This store needs to go bust...The Jongwon Baek is completely angry. Why did you speak spitefully? (Les Misérables)

Dec 15, 2024




"Storytelling is fraudulent when it's not even the basics. This has to be ruined."

On the 14th, 'Jongwon Baek's Les Misérables', the team mission 'Making a Sea Table' where the first eliminated person occurred was held. The virtues of the merchant hidden by CEO Jongwon Baek in this mission were the importance of 'understanding of food ingredients' and 'storytelling' and teamwork with people working together. In the end, the first elimination among the 20 challengers occurred, and it was 'Teamwork' that determined their fate.

On this day, the representative of Jongwon Baek said "This time, it's real. The first eliminated person will come out," he said, revealing the team mission 'Making a Sea Table'. The 20 challengers introduced the menu to the five-member jury with the idea of teaming up the five grades (A, B, C, D, and F) divided according to the result of the mission 'Cutting Onion', making a table of their choice and selling it to customers. The team with the lowest F grade after the mission became the first eliminator and had to leave Studio 100.



As it was the first mission to be eliminated, the 20 challengers worked on the mission with a firm determination that they would survive. But the teamwork was different. Some teams respected and cared for each other from the beginning, and showed fantastic teamwork, while others had confrontations and conflicts while each of them had their own opinions. This was clearly divided not only in the cooking process, but also in the idea of 'storytelling', one of the real intentions hidden by Jongwon Baek's representatives in the mission.

Team A, which received favorable reviews in the previous mission, also showed the best teamwork in this team mission. 15 Yoo Ji-min (born and uncomfortable child) with experience in Japanese cuisine was in charge of support, and the mission was carried out smoothly overall. However, among the team members, 04 Yang Kyung-min (Eagles' pitcher), who has the shortest cooking experience, took on the most difficult fried food and suffered a crisis. The five-judge team clearly caught this part. Nevertheless, CEO Jongwon Baek gave a favorable comment to Team A, saying, `Exemplary answer.'



Team C also showed good teamwork centered on Lim Young-joon (a gangster father) with eight years of experience in Japanese cuisine. The team members followed Lim Young-joon's words well, who served as the leader, and expressed satisfaction, saying, `It's a godsend to be on the same team as Lim Young-joon.' However, due to their low understanding of the ingredients, they received harsh criticism from the five-member panel for choosing the wrong way of cooking. In the end, Team C finished the last mission with
 This store needs to go bust...The Jongwon Baek is completely angry. Why did you speak spitefully? (Les Misérables)
Likewise, he received a C grade and avoided elimination.

Team F, which received the worst evaluation earlier, showed 'Rebellion of the last place' Team F understood the hidden meaning of the mission and made the only sign and worked hard on storytelling. However, Team F was pointed out for its low understanding of ingredients. The five-member jury highly appreciated the fact that Team F worked hard on preparing its own pre-menu and showed strong teamwork. As a result, Team F, which went up three levels to Grade B, shed tears as they recalled their hardships.



On the other hand, Team B and Team D collapsed with the worst teamwork. In Team B, 13 Ha Jin-woo (a North Korean defector who abandoned his family) and 18 Oh Kang-tae showed sharp confrontation. How many times did the two run into each other during the practice, and finally "Do you want to do it separately?"It even caused a division of the team. Eventually, Team B, who cooked in two groups, also lacked preparation for storytelling, which was directly linked to the five-member jury's harsh criticism. Team B dropped one notch to grade C.

Team D led the team with 12 Cho Do-yeon (a victim of domestic violence). In the process, he was sharply opposed to 2009 Oh Chang-seok (alcoholism). Even when other team members went to keep an eye on them for a while, Cho Ji-yeon, who has a strong sense of responsibility, did not let go of practice until dawn. But the result was disastrous. 03 A whale roundworm comes out of mackerel trimmed by Jeon Dong-jin, and chef Yoon Nam-no pointed out that `I thought it was food waste.' In addition, he made a basic mistake of not removing the label of the pot containing the food he brought to the judging panel.

For Team D, which lacks taste, teamwork, understanding of ingredients, and storytelling in every way, the Jongwon Baek representative "Storytelling is fraudulent without being fundamental. This has to be ruined!" gushed vitriol. The chefs who tasted Team D's food even spit it out. In the end, Team D fell to the F grade, and all of them were eliminated. Since then, it has been predicted that they will be given a chance to revive the loser, and 12 Cho Do-yeon declared that they will give up the consolation match, causing curiosity.

The first elimination occurred as a result of the crazy team mission. What determined their fate was teamwork. It showed once again why 'Jongwon Baek's Les Misérables' is not an obvious cooking contest program, given that cooking skills are not simply the subject of evaluation. It also served as a business guide by informing the essential virtues of merchants, such as understanding food ingredients, teamwork, and storytelling.



Photo courtesy = ENA 'Les Miserables in Jongwon Baek'



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