22 titles, most popular first
In Joseon, at a time when women had little influence, the orphaned Jang-geum enters the royal kitchen as a young apprentice cook. Determined and hardworking, she sets out to master the secrets of Korean cooking and medicine, in a story inspired by a real woman of the era.
Na Bong-sun is a timid assistant chef with low self-esteem who can sometimes see ghosts. When she is possessed by Shin Soon-ae, the ghost of a young woman set on finding romance before she moves on, Bong-sun suddenly turns bold and confident, catching the eye of her arrogant star chef boss, Kang Sun-woo.
Kim Sam-soon is a loud, gifted pastry chef nearing thirty who hates her old-fashioned name. On Christmas Eve she is dumped by her cheating boyfriend and loses her job. Hyun Jin-heon, owner of a fancy French restaurant, hires her, and when she needs money to save her mother's house, he offers it if she will pose as his girlfriend.
Squad Chief Go's team of narcotics detectives keeps botching operations, and after a chase ends in a massive pileup, their jobs are on the line. To redeem themselves, they launch an undercover stakeout of an international drug gang, using a fried chicken restaurant as their cover.
Seo Yoo-kyung has spent years as a kitchen assistant at the Italian restaurant La Sfera, dreaming of becoming a real chef. When strict new head chef Choi Hyun-wook arrives from Italy and starts letting the women in the kitchen go, she becomes the last one left and must fight hard to keep her place.
Lee Jung-joo has worked hard all her life without catching a break, and after seven years at a Seoul clothing company she loses her job, her home and her boyfriend almost at once. Reluctantly starting over on Jeju Island, she meets Baek Gun-woo, a carefree, smooth-talking restaurant owner from a rich family whom she first takes for a con artist.
Yeon Ji-yeong is a modern French-cuisine chef who has just won a top prize in Paris. On her flight home to Seoul, a solar eclipse sends her back to the Joseon era. She lands in the court of King Lee Heon, a feared ruler with a refined palate, and must win him over with her cooking.
Yang Eun-bi, a student in her mid-twenties, is studying for the civil service exam so she can become a high school teacher. She runs into Cha Chi-soo, the arrogant heir to Korea's biggest food company, and likes him until she learns he is just a high school senior. Then she discovers her late father has left his ramen shop to a stranger, Choi Kang-hyuk.
After failing the national exam to become a teacher, Hye-won quits her part-time job in Seoul and heads back to the country village where she grew up. Her mother is no longer there, but as Hye-won cooks through the seasons, memories of how her mother made a home for her come back, and she reconnects with two childhood friends.
Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family that has run a noodle factory on the edge of Seoul for three generations. Married into the wealthy family behind Golden Dragon Food, she has endured years of hostility from a mother-in-law who never accepted her, and when her husband cheats, she decides to leave him.
A detective visits Song-hee, a chef in apartment 301, to ask about her neighbor Yoon-hee, a writer in apartment 302 who has gone missing. Through flashbacks, the film looks back at how the two women met after Song-hee moved in following her divorce, and how her constant cooking for her withdrawn neighbor shaped their strained bond.
Four single neighbors love living alone but share one problem: restaurants are not made for eating by yourself. Lee Soo-kyung, a happily divorced paralegal, Goo Dae-young, a mysterious food lover, and design student Yoon Jin-yi start eating out together and slowly become part of each other's lives, while a murder case shakes their neighborhood.
A man who once dreamed of being a cook grows up to become a neurosurgeon instead, while a woman takes up cooking because of him. Their story is drawn from the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul.
Two families run rival Chinese restaurants. Hyo-dong, whose father built their now-struggling restaurant through decades of hard work, meets the charming Hee-ae and Shin-ae, a poor but determined student, at a cooking class, and as he chases his dream of becoming a top chef, he falls for Hee-ae while the rivalry between the restaurants heats up.
Go Seung-ji is a gifted pastry chef whose prickly, cold exterior hides a kind and caring heart, much like a hedgehog. Pan Da-yang is a cheerful, easygoing café owner who takes life as calmly as a panda. The story centers on these two very different personalities.
Grieving his father, Kang Seong-jae enlists and is sent to a unit in Ganglim. Despite topping boot camp, he is put under special watch because he grew up poor with only one parent, and his food-truck experience with his mother gets him assigned to Yoon Dong-hyeon, a famously hopeless veteran cook. Then a strange virtual screen pops up, giving him a mission to feed the troops.
Jo Hee-ra is a witch who runs a restaurant where desperate people come hoping a special meal will make their wishes come true. But every wish has a price: in return, each customer must give up the thing they value most in their life.
Abandoned by her boyfriend after their baby is born, a desperate Lee Soo-jung gives her daughter up for adoption and moves to the United States, renaming herself Rena Jung. Twenty years later she returns to Korea as a glamorous celebrity chef willing to fake credentials and use people to get ahead. Her goal is a loveless match with Park Min-joon, the cold eldest son of TNC Group's chairman.
In this time-slip romantic comedy adapted from a web novel, Heo Gyun, who lives in the Joseon era, is suddenly thrown four centuries forward into the future, where he sets about opening a restaurant of his own.
Goo Dae-young is stuck in a rut now that he is in his thirties. To recover, he sets out to revisit the dishes he loved in his twenties, joined by his old college classmate Lee Ji-woo, and over shared meals the two look back on memories from their past.
Yeo Bong-soon grew up in the countryside and gets the chance to work as a chef at the Blue House, the presidential residence. People there first see her as naive and old-fashioned, including Nam Bong-ki, a lazy, self-centered presidential guard, while her heart already belongs to Jang Joon-won, a doctor she once saved on a mountain near her home.
Eun-jae is a proud, stubborn 20-year-old who loves cooking, so she leaves high school early and runs off to a cooking school in Vicenza, Italy, along with a devoted friend. There she meets Han Yi-joon, heir to a family hotel and restaurant business, who has come to find the mother who left him as a child.
