Korean diasporic perceptions of Canada in the light of the CBC TV series Kim's Convenience
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on the Korean-Canadian playwright Ins Choi's play Kim's Convenience, the TV series of the same name (which started airing on CBC in the fall of 2016 and is now in its third season) centers around the Kim family, who immigrated from Korea in the 1980s and run a convenience store in present-day Toronto. The series abounds in references to the Kim family's observations of their environment, and their typical first- and second-generation Korean Canadian responses to it. However, while the play tends to gravitate towards diasporic issues, the series can be seen as a transnational variation of the play presented through the Korean diasporic lens. Accordingly, the article will analyze the episodes of the first season of the TV series with two aims in mind. Firstly, it will attempt to shed light on the differences between the first- and the second-generation Korean immigrants' perception of Canada. Secondly, it will estimate how the Kim family's interaction with their environment is representative of a new transnational culture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".