He continued that the writer's room "lacked both East Asian and female representation" and a pipeline to introduce diverse talents, claims that align with the racial reckoning currently happening across the border in Hollywood as the industry continues to hire and foster more inclusive sets and writer's rooms. "Aside from Ins [Choi], there were no other Korean voices in the room. And personally, I do not think he did enough to be a champion for those voices (including ours)," Liu posted. "When he left (without so much as a goodbye note to the cast), he left no protégé, no padawan learner, no Korean talent that could have replaced him."
Liu said he tried to offer his talents, sending scripts and short films as a way to prove his worth, while also speaking up, as did his castmates, "but those doors were never opened to us in any meaningful way." His colleague, series star Paul Sun Hyung Lee, also shared his frustrations regarding the show's cancelation in March when he told the Calgary Herald, that creator Choi stopped speaking to him. "He ghosted me," he said. "I'm very hurt by that, to be honest."
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Now that that's changed, he also came clean on pay, saying that he felt the cast was underpaid "for how successful the show actually became
"The whole process has really opened my eyes to the relationship between those with power and those without. In the beginning, we were no-name actors who had ZERO leverage. So of course, we were going to take anything we could. After one season, after the show debuted to sky-high ratings, we received a little bump-up that also extended the duration of our contracts by two years," he said, citing a fellow Canadian comedy Schitt's Creek as a comparison in that they were making nothing compared to the actors on that series who had "brand name talent" recognition. "But we also never banded together and demanded more — probably because we were told to be grateful to even be there, and because we were too scared to rock the boat."
