN EFFORT TO CLEAN UP THEIR PLACE AND BUY A LOT OF THGS SPE UALLY BEG A B SLOPPY. HE EVENTUALLY FDS OUT THAT THIS IS DUE TO KIMCHEE MAKG CENT MONEY OFF OF AN UBER-EQUIVALENT BS. RANK UP: BE THE NEW ASSISTANT MANAGER AT HANDY CAR RENTAL AT THE END OF SEASON 2 AFTER JUNG LEAV THE PLACE FOR ANOTHER JOB (WHICH, UNBEKNOWNST TO KIMCHEE, HE DON'T GET THE END). KIMCHEE ENJOYS FLNTG HIS NEW STAT SEASON 3 BUT OTHERWISE DO A SUFFICIENT JOB, AND JUNG REF TO TELL HIM HE WAS REJECTED BY THE OTHER R RENTAL BEE HE DON'T WANT HIM TO FEEL BAD FOR TAKG HIS OLD POSN. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO PLEASE HIS MOTHER WHEN SHE VISS HIM SEASON 3. HE EVEN PRETENDS TO HAVE CUT TI WH JUNG SCE SHE DON'T LIKE HIM AND NSIRS HIM A BAD FLUENCE—TURNS OUT WHENEVER HIS MUM UGHT HIM WH BAD STUFF HIS YOUTH, HE LIED AND BLAMED ON JUNG. SHANNON ROSS SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: NILE POWERJUNG AND KIMCHEE'S MANAGER AT HANDY CAR RENTAL, ORIGALLY OM NOVA STIA. SHE MEANS WELL BUT HER ATTEMPTS TO APPEAR OL OFTEN E OFF AWKWARD. ANIMAL LOVER: SHE DOT ON HER TS, GETS QUICKLY ATTACHED TO A LOST DOG, AND IS EAGER TO HELP AN JURED PIGEON REVER RATHER THAN GIVG A MERCY KILL (LIKE JUNG WAS ABOUT TO DO). BENEVOLENT BOSS: SHANNON TREATS HER EMPLOYE RATHER WELL AND IS VERY PLEASANT TO WORK WH. CANNOT KEEP A SECRET: WHEN NONTG JUNG ABOUT THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PLAT MA AGAST HIM, SHE IALLY ATTEMPTS TO HI THE PLAER'S INTY BUT DON'T DO A GREAT JOB AT HIDG THEIR GENR ("HE'S REQUTED THAT HIS NAME, OR SHE, HER NAME, OR HIS, REMA ANONYMO") AND EVENTUALLY DON'T EVEN BOTHER AVOIDG THEIR NAME ALTOGETHER ("BUT IF KIMCHEE, OR HER, CIS TO FILE A FORMAL PLAT I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SEND THIS ON UP"). COUNTRY MOE: SHE'S OM RAL NOVA STIA, AND HAS TROUBLE FTG WH JUNG AND KIMCHEE. COVERT PERVERT: JUNG'S EXPLAG DDONGJEEM AS THE CULTURAL EQUIVALENT OF A WEDGIE LEAV HER NFED BUT ALSO VERY CUR. ENARGLY DORKY: AWKWARD BUT ENARG HER ATTEMPTS TO BE OL AND RELATABLE TO PEOPLE AT WORK, AS WELL AS WHEN SHE LETS LOOSE. JUNG HAS MIXED FEELGS ABOUT HER AT FIRST BUT HER DORKY PERSONALY GROWS ON HIM, AND HIM TCHG HER SGG OVER THE SPEAKERS WHEN CLOSG UP THE WORKPLACE IS THE FIRST CLEAR SIGN THAT HE'S BEGUN RECIPROTG HER FEELGS. EXTREME DOORMAT: HER EFFORTS BEG THE NICE "OL" BOSS N MAKE EASY TO FOOL HER OR E HER. JUNG IS WARY OF THIS WHEN HE THKS JA IS TAKG ADVANTAGE OF HER KDNS ORR TO GO TO A NCERT HER VERY FIRST WEEKEND SHIFT AT THEIR WORKPLACE. INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: SHE HAS PREJUDIC TOWARD PEOPLE RAISED THE CY AS BEG MORE AGGRSIVE, BUT THIS IS BASED ON BEG OM CAPE BRETON THAN ANY ACTUAL MALICE. SHE'S ALSO OCSNALLY CULTURALLY-SENSIVE WHOUT MEANG TO. MAYDECEMBER ROMANCE: SHE'S OLR THAN JUNG. STEPFORD SER: SHANNON IS A CHEERFUL PERSON, BUT A SMALL BREAKDOWN SEASON 4 REVEALS SHE'S UNHAPPY ABOUT THE WAY HER LIFE TURNED OUT, WHICH IS WHY SHE'S TERMED TO GIVE STACIE A MEMORABLE 30TH BIRTHDAY WORK PARTY. TOKEN WHE: THE ONLY WHE MEMBER OF THE MA ST. SHE IS AMIBLE AND RPECTFUL OF CULTUR OTHER THAN HER OWN, BUT OCSNALLY CROSS TO INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE TERRORY. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: HARBOURS A BIG CSH ON JUNG SEASON 1 AND MAK SOME ATTEMPTS TO WOO HIM, SOMETHG THAT HE EHER DON'T NOTICE OR CHOOS TO IGNORE. WHEN HE FALLY STARTS TO REALIZE HIS FEELGS FOR HER, SHE'S ALREADY MOVED ON AND STARTED DATG ALEJANDRO. THE FALE OF SEASON 2 REVEALS SHE STILL HAS FEELGS FOR JUNG BUT SHE REF TO ACT ON THEM BEE OF HER RELATNSHIP WH ALEJANDRO.RECURRG CHARACTERS

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MA CHARACTERS KIM SANG-IL ("APPA") SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: PL SUN-HYUNG LEETHE KIM FAY PATRIARCH, A TRADNALIST BUT N SOMETIM BE PERSUAD TO BE OPEN-MD. HE IS CREDIBLY STUBBORN, UALLY ON ISSU RELATED TO JA. BEFORE IMMIGRATG TO CANADA HE WAS A TEACHER KOREA WH UMMA. ACROFATIC: EVEN AS AN OVERWEIGHT OLD MAN, HIS MARTIAL ART HAPKIDO SKILLS HAVE NOT WANED AT ALL, AS GERALD FDS OUT THE HARD WAY. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: UMMA LLS HIM "YEOBO", AN AFFECTNATE KOREAN TERM ED BY MARRIED UPL. ASIAN RUNS: HE DO MEAN WELL AND MAK AN EFFORT TO BE ACMODATG TO HIS CTOMERS, BUT HE'S STILL BOSSY, STUBBORN AND GMPY. THIS IS ENOUGH TO MAKE GERALD TERRIFIED OF HIM AT TIM, PECIALLY WHEN HE'S BEG TRAED AS THE STORE'S NEW PART-TIME WORKER AND N'T DO ANYTHG RIGHT WH MR. KIM AROUND (NTRAST TO WHEN MRS. KIM TRAS HIM AND HE DO A SPECTACULAR JOB). ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH: PRIMARILY SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH, WHICH IS UNRSTANDABLE SCE HE IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. THIS IS DONE A MORE REALISTIC MANNER THAN MOST EXAMPL (THE ACTOR BASED HIS WAY OF SPEAKG ON HIS OWN KOREAN IMMIGRANT FATHER). THERE ARE PLAYED FOR LGHS STANC OF HIM MISUNRSTANDG CERTA ENGLISH PHRAS (PECIALLY MORN TRENDY ON) BUT HE AND EVERYONE STILL UNRSTAND EACH OTHER FE. ASIAN STORE-OWNER: HE AND HIS WIFE ARE KOREAN IMMIGRANTS AND OWN THE SERI' TULAR NVENIENCE STORE. APPA TAK THE BS VERY SERLY AND IS OFTEN CRANKY, BUT HE DO HIS BT TO BE ACMODATG TO REGULARS AND THEY RETURN APPEAR TO LIKE THE STORE AND HIS FAY WELL ENOUGH. BERSERK BUTTON: ANYTHG JAPANE WILL VERY MUCH ANNOY APPA AND MAKE HIM GO ON RANTS ABOUT KOREA/JAPAN'S HISTORY. BTAL HONTY: STRAIGHT TO THE POT EVEN IF N BE A LTLE APPROPRIATE. ONE SUCH EXAMPLE IS WHEN HE'S TRYG TO FD A LAST-MUTE RD FOR A WOMAN TO GIVE TO HER SICK (EX) BT IEND WHOSE IMPORTANT TON SHE'S MISSED OUT ON — UNIMPRSED BY HER LACK OF EFFORT, HE CIS TO E A SYMPATHY RD AND WRE HIMSELF:"DEAR, SANDRA. "SORRY YOU HAVE A IEND LIKE HALIMAH. "SCERELY, MR. KIM." CATCHPHRASE: A FEW ECCENTRIC PHRAS HE OFTEN SAYS: "STOP!" "OK, SEE YOU!" "1910! JAPAN ATTACKED KOREA!" "WHAT YOU TALKG?" "AECHAMNOTE KOREAN: 아이, 참!", WHICH HE UALLY SAYS TO EXPRS TRATN. "SNEAK ATTACK" NOTE USED WHEN SOMEONE, OFTEN HIS WIFE, DO SOMETHG HE WASN'T EXPECTG. "NO, YOU _________!" HE THIS WHEN HE FEELS LIKE HE IS BEG ACCED OF SOMETHG, EVEN THOUGH MAY NOT ALWAYS MAKE SENSE. DEOSTG ICE QUEEN: IN REGARDS TO JUNG. THE TWO REFE TO SO MUCH AS TALK ABOUT EACH OTHER LET ALONE SEE EACH OTHER AFTER JUNG LEAV HOME; AFTER THEIR SMALL RNN AT THE HOSPAL NEAR THE END OF SEASON 1 (WHERE THE DGGED APPA DON'T REGISTER HE WAS ACTUALLY TALKG TO JUNG UNTIL AFTER HE LEAV) THEY SLOWLY BEG TO TALK TO EACH OTHER AGA WHENEVER THEY DO CROSS PATHS, AND APPA STARTS TO MISS JUNG. THE TWO HAVE A PROPER RENCILIATN TOWARDS THE END OF SEASON 2, ALTHOUGH 'S SHOWN THROUGHOUT THE SERI THAT THE TWO STILL HAVE SOME ROUGH PATCH AND N'T BE AROUND EACH OTHER THAT OFTEN. FX FLUENCY: INVERTED, PL SUN-HYUNG LEE IS FLUENT ENGLISH AS HE MOVED TO CANADA AT JT A FEW MONTHS OLD, BUT APPA SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH WH AN ACCENT SCE HE ONLY IMMIGRATED OM KOREA TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. HIS NAME REALLY IS "BARKEEP": MISUNRSTOOD BY MR. MEHTA, WHO DON'T REALIZE THAT YEOBO AND APPA ARE KOREAN TERMS FOR "AR/HONEY" AND "DAD" AND SO UP TO A CERTA POT GENUELY ASSUM THEY ARE MR. KIM'S FIRST NAM. HOT FOR PREACHER: MILD SE WHEN PASTOR NA FIRST BE A PART OF THE CHURCH THE KIMS GO TO. MR. KIM BE LOT MORE ENTHIASTIC AROUND THIS NEW ATTRACTIVE PASTOR THAN PASTOR CHOI (AND CHURCH GENERAL), AND GO AS FAR AS TO LET HER GET THGS OM HIS STORE FOR EE. THEY REMA AMIBLE AFTER HER BUT EPISO BUT THIS TROPE OTHERWISE WEARS OFF. LAST-NAME BASIS: ALMOST ALWAYS LLED MR. KIM BY PEOPLE OTHER THAN HIS FAY, AND HE RETURNS THE FAVOUR FOR MANY OF HIS NON-WHE IENDS AND CTOMERS. DISCSED AND PLAYED FOR LGHS WHEN HE AND MR. MEHTA REALIZE THEY LL EACH OTHER THIS WAY BEE THEY DON'T REMEMBER EACH OTHER'S FIRST NAM TO BEG WH. MANLY TEARS: IN SEASON 3'S "OPEN KIMUNITN", A F OF RAGE DURG GROUP UPL UNSELG, HE PROCLAIMS THAT 'S POTLS TO BRG UP THGS THAT HAPPENED LONG AGO ONE'S LIFE, BUT ABPTLY STOPS WHEN HE MENTNS "A PARENT WHO NOT EVEN..." WHEN UMMA REALIZ THAT HE'S HAVG TROUBLE PROCSG PENT-UP GRIEF ABOUT HIS UPBRGG, SHE WARMLY HUGS HIM AS HE SHEDS A SGLE TEAR. PAPA WOLF: IS PISSED WHEN HE FDS OUT THE MEHTAS' SON, WHOM JA'S BEEN ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH, HAS JT BEE ENGAGED TO ANOTHER GIRL AND HE SE HOW HEARTBROKEN HIS DGHTER IS BY THE NEWS (SPE HER CLAIMS WAS ONLY A SUAL THG). WHEN THE BOY ATTEMPTS TO NONT JA, MR. KIM N'T HELP BUT GIVE HIM A BIG TALK-DOWN. A MORE EDIC EXAMPLE WH JA OCCURS WHEN SHE AND GERALD MOVE TO THEIR NEW HOME TOGETHER, AND MR. KIM (WHO WAS IALLY AGAST JA LIVG ALONE WH ANOTHER BOY) GIFTS HIS DGHTER A PHOTO HER PARENTS... AND GIFTS GERALD WH A PHOTO OF JT HIMSELF GLARG AT THE MERA, CLEARLY SENDG A MSAGE. (SLIGHTLY) PLAYED FOR LGHS; HE'S SUPER PROTECTIVE OF JUNG... THE RDBOARD STANE (WHICH MRS. KIM BROUGHT HOME), AND ANGRILY CHAS AFTER TWO TEENAGE BOYS WHEN THEY WRECK AND ATTEMPT TO STEAL SAID JUNG STANE. IN "KNIFE STRIFE", WHEN HE THKS A MAN IS THREATENG HIMSELF, UMMA, AND JA WH A KNIFE, APPA'S IMMEDIATE REACTN IS TO STAND BETWEEN THEM AND THE MAN WH THE KNIFE. UNNAMED PARENT: HE IS ALWAYS LLED MR. KIM (BY NON-FAY) OR APPA (BY FAY). HIS GIVEN NAME IS ONLY BRIEFLY SAID/SHOWN A FEW EPISOS,. PLAYED FOR LGHS WHEN 'S REVEALED MR. MEHTA DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HIS NAME AND HAD ALWAYS ASSUMED YEOBO OR APPA WAS HIS NAME. THE UN-SE: ON EVERY OCSN HE ATTEMPTS TO SHOW GERALD SOME KDNS, UALLY FOR SOME ULTERR MOTIVE, MR. KIM ENDS UP PUTTG ON FORCED S THAT EAKS GERALD OUT. WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: MR. KIM IS ON THE RECEIVG END OF SEVERAL NONTATNS ABOUT HIS BAD CISN-MAKG THROUGHOUT THE SERI: FROM MRS. KIM AFTER HE IMPLI THAT JA HAD STOLEN MONEY OM THE TILL (AN ACTN FOR WHICH HE HAD PREVLY KICKED OUT OF THE HOE HIS OWN SON). THE BALANCE WAS OFF BEE HE HAD NOT ACUNTED FOR THE "GAY DISUNTS" HE HAD BEEN GIVG THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. FROM MRS. KIM WHEN SHE DISVERS THAT HE HAD SOLD OFF HER CEMETERY PLOT (BUT NOT HIS OWN ADJACENT ONE) TO PAY FOR A SLHIE MACHE AND NEVER BOUGHT BACK. KIM YUNG-MI ("UMMA") SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: JEAN YOONTHE KIM FAY MATRIARCH, LOVG BUT ALSO CLED TO MEDDLE HER CHILDREN'S LIV. WHEN NOT WORKG AT THE STORE SHE VOLUNTEERS AT THE CHURCH THE FAY ATTENDS. BEFORE IMMIGRATG TO CANADA SHE WAS A TEACHER KOREA WH APPA. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: APPA LLS HER "YEOBO", AN AFFECTNATE KOREAN TERM ED BY MARRIED UPL. ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH: PRIMARILY SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH, WHICH IS UNRSTANDABLE SCE SHE IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. THIS IS DONE A MORE REALISTIC MANNER THAN MOST EXAMPL, AND SHE AND EVERYONE STILL MUNITE WH EACH OTHER FE. IT'S ALSO SLIGHTLY DOWNPLAYED PARED TO APPA, SCE YOON SPEAKS SLIGHTLY MORE CLEARLY THAN HIM. ASIAN STORE-OWNER: A KOREAN IMMIGRANT AND -OWNER OF THE TULAR STORE ALONG WH HER HBAND. SHE'S NSIRABLY MORE IENDLY AND APPROACHABLE THAN HER HBAND BUT IS JT AS PROUD AND SER ABOUT THE BS AS HE IS. PEOPLE APPARENTLY LIKE HER MORE THAN HER HBAND, AS 'S HER WHO RECEIV THE MOSS PARK BS PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR THE NVENIENCE STORE STEAD OF MR. KIM HIMSELF. CATCHPHRASE: LIKE HER HBAND, SHE HAS A HAB OF SAYG, "WHAT YOU TALKG?" DU MAG: BRAGS ABOUT HAVG GUYS ALL OVER HER BACK KOREA WHEN SHE WAS A DANCER. FX FLUENCY: INVERTED, JEAN YOON IS FLUENT ENGLISH AS SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED NORTH AMERI, BUT UMMA SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH WH AN ACCENT SCE SHE ONLY IMMIGRATED OM KOREA TO CANADA AS AN ADULT. I WANT GRANDKIDS: PART OF HER IAL OBSSN WH SETTG JA UP WH "OL, CHRISTIAN, KOREAN BOYS" IS SO THAT SHE N GIVE BIRTH TO MANY KIDS. JA IS VERY MUCH AGAST THIS, AND SO IS MR. KIM (ONLY BEE WOULD GET THE WAY OF JA NNG THE STORE AFTER HE RETIR, WHICH JA IS ALSO AGAST). LAST-NAME BASIS: ALMOST ALWAYS LLED MRS. KIM BY PEOPLE OTHER THAN HER FAY, AND SHE RETURNS THE FAVOUR FOR MANY OF HER NON-WHE IENDS AND CTOMERS. MISTAKEN FOR SERVANT: WHILE MRS. KIM IS STANDG NEXT TO THE FGER FOOD TABLE AT A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBN FOR JA, AN ELRLY WOMAN MISTAK HER FOR ONE OF THE WAG STAFF; SHE KEEPS ASKG HER ABOUT THE FOOD AND EVEN GIV HER AN ED NAPK TO DISRD. TURNS OUT THE THE ACTUAL WAER FOR THE TABLE IS ALSO ASIAN. MRS. KIM FDS THIS ACTUALLY PRETTY FUNNY, BUT JA FURLY REPORTS THIS TO MS. MURRAY BEE SHE THKS 'S RACIST. THGS GET AWKWARD WHEN THE ELRLY WOMAN TURNS OUT TO BE THE MA JUDGE FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD JA'S AIMG FOR, AND THE WOMAN AND MS. MURRAY ASSUME THEY'RE BEG BLACKMAILED TO GIVG JA THE AWARD EXCHANGE FOR SILENCE. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: OBSS OVER JA AND JUNG'S LIV MUCH MORE THAN THEY WOULD LIKE HER TO. THIS CLUS PANICKG OVER JA MOVG AWAY, TRYG TO PAIR HER UP WH OL CHRISTIAN KOREAN BOYS, AND SETTG JUNG UP WH AN EX-GIRLIEND (AS A JOT EFFORT WH HER MOTHER). THIS TRA IS LS PROMENT THE ORIGAL PLAY. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: KIMCHEE SE HER AS THE CLOST FAY HE'S GOT TOWN (HIS MOTHER IS CALGARY AND HE'S DISNNECTED OM HIS DAD'S SI), AND HE ALSO TENDS TO GET PAMPERED BY HER WHENEVER SHE VISS JUNG AT THEIR HOME. HE EVEN MAK HER HIS EMERGENCY NTACT, LEADG TO A PARAMEDIC TO MISTAKE MRS. KIM FOR HIS OWN MOTHER. UNNAMED PARENT: SHE IS ALWAYS LLED MRS. KIM (BY NON-FAY) OR UMMA (BY FAY). HER GIVEN NAME IS ONLY SAID/SHOWN A FEW TIM. WOMEN ARE WISER: SHE'S MUCH MORE GROUND THAN APPA IS, SPE HELIPTERG OVER JA. JUNG KIM SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: SIMU LIUTHE KIM FAY'S TRANGED SON. HE WAS A PETTY CRIMAL AS A TEENAGER, AND WAS KICKED OUT OF THE FAY'S HOME BY MR. KIM AFTER HE WAS UGHT STEALG MONEY OM THE STORE SAFE, BUT NOW IS GOG STRAIGHT. JUNG WORKS AT HANDY CAR RENTAL WH HIS IEND AND ROOMMATE KIMCHEE. 10-MUTE RETIREMENT: AT THE END OF SEASON 2 HE VOLUNTARILY LEAV HIS JOB AT HANDY CAR RENTAL BEE HE ASSUM HE'S GUARANTEED A NEW JOB AT THEIR RIVAL PANY. UNFORTUNATELY SAID PANY REJECTS HIM THE END DUE TO HIS LQUENT PAST. TOO STUBBORN TO GO BACK, HE TRI TO FD OTHER WORK AT THE BEGNG OF SEASON 3 (WHILE PRETENDG TO BE WORKG AT HIS NEW JOB BEE HE'S TOO ASHAMED TO TELL THE TTH); AFTER NO SUCCS, HE EVENTUALLY ASKS SHANNON TO LET HIM E BACK, WHICH SHE RELUCTANTLY AGRE TO (ON THE NDN THAT THEY FET ABOUT THE KISS THEY SHARED). AGE LIFT: 32 YEARS OLD THE PLAY, BUT 24 AT THE START OF THE TV SHOW. ALHOL-INDUCED IDCY: MAKG A MS OF HIMSELF DUE TO TOO MUCH ALHOL SEEMED TO BE SOMETHG JUNG DID WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER. THE REASON HIS EX-GIRLIEND GRACE BROKE UP WH HIM AS TEENS WAS BEE HE TURNED UP TO HER FAY DNER DNK AND THREW UP ON WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS A TREE ( WAS HER UNCLE) AND PUNCHED WHAT HE ALSO THOUGHT WAS A TREE (ALSO HER UNCLE). ASCEND EXTRA: MOR EXAMPLE. ALTHOUGH HARDLY UNIMPORTANT THE ORIGAL PLAY, JUNG ACTUALLY ONLY APPEARS TWO SCEN. IN THE TV ADAPTATN (WHICH EXPANDS ON MANY TAILS), HE APPEARS AS EQUENTLY AS THE RT OF HIS FAY. BAD "BAD ACTG": OVERACTS WHENEVER HE ATTEMPTS TO LIE, SUCH AS GETTG OUT OF A LUNCH DATE WH A FEMALE WORKER TO GO EAT WH SHANNON AND PRETENDG TO BE VISG KIMCHEE'S APARTMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME (BEE KIMCHEE'S MOTHER ISN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW HE LIV THERE). BOOK DUMB: LAMPSHAD BY KIMCHEE WHEN JUNG'S LACK OF TELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS MA PAFULLY OBV AFTER FLOPPG TRIVIA NIGHT WH JA'S GROUP; WHEN ASKED BY JUNG IF HE THKS HE'S DUMB, KIMCHEE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO CLARIFY THAT HE ISN'T DUMB DUMB AND IS STREET-SMART, "GIRL-SMART, "EAT-SMART" — JT NOT BOOK-SMART. JTIFIED AS HE DIDN'T END UP FISHG HIGH SCHOOL BACK HIS TEENS — HE CIS TO FIX THIS AND GETS HIS GED AT THE END OF SEASON 2. EVEN SPE THE IAL LACKG TN, JUNG IS STILL A PABLE ASSISTANT MANAGER AT WORK AND GOOD AT HANDLG PEOPLE. CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: BEEN GOOD IENDS WH KIMCHEE SCE CHILDHOOD, AND THE TWO ARE STILL BT IENDS THAT LIVE AND WORK TOGETHER. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: DPE HIS IENDLY AND FAIRLY UPBEAT MEANOUR, JUNG HAD TO GO THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME DURG HIS YOUTH WHICH HAS AFFECTED WHAT HE'S BEE TODAY. HE WAS KICKED OUT OF (OR RAN AWAY OM) HIS HOE AT 16 FOR STEALG MONEY OM THE FAY BS, WHICH LED TO HIM NOT FISHG HIGH SCHOOL AND SPENDG TIME JUVENILE TENTN. HE STILL HAS A POOR RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER BEE OF THIS, SO MUCH SO THAT THEY AVOID SPEAKG TO EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH HE'S CLEAN NOW, HIS MOTHER STILL FEELS EMBARRASSED WHEN BRGG UP HIS LQUENT PAST. EMBARRASSG NICKNAME: ACRDG TO HIS DAD, JUNG GOT TEASED WH MANY EMBARRASSG VARIATNS OF HIS NAME AS A KID SUCH AS DUMB DUMB JUNG, PG PONG JUNG AND DONKEY KONG JUNG. THIS IS WHY MR. AND MRS. KIM GAVE JA AN ENGLISH "SAFE" NAME. FORMER TEEN REBEL: JUNG WAS A LQUENT HIS YOUTH, BUT HAS GONE STRAIGHT NOW. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HAS A CLOSE IENDSHIP WH KIMCHEE WHO IS ALSO BOTH A WORK LLEAGUE AND HIS ROOMMATE. DPE THEIR ROMANC WH GIRLS, THEY RARELY APPEAR WHOUT EACH OTHER. MEANGFUL NAME: JUNG (정) REFERS TO A TYPE OF LOVE AND ATTACHMENT (NOT NECSARILY ROMANTIC) BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, A LOVE SO STRONG WHSTANDS EVEN HATE AND TIME. THIS IS APPLIBLE TO JUNG'S RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER; H THE ROCKS AFTER HE LEFT HOME, BUT THE SERI SHOWS THAT SPE THEIR DIFFERENC THEY STILL LOVE AND RE FOR ONE ANOTHER. MR. FANSERVICE: HIS TONED BODY IS GREATLY APPRECIATED BY OTHER GIRLS (TO THE POT OF HAVG HIS OWN "FANCLUB" WHENEVER HE PLAYS BASKETBALL OUTSI), PECIALLY WHEN HE'S SHIRTLS. MY SISTER IS OFF-LIMS: BE A MOR FOC WHEN ALEX STARTS DATG JA ONE EPISO. JUNG GENUELY WANTS TO SUPPORT HIS IEND AND SISTER BUT FEELS ICKED OUT BY THEIR PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTN AND EVENTUALLY SPEAKS UP ABOUT HIS DISFORT. OBLIV TO LOVE: FOR MUCH OF SEASON 1 HE IS OBLIV TO SHANNON'S OBV CSH ON HIM. PERSON AS VERB: KIMCHEE DO NOT ENJOY GETTG "JUNGED" IE. HAVG GIRLS TERTED HIMSELF ABANDON HIM ONCE THEY MEET JUNG WHO IS NVENTNALLY MORE ATTRACTIVE -SERI. REFORMED, BUT REJECTED: DPE MAKG AN EFFORT TO LEAD A MUCH BETTER LIFE THAN WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGE LQUENT, HIS FATHER STILL REF TO TALK TO HIM FOR MUCH OF SEASON 1. HOWEVER, UMMA AND JA STILL KEEP TOUCH WH HIM SECRET (ALTHOUGH UMMA SOMETIM OBSS OVER HOW OTHER PEOPLE THK OF HIM). JUNG'S EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS DO NOT GO UNAFFECTED BY HIS PAST. IN THE SEASON 2 FALE, THE RIVAL R RENTAL THAT ACCEPTED HIM AS AN APPLINT TURNS HIM DOWN AFTER HIS JUVENILE LQUENCY UP THE BACKGROUND CHECK. SHIRTLS SCENE: WILL REMOVE HIS SHIRT AT THE SLIGHTT PROVOTN.KIMCHEE: (REFERRG TO THE WORK STANE OF JUNG) I LL HIM THE PERFECT JUNG. JA: BEE HE DON'T TALK OR TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT? "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: HIS FATHER'S REJECTN OF HIM HAS OBVLY HURT HIM THE MOST AND IS THE REASON HE AVOIDS HIM. ADDNALLY, HE'S UPSET THAT HIS MOTHER STILL OBSS OVER HIS PAST AND WHAT OTHER PEOPLE AT CHURCH THK OF HIM, AND MAK A POT THAT HE DON'T RE WHAT THEY THK BUT R ABOUT WHAT SHE THKS OF HIM. JA KIM SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: ANDREA BANGTHE YOUNGER CHILD THE FAY, JA OFTEN BUTTS HEADS WH HER FATHER OVER HIS TRADNALISM. SHE ATTENDS ART SCHOOL AT OCAD UNIVERSY TO STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY. ACCINTAL MISNAMG: JA HERSELF MISPRONOUNC AND MISSPELLS HER BRIEF STAGE NAME EUI KYUNG SCE SHE'S NOT ED TO NOR HAS VERY GOOD KOREAN PRONUNCIATN. SHE KEEPS SAYG THE I PART AS "OI" STEAD OF "UI" SPE HER FATHER RRECTG HER MULTIPLE TIM, AND SHE RRECTLY SPELLS TWO DIFFERENT WAYS ON THE BS RDS AND HER POSTER (WHICH IS WRTEN AS EIU KYUNG) DURG HER STUNT EXHIBN. THIS ENDS UP NFG THE OTHER PEOPLE AT THE EXHIBN (NONE OF THEM KOREAN), AND THEY MAKE WORSE BY BATG HOW 'S PRONOUNCED. A-CUP ANGST: IMPLIED BY ONE OF THE LETTERS SHE WROTE TO NAYOUNG WHEN THEY WERE KIDS, WH A YOUNG JA SOUNDG UNHAPPY WH HER LACK OF BOOB GROWTH DURG HER PUBERTY.NAYOUNG: (READG) "I THK MAYBE MY BOOB IS GETTG SMALLER." AERH AND BOB: THE ONLY MEMBER OF HER FAY TO HAVE AN ENGLISH FIRST NAME STEAD OF KOREAN (ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY HER PARENTS HAD EACH WANTED TO GIVE HER A KOREAN NAME BUT ULDN'T AGREE ON WHICH ONE). HER FATHER JTIFI BY SAYG HE WANTED TO GIVE HER A SAFE ENGLISH NAME TO AVOID HER GETTG BULLIED LIKE JUNG. ANNOYED BY HOW MON OF A NAME JA KIM IS THE PHOTOGRAPHY BS, SHE BRIEFLY ATTEMPTS TO GIVE HERSELF A PROFSNAL KOREAN NAME EUI KYUNG. AFFECTNATE NICKNAME: AFFECTNATELY LLED EONNI (A TERM FOR ONE'S OLR SISTER OR OLR SISTER FIGURE) BY HER NAYOUNG. SHE GETS SICK OF BEG LLED THIS DURG NAYOUNG'S FIRST VIS, FDG CHILDISH, BUT IS FE WH AGA AFTER THE TWO S MAKE UP. AGE LIFT: A 30 YEAR OLD LLEGE GRADUATE AND PROFSNAL PHOTOGRAPHER THE PLAY, BUT A 20-YEAR-OLD PHOTOGRAPHY STUNT THE TV SHOW. ASIAN AND NERDY: PLAYED WH. JA'S ON A SCHOLARSHIP AND GENERALLY PLAC FIRST/VERY HIGH CLASS, A STARK NTRAST TO HER BOOK DUMB BROTHER WHO ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE GOT THE LOOKS WHILE SHE GOT THE BRAS. HOWEVER, SHE STUDI PHOTOGRAPHY AT AN ART SCHOOL STEAD OF THE TYPILLY MORE NERDY AREAS ASIANS ARE STEREOTYPED WH LIKE STEM OR BS. ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH: SHE VOK THIS TROPE WHEN SHE PRETENDS TO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH WELL AFTER A SECURY GUARD TCH HER TRYG TO SNEAK TO A FILM FTIVAL. THIS UNFORTUNATELY HNTS HER WHEN THE SECURY GUARD NS TO HER AT THE STORE A FEW TIM, AND DURG THE SEND TIME JUNG AND KIMCHEE ALSO HAVE TO FAKE ACCENTED TERRIBLE ENGLISH TO PROTECT JA'S SECRET. MRS. KIM IS UNIMPRSED BY HER DGHTER AND ANGRILY ASKS HER, "YOU PRETEND TO TALK LIKE ME TO GET A EE MOVIE TICKET?" BTAL HONTY: WILL SAY WHAT'S ON HER MD EVEN IF N BE HURTFUL. THIS CLUS HER HAVG ENOUGH OF NAYOUNG'S OVERLY SWEET BEHAVUR AND WHEN SHE AND GERALD IALLY STGGLE TO PUT UP WH EACH OTHER'S BAD HABS AT THEIR NEW VOKED CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: BEEN WELL-ACQUATED WH HER BROTHER'S IEND KIMCHEE SCE CHILDHOOD, AND THEY ENJOY EACH OTHER'S PANY WHEN THEY GO OUT FOR DNER WHILE JUNG GO ON A DATE. OLD LETTERS SHE WROTE TO NAYOUNG REVEAL SHE ED TO HAVE A CSH ON HIM AS A KID. COMPRSED VICE: A SEASON 4 EPISO HAS CHARACTERS CRICISG JA FOR BEG TOO UNEMOTNAL AND DISTANT, LIKE A ROBOT. THIS NTRADICTS WH HER UAL BEHAVUR WHERE SHE IS AS EXPRSIVE AS EVERYONE ELSE AND IS ACTUALLY PRONE TO EAKG OUT. DADDY'S GIRL: AN EMOTNAL NVERSATN WH MR. KIM SEASON 4 IMPLI THAT SHE LOV HER FATHER THE MOST OUT OF EVERYONE HER FAY, WH THE SENTIMENT BEG RECIPROTED. DEAD GUY JUNR: WHEN FEELG DOWN ABOUT HER BORG HER NAME APPARENTLY IS, JA IS RMED BY HER MOTHER OF S SIGNIFINCE — SHE SHAR THE SAME NAME AS THE CEASED ELRLY WOMAN THAT HELPED THE NEWLY-ARRIVED MRS. KIM WH HER ENGLISH AND LOOKED AFTER JUNG (AND BROUGHT THEM BANANA BREAD). GRATUO FOREIGN LANGUAGE: DPE BEG OF KOREAN HERAGE, JA DO NOT APPEAR TO BE AT ALL FLUENT THE LANGUAGE. SHE KNOWS ENOUGH KOREAN TO MUNITE TO HER MOTHER (ALBE BADLY) WHEN SHE DON'T WANT MR MEHTA TO KNOW WHAT SHE'S SAYG, BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR HER TO TALK TO A KOREAN WAER (TO PROVE SHE'S JT AS KOREAN AS HER NAYOUNG) WHOUT BUTCHERG THE PRONUNCIATN VERY BADLY. AFTER STUDYG THE LANGUAGE AND PREPARG FOR HIS TRIP TO KOREA, EVEN GERALD SPEAKS AND UNRSTANDS MORE THAN HER. HAT BEG TOUCHED: DOWNPLAYED, SHE'S HAPPY DATG JUNG'S IEND ALEX BUT HER IENDS OBSERVE THE TWO AND POT OUT THAT JA DON'T REALLY EMBRACE ALEX'S PHYSIL TIMACY. WHEN SHE ATTEMPTS TO ACT MORE LIKE SICKENGLY SWEETHEARTS WH HIM, 'S OBV SHE DON'T LIKE ALL THAT MUCH. LIKE PARENT, LIKE CHILD: DPE THE TWO BUTTG HEADS, JA SHAR MANY TRAS WH HER FATHER SUCH AS HIS BTAL HONTY (WHICH HE ONCE LAMPSHAS). NO SOCIAL SKILLS: DOWNPLAYED, AS SHE SOCIALIS WH HER IENDS AND FAY FE BUT IS VERY AWKWARD AT EXPRSG HERSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE. HER IAL EFFORTS TO MAKE SMALL TALK WH DREE ARE PAFUL, SHE FDS DIFFICULT TO NONT PEOPLE AND HAS A TERRIBLE SE OF DIGGG YOURSELF DEEPER. THIS TRA IS LS PRENT THE PLAY, WHICH HER TERACTN WH NON-FAY IS MORE LIMED. ONE-STEVE LIM: HOW HANDY THIS TROPE WOULD BE IS DISCSED WHEN HER PROFSOR TRI TO FD HER PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSE AND FAILS BEE THERE'S JT THAT MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS LLED JA KIM. JA ATTEMPTS TO "REBRAND" HERSELF AS EUI KYUNG TO STAND OUT, BUT THE OTHERS (NON-KOREAN) STEAD JT STUMBLE OVER HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME. OOH, ME ACCENT'S SLIPPG: DURG HER ASIAN SPEEKEE ENGRISH VER SHE SLIPS TO HER FLUENT NON-ACCENTED ENGLISH A FEW TIM WHICH NF THE SECURY GUARD, BUT HER VER ISN'T BLOWN UNTIL RIGHT AT THE END WHEN SHE FEELS GUILTY AND NFS. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: CLOSE IENDS WH GERALD WHOM SHE OTHERWISE SHOWS NO ROMANTIC TERT WHATSOEVER. THE TWO EQUENTLY HANG OUT TOGETHER AND STILL BUY A PLACE TOGETHER EVEN AFTER THEIR THIRD IEND BAILS OUT. THE SEASON 4 FALE SUGGTS THEIR IENDSHIP ISN'T PLETELY EE OF UNROLVED SEXUAL TENSN, LEADG THEM TO KISS, BUT SHE'S UNWILLG TO FOLLOW UP ON (PECIALLY WH RAJ BACK THE PICTURE) AND BIDS FAREWELL TO GERALD AS IENDS. PREC CSH: OLD CHILDHOOD/TEENAGE LETTERS OM JA THAT NAYOUNG KEPT REVEAL THAT JA ED TO HAVE CSH ON ALL OF HER OLR BROTHER JUNG'S IENDS, CLUDG KIMCHEE. JA IS EMBARRASSED ABOUT THE LAST ONE AND GO OUT OF HER WAY TO AVOID REVEALG THIS TO JUNG AND KIMCHEE UNTIL NAYOUNG SPILLS. STAGE NAM: BRIEFLY ATTEMPTED WHEN JA REALIZ ALL THE OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS NAMED JA KIM DROWN HER OUT THE GOOGLE RULTS. SHE CIS TO LL HERSELF EUI KYUNG (NOTE THAT SHE DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN A KOREAN NAME BY HER PARENTS). THE UNFAVORE: JA FEELS UNSUPPORTED BY HER PARENTS, EVEN AFTER JUNG WAS KICKED OUT OF THE HOE. THIS BE A PLOT POT AT THE END OF SEASON 2 WHEN SHE GETS TRATED BY THEM CELEBRATG JUNG'S GED STEAD OF HER GRADUATN AND TRI TO ACT OUT BY RIDG AROUND HER MOTORCYCLE. THIS TROPE DON'T APPLY AT LEAST TO HER WH HER FATHER, WHO HTS THAT HE LOV HER THE MOST THE FAY. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: JA'S THEN-BOYIEND RAJ GETS ENGAGED TO ANOTHER GIRL WHOUT TELLG HER FIRST, WHICH BREAKS HER HEART SCE SHE WAS TAKG THEIR RELATNSHIP MORE SERLY THAN SHE CLAIMED. LATER RAJ SHOWS TERT HER AGA AND NFS TO HER THAT THE ENGAGEMENT WAS A MISTAKE, BUT JA ISN'T TOTALLY NVCED AND IS VISIBLY IRRATED BY HIM. THGS GET PLITED WHEN HE DO END UP BREAKG THE ENGAGEMENT OFF AND BE CLEAR JA STILL HAS FEELGS FOR HIM, SPE GETTG A NEW BOYIEND HERSELF. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: APPRECIAT THE RARE PRAISE OM HER PARENTS, PECIALLY OM HER DAD. SHE'S EVEN HAPPY WH TAKG A PHOTO OF APPA TO GO UP ON THE "DON'T-TOUCH WALL" AND HAVG GERALD TAKE THE CRED SCE APPA WOULDN'T HAD APPRECIATED THE PHOTO OTHERWISE. KIMCHEE HAN SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: ANDREW PHUNGJUNG'S CHILDHOOD BT IEND, ROOMMATE, AND WORKER AT HANDY CAR RENTAL. BERSERK BUTTON: VERY PROTECTIVE OF HIS SPECIAL SNEAKERS LLECTN WHICH HE REF TO WEAR SO THEY STAY GOOD NDN. JUNG ACCINTALLY GETTG BURRO JUICE ON THEM WHEN MSG AROUND WH HIS EMPTY BURRO PAPER WRAP MAK KIMCHEE SUPER PISSED AND HOSTILE ENOUGH THAT JUNG GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO BUY NEW ON TO MAKE UP TO HIM.KIMCHEE: CAREFUL. HE'LL STROY EVERYTHG YOU LOVE. [LATER ON, OVER THE LOUDSPEAKER AT WORK] EVERYTHG YOU LOVE. BIG FUN: ON THE LARGER SI AND IS VERY PLAYFUL AND IENDLY. DISAPPEARED DAD: KIMCHEE'S DAD ABANDONED HIS FAY AT SOME POT HIS CHILDHOOD. KIMCHEE'S ONLY MEMORY OF HIM IS THE TWO OF THEM EATG KIMCHI TOGETHER AND THE NAME KIMCHEE SELF (WHICH HIS DAD ME UP WH), WHICH IS WHY HE'S VERY PROTECTIVE OF HIS IN-SERI NICKNAME. IN THE SERI FALE HE GO GENE HUNTG FOR HIS FATHER. IT TURNS OUT THE GUY HE TRACKED DOWN WAS A DIFFERENT GUY WH THE SAME NAME. CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: BEEN IENDS WH JUNG AND JA SCE CHILDHOOD. HE'S STILL JUNG'S BT IEND THE PRENT AND IS ON GOOD TERMS WH JA. DO NOT CALL ME "PL": IT'S IMPLIED HE HAS SOME DISDA FOR HIS REAL NAME WHEN SHANNON IS ANGRY AT KIMCHEE AND REFERS TO HIM AS ARNOLD WHILE AT THE OFFICE, TO WHICH KIMCHEE REPLI, "STOOPG TO MY LEGAL NAME. COLD." HIS PREFERRED NICKNAME IS ALWAYS ED, EVEN WHEN SIGNG HIS WORKERS' PAYCHECKS, SCE 'S HIS ONLY MEMORY LEFT OF HIS FATHER WHO ABANDONED HIM. FX FLUENCY: MILD AS ANDREW PHUNG'S EFFORTS HIS KOREAN ARE ADMIRABLE, BUT THE FEW TIM WE HEAR KIMCHEE SPEAK KOREAN EVINTLY DO NOT SOUND AS FLUENT AS THE KOREAN SPOKEN BY HIS ACTUAL KOREAN -STARS. FORMER TEEN REBEL: LIKE JUNG, KIMCHEE WAS A LQUENT HIS YOUTH BEFORE MATURG AS AN ADULT (BUT HE STILL HAS A REBELL SI). HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HAS A CLOSE IENDSHIP WH JUNG WHO IS ALSO BOTH A WORK LLEAGUE AND HIS ROOMMATE. DPE THEIR ROMANC WH GIRLS, THEY RARELY APPEAR WHOUT EACH OTHER. HIDN DEPTHS: HE APPARENTLY ENJOYS WATCHG DOCUMENTARI, SOMETHG JUNG HAS NO TERT . HE EVEN BE VISIBLY CHOKED UP WHEN RELATG THE PLOT OF A MOVIE HE SAW ABOUT STREET TS. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: MILD AS HE ISN'T QUE A JERK (EXCEPT TO TERRENCE) AND IS STEAD JT SOMETIM NSIRATE OR PUTS HIMSELF FIRST STEAD OF DOG THE RIGHT THG. NEVERTHELS, HE'S EASY TO GET ALONG WH, POLE TO ELRS, AND IS ALSO THE ONE WHO TOOK JUNG AND GOT HIM WORK WHEN HE WAS KICKED OUT OF HOME AND STGGLG ON HIS OWN. KARMA HOUDI: PRR TO THE START OF THE SERI HE GOT AWAY WH SHOPLIFTG SMARTPHON, WHILE JUNG WAS NOT AS LUCKY. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: HE AND EVERYONE HIS NICKNAME KIMCHEE, TO THE POT THAT HIS NAME SIGN HIS OFFICE EVEN SAYS "KIMCHEE HAN". HIS WORKERS ARE NFED WHEN THEY FD OUT 'S NOT HIS ACTUAL NAME. HE SISTS ON G THE NICKNAME RATHER THAN HIS REAL NAME, ARNOLD BEE 'S ONE OF THE FEW MEMORI OF HIS FATHER. O.O.C. IS SER BS: JUNG IS SPIC WHEN KIMCHEE MAK AN EFFORT TO CLEAN UP THEIR PLACE AND BUY A LOT OF THGS SPE UALLY BEG A B SLOPPY. HE EVENTUALLY FDS OUT THAT THIS IS DUE TO KIMCHEE MAKG CENT MONEY OFF OF AN UBER-EQUIVALENT BS. RANK UP: BE THE NEW ASSISTANT MANAGER AT HANDY CAR RENTAL AT THE END OF SEASON 2 AFTER JUNG LEAV THE PLACE FOR ANOTHER JOB (WHICH, UNBEKNOWNST TO KIMCHEE, HE DON'T GET THE END). KIMCHEE ENJOYS FLNTG HIS NEW STAT SEASON 3 BUT OTHERWISE DO A SUFFICIENT JOB, AND JUNG REF TO TELL HIM HE WAS REJECTED BY THE OTHER R RENTAL BEE HE DON'T WANT HIM TO FEEL BAD FOR TAKG HIS OLD POSN. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO PLEASE HIS MOTHER WHEN SHE VISS HIM SEASON 3. HE EVEN PRETENDS TO HAVE CUT TI WH JUNG SCE SHE DON'T LIKE HIM AND NSIRS HIM A BAD FLUENCE—TURNS OUT WHENEVER HIS MUM UGHT HIM WH BAD STUFF HIS YOUTH, HE LIED AND BLAMED ON JUNG. SHANNON ROSS SOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: NILE POWERJUNG AND KIMCHEE'S MANAGER AT HANDY CAR RENTAL, ORIGALLY OM NOVA STIA. SHE MEANS WELL BUT HER ATTEMPTS TO APPEAR OL OFTEN E OFF AWKWARD. ANIMAL LOVER: SHE DOT ON HER TS, GETS QUICKLY ATTACHED TO A LOST DOG, AND IS EAGER TO HELP AN JURED PIGEON REVER RATHER THAN GIVG A MERCY KILL (LIKE JUNG WAS ABOUT TO DO). BENEVOLENT BOSS: SHANNON TREATS HER EMPLOYE RATHER WELL AND IS VERY PLEASANT TO WORK WH. CANNOT KEEP A SECRET: WHEN NONTG JUNG ABOUT THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PLAT MA AGAST HIM, SHE IALLY ATTEMPTS TO HI THE PLAER'S INTY BUT DON'T DO A GREAT JOB AT HIDG THEIR GENR ("HE'S REQUTED THAT HIS NAME, OR SHE, HER NAME, OR HIS, REMA ANONYMO") AND EVENTUALLY DON'T EVEN BOTHER AVOIDG THEIR NAME ALTOGETHER ("BUT IF KIMCHEE, OR HER, CIS TO FILE A FORMAL PLAT I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SEND THIS ON UP"). COUNTRY MOE: SHE'S OM RAL NOVA STIA, AND HAS TROUBLE FTG WH JUNG AND KIMCHEE. COVERT PERVERT: JUNG'S EXPLAG DDONGJEEM AS THE CULTURAL EQUIVALENT OF A WEDGIE LEAV HER NFED BUT ALSO VERY CUR. ENARGLY DORKY: AWKWARD BUT ENARG HER ATTEMPTS TO BE OL AND RELATABLE TO PEOPLE AT WORK, AS WELL AS WHEN SHE LETS LOOSE. JUNG HAS MIXED FEELGS ABOUT HER AT FIRST BUT HER DORKY PERSONALY GROWS ON HIM, AND HIM TCHG HER SGG OVER THE SPEAKERS WHEN CLOSG UP THE WORKPLACE IS THE FIRST CLEAR SIGN THAT HE'S BEGUN RECIPROTG HER FEELGS. EXTREME DOORMAT: HER EFFORTS BEG THE NICE "OL" BOSS N MAKE EASY TO FOOL HER OR E HER. JUNG IS WARY OF THIS WHEN HE THKS JA IS TAKG ADVANTAGE OF HER KDNS ORR TO GO TO A NCERT HER VERY FIRST WEEKEND SHIFT AT THEIR WORKPLACE. INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: SHE HAS PREJUDIC TOWARD PEOPLE RAISED THE CY AS BEG MORE AGGRSIVE, BUT THIS IS BASED ON BEG OM CAPE BRETON THAN ANY ACTUAL MALICE. SHE'S ALSO OCSNALLY CULTURALLY-SENSIVE WHOUT MEANG TO. MAYDECEMBER ROMANCE: SHE'S OLR THAN JUNG. STEPFORD SER: SHANNON IS A CHEERFUL PERSON, BUT A SMALL BREAKDOWN SEASON 4 REVEALS SHE'S UNHAPPY ABOUT THE WAY HER LIFE TURNED OUT, WHICH IS WHY SHE'S TERMED TO GIVE STACIE A MEMORABLE 30TH BIRTHDAY WORK PARTY. TOKEN WHE: THE ONLY WHE MEMBER OF THE MA ST. SHE IS AMIBLE AND RPECTFUL OF CULTUR OTHER THAN HER OWN, BUT OCSNALLY CROSS TO INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE TERRORY. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: HARBOURS A BIG CSH ON JUNG SEASON 1 AND MAK SOME ATTEMPTS TO WOO HIM, SOMETHG THAT HE EHER DON'T NOTICE OR CHOOS TO IGNORE. WHEN HE FALLY STARTS TO REALIZE HIS FEELGS FOR HER, SHE'S ALREADY MOVED ON AND STARTED DATG ALEJANDRO. THE FALE OF SEASON 2 REVEALS SHE STILL HAS FEELGS FOR JUNG BUT SHE REF TO ACT ON THEM BEE OF HER RELATNSHIP WH ALEJANDRO.RECURRG CHARACTERS

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Why do I give a gay disunt, hmm? "Gay Disunt" is the first episo the first season of Kim's Convenience.

Season 1: Convenient Advice: Gay Tak Time - Kim's Convenience

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