Kdrama 2018

Wok of Love (Kdrama Review & Summary)

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• Genre:  Romance, Business, Comedy, Food
• Date Released: May 2018
• Origin: South Korea
• KDrama: 40 episodes

Cast:

• Lee Jun-ho as Seo Poong
• Jang Hyuk as Doo Chil-sung
• Jung Ryeo-won as Dan Sae-woo

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Episode 1 & 2

The three leads all met up in a salon.

Seo Poong and Dan Sae-Woo were getting married but not to each other.

Doo Chil-sung was having a hair-cut.  He wanted a number two, a very close to the scalp.  But Dan Sae-woo said that she would not recommend it.  It would make him look like a thug, a gangster.  He looked at her and fell in love at first sight.

The characters are introduced gradually.

Seo Poong is a popular chef in a Michelin rated restaurant.  He just married a long-time girlfriend, who is a doctor, who was sleeping with her patient, who happens to be a chaebol, and the new president of the hotel Seo Poong was working at as a chef.

Doo Chil Sung is an ex-gangster with a heart of gold.  He has a posse of ex-gang members, who he had been trying to re-educate to better themselves and perhaps would lead for each of them to find a good job, good relationship, get married and start a family.  But at the moment, Doo Chil Sung is failing with this plan.

Dan Sae-woo is an easy-going heiress.  She just registering her marriage before the actual ceremony.

Episode 3-4

This is a month later.

Seo Poong found out about his wife’s affair with the hotel’s president.

He did not only lost his wife, he lost his job as well.

Dan Sae-woo was waiting for her wedding ceremony to start when her ‘husband’ run away and her father was arrested for fraud.  Bad luck comes in three.  The third is that she had been diagnosed with a terminal cancer. 🙁

With the sad, almost hopeless, current situation Seo Poong and Sae-woo had found themselves in, Doo Chil Sung was there to support them.

At first I had to admit that I found this drama rather weird.  It was like watching a Bugs Buddy cartoon comes to life.

But these later episodes were really interesting.  From Bugs Bunny to Twin Peaks.

The cast are adorable especially the very versatile Jang Hyuk.  I find him a very unaffected actor.  A people’s actor.  He seems like a very lovely person. Not too self-aware, no airs. And willing to support younger actors.

It seems that Jang Hyuk may be the second lead in this drama in the sense that he won’t get the girl.  It would really be nice if he does get the girl as there was chemistry between him and Ryeo Won.

Yep this drama is one to watch for 2018.

Episodes 5-6

The good news is that Sae Woo does not have terminal cancer; the bad news is that her horse has the terminal cancer.

She had to borrow $10,000 from the Light and Shadow Loans,  which is owned by Chil Sung.

This early on, she confessed to her father she was visiting in prison that she met two nice men: a chef who gave a fortune cookie and Mr Light who lent her money.  Her father asked her who was the nicer, and she said the chef.  But her father said that it sounds like Mr Light was the nicer guy.  She then agreed that he may be right.  But we know who her first choice was.

Poong’s first day in his new restaurant was chaotic.  The ex-gang members were ganging up on him.   They refused to do what he tells them, until it got embarrassing when they had to serve a soap tasting jajangmyeon to their first customers, who happened to be his ex-wife and her new lover.  The lover insulted him and his skills as a chef.

Poong had no other choice but to fire all the kitchen assistants and hire new ones.

Next episodes should be exciting as we meet new characters that would make up the kitchen

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