Best Korean Series for Foodies on Netflix

Image: Culinary Wars, Enterprise Proposal, and Mr. Queen

Acquired a style for Korean reveals about meals? Right here’s what to look at! From heartfelt dramas to cooks battling out within the kitchen, there’s lots for foodies to get pleasure from from Korean reveals on Netflix.

The model new Netflix Unique Korean sequence Tastefully Yours is making us hungry. Kang Ha-neul (When the Camellia Blooms) performs Han Beom-woo, pompous inheritor to a meals conglomerate on the hunt for the right recipe. Gifted small-town chef Mo Yeon-joo (The Frog‘s Ko Min-si) agrees to assist him on the situation that he get his palms soiled working in her restaurant. Romance ensues. You may learn our full preview of Tastefully Yours right here.

This new sequence obtained us questioning: what are one of the best food-themed Ok-dramas on Netflix? And what are some nice unscripted Netflix reveals about Korean delicacies? Let’s dig in!

Finest Meals-themed Ok-dramas

Enterprise Proposal (2022)

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 12
Solid: Ahn Hyo-seop, Kim Se-jeong, Kim Min-gue, Seol In-ah, Lee Deok-hwa

Like Tastefully Yours, Enterprise Proposal is one other Netflix Unique romantic comedy with ties to a meals conglomerate. Culinary scientist Shin Ha-ri (Kim Se-jeong, The Uncanny Counter) impersonates her wealthy buddy on a blind date, solely to find that her date Kang Tae-moo (Ahn Hyo-seop, A Time Known as You) is the CEO of the corporate the place she works. When Tae-moo affords to pay Ha-ri to faux to be his girlfriend to placate his overbearing grandpa, she has to determine easy methods to maintain her day job a secret from him — all whereas inventing the corporate’s subsequent hit product!
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Mr. Queen (2020)

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 20
Solid: Shin Hye-sun, Kim Jung-hyun, Bae Jong-ok, Kim Tae-woo, Jo Yun-hee

We will’t say sufficient good issues about Mr. Queen. An smug, womanizing chef practically dies, solely to get up greater than 100 years prior to now. Worse, he’s within the physique of the newlywed queen — and the king is prepared for his or her honeymoon night time. As if time-travel and body-swapping weren’t unhealthy sufficient, Joseon-era delicacies leaves lots to be desired. Time for this uncommon queen to get within the kitchen and get to work! This historic romantic comedy affords an fascinating peek again in time, and it’s extremely humorous because of a beautiful efficiency by Shin Hae-sun (See You in My nineteenth Life) as a person trapped in a girl’s physique.
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Chocolate (2019)

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 16
Solid: Yoon Kye-sang, Ha Ji-won, Jang Seung-jo, Min Jin-woong, Kang Boo-ja

The Netflix Unique romance Chocolate combines the culinary arts with medical drama. Household stress forces Lee Kang (The Frog‘s Yoon Kye-sang) to develop into a surgeon and quit his dream of working a restaurant like his mom, however their restaurant conjures up Moon Cha-yeong (Manhunt) to develop into a chef. Kang and Cha-yeong reunite years later engaged on a hospice ward, the place her scrumptious dishes provoke sturdy reactions.
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Tastiest Unscripted Korean Exhibits

Culinary Class Wars (2024)

Seasons: 1 (for now)
Episodes: 12
Solid: Baek Jong-won, Ahn Sung-jae, Choi Hyun-seok, Jung Ji-seon, Yeo Kyung-rae

Culinary Class Wars is without doubt one of the most bingeable cooking competitors reveals on the market. 20 well-known cooks are pitted in opposition to 80 up-and-coming cooks in a battle to find out one of the best of one of the best, as judged by restaurateur Paik Jong-won and Michelin three-star chef Ahn Sung-jae. The challenges are high-stakes, with all the stress deriving from the duty at hand (no manufactured interpersonal drama right here). The sequence was so common that Netflix nearly instantly picked it up for a second season, which is predicted to air later in 2025.
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Chef & My Fridge (2025)

Seasons: 1
Episodes: new episodes weekly
Hosted By: Kim Sung-joo

After a several-year hiatus, the long-running competitors present Chef & My Fridge (aka “Please Take Care of My Fridge“) is again! A brand new episode of the rebooted sequence arrives on Netflix every Sunday, a number of weeks after it premieres on terrestrial tv in South Korea. In every episode, two celeb visitors carry their fridges to the studio. Eight cooks — together with a number of of the opponents from Culinary Class Wars — face off utilizing simply the contents of the fridges to make dishes designed to win the hearts and style buds of that celeb visitor — however they solely get quarter-hour to prepare dinner! Not solely is Chef & My Fridge a powerful show of ability and creativity, it’s hysterically humorous because the cooks who aren’t competing cheer and heckle these engaged in battle.
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Rhapsody assortment

Variety of restricted sequence: 6
Complete episodes: 12

The Rhapsody assortment is made up of six separate reveals consisting of two episodes every: Korean Fried Rooster Rhapsody, Soju Rhapsody, Jjajangmyeon Rhapsody, Korean Pork Stomach Rhapsody, Hanwoo Rhapsody, and Korean Chilly Noodle Rhapsody. Host Paik Jong-won, cooks, and different specialists delve into the historical past and cultural significance of every sort of meals on this superbly filmed instructional sequence.
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Korea No. 1 (2022)

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
Common Members: Yoo Jae Suk, Lee kwang Soo, Kim Yeon Koung

Whereas Korea No. 1 covers varied conventional arts, 4 of the episodes particularly give attention to strategies of meals preparation or harvesting. Host Yoo Jae-suk (Busted), actor Lee Kwang-soo (The Sound of Your Coronary heart), and volleyball participant/Kwang-soo doppelganger Kim Yeon-koung study from grasp craftspeople and compete in opposition to each other to see who’s one of the best scholar. In Episode 2, they study the artwork of creating Jang (fermented sauces). Episode 3 finds them trying to find octopus in a mudflat. in Episode 5, they use use a 600-year-old methodology to reap anchovies. They struggle their palms at conventional makgeolli-brewing in Episode 7. Their pleasant rivalry makes this hands-on historical past lesson a pleasure to look at.
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