Black-and-white chef is still popular..No. 1 on a show that Koreans like the most
Oct 28, 2024
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On the 28th, Gallup Korea announced the ranking of Koreans' favorite broadcasts in October 2024.
The first place winner 'Black and White Chef' is a cooking survival program in which 80 unknown masters (aka 'Black spoon') who are proud of the best challenge 20 star chefs ('White spoon'), and compete fiercely only with taste. Jongwon Baek, the only Michelin three-star restaurant owner in Korea, Ahn Sung-jae, who has shown various food-related entertainment since he created a craze for "Cookbang" with "Mr. Baek, a home-cooked meal" (tvN) in 2015, appeared as a judge.
Kwon Sung-joon ('Napoli Matpia', who won the final match by beating white spoon Edward Lee (Lee Gyun), Kang Seung-won ('Triple Star'), Kim Mi-ryeong ('Imokase No. 1'), Yoon Nam-no ('Cooking Doll-Ai'), Jang Ho-joon, Jung Ji-sun, and Choi Hyun-seok (eight semi-finalists) drew extraordinary attention and revitalized the restaurant and distribution industry. From September 17th to October 8th, the entire series (episode 12) was released four times, and the production of season 2 was confirmed with the aim of releasing it in the second half of next year thanks to its huge popularity.
Black and White Cook is the first web entertainment to top a survey of preference programs that have expanded from traditional TV to broadcast videos, and the second No. 1 production of Netflix itself. Last year, several OTT programs, including "The Glory" (Netflix, No. 1 in March 2023) and "Moving" (Disney+, No. 1 in September 2023), were ranked in the top 10, but this year only one "Dropung" (Netflix, No. 5 in July).
▶The second place was won by tvN weekend drama 'Jungnyeon' about women's Gukgeuk.
It is a story in which natural sound genius 'Yoon Jeong-nyeon'(Kim Tae-ri) and hardworking group Su-jae 'Heo Young-seo'(Shin Ye-eun) grow up through competition and solidarity in the Maeran Guk Theater Company led by 'Kang So-bok'(Ramiran).
Through the scenes of stage performances in each play, it shows the splendid charm of women's Gukgeuk, which is not accessible to Xu now. In particular, the actors who are known to have prepared pansori, dance, and gukgeuk for one to three years to play the role of an all-round 藝 troupe stand out. OTT platform TVing also releases 'Full Version of the Korean Drama in the Late Age' including unreleased videos. It is based on the webtoon of the same name, which won the Bucheon Cartoon Awards this year.
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MBC's single-life entertainment show "I Live Alone" (3.4%) came in third place, Cha Seung-won and Yoo Hae-jin's tvN "Three Meals a Day Light" (3.2%) came in fourth, Park Shin-hye ('Gangbitna') and Kim Jae-young ('Handaon') came in fifth, SBS's Friday-Saturday drama "Judge from Hell" (2.8%) led by Chung Hyeon ('Seo Kang-ju') and Geum Sae-rok ('Lee Da-rim'), KBS2's weekend drama "The Iron Family" and SBS's longevity entertainment "Running Man" (2.7%) tied, KBS1's evening one-day drama "Let's Get Married!" (2.2%) starring Park Ha-na ('Meng Gong-hee') and Park Sang-nam ('Clubs'Clubs') is ranked 10th.
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In the top 20 are "SOLO" (ENA·SBS Plus), "My Ugly Baby" (SBS) (more than 1.7%, tied for 11th), "World Theme Trip" (EBS, 1.6%, 13th), Um Hyun-kyung ('Yong Soo-jung') and Seo Joon-young ('Yeo Ui-ju'), MBC evening drama "Yong Soo-jung, Yong Soo-jung", "I'm a Natural Person" (more than 1.5%, tied for 14th), Han Chae-young ('Moon Jeong-in') and Han Bo-reum ('Baek Seol-ah'), KBS2 evening one-.
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