Pasta (TV series)
| Pasta | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Seo Sook Hyang |
| Directed by | Kwan Seok Jang |
| Starring | Kong Hyo-jin Lee Sun Gyun Lee Ha-nui Alex No Min Woo Jang Yong |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Running time | Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55(Korean Time) |
| Original release | |
| Network |  MBC |
| Release | 2010-Jan-04 – 2010-March-09 |
Pasta is a South Korean TV series broadcast by MBC from January 2010 to March 2010.[1]
Synopsis
“Pasta” covers the dreams and success of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef at La Sfera restaurant.[2]
Seo Yoo Kyung started her career as a kitchen assistant at La Sfera restaurant for 3 years. Her dream is to become an Italian cuisine chef. She eventually works her way up to become a chef.
One day, the La Sfera restaurant newly hires Choi Hyun-wook, a chef who went to culinary school in Italy. Upon his arrival, the female chefs are fired one by one and Yoo-Kyung finds herself to be the last woman standing. She's fired several times but comes up with ways to be rehired. Eventually she's rehired permantly when she wins a blind taste contest. The newly hired president, Kim San hires his friend and celebrity chef Sae-young as a co-head chef to work with Hyun-wook. It turns out that Sae-young and Hyun-wook used to date each other when they were both studying at the Italian culinary school. But they broke up after Sae-young sabatoged his wine by boiling it to win a cooking contest. They turn into rivals and try to outdo each other in making the finest Italian cuisine. Working alongside two celebrity chefs, Yoo-gyeong feels small and insignificant. She gradually develops feelings for the charismatic Hyun-wook. However, restaurant owner Kim San begins to become attracted to the spunky Yoo-Kyung and the relationships between them become fraught with complexities.[3]
Starring
- Seo Yoo-Kyung, played by Kong Hyo-jin
- The daughter of a chinese restaurant owner whos mother died of cancer she dreams of becoming a celebrity chef as, she graduated from a lowly culinary school and works as a kitchen assistant. She has a spunky attitude and rises one level in the pecking order at the restaurant where she works but after a new head chef called Hyun-wook is hired, she is on the verge of losing her job. She barely hangs onto her job thanks to the restaurant manager who intervened on her behalf. But she has a long way to go until she will earn any respect from chef Hyun-wook for her cooking skills. She makes an effort to learn as much as she can from Hyun-wook and he, in turn, starts to grow fond of her. However, when Kim San, the restaurant owner of La Sfera, returns, her relationship between Hyun-wook and Kim San change abruptly.
- Choi Hyun-wook, played by Lee Sun Gyun
- A chef who rose to the top of his profession after starting at the bottom in an Italian restaurant in Sicily. Offered a hefty salary and housing from the La Sfera restaurant, he decides to become the head chef of the establishment. He detests female chefs after having a bad experience in the past and proclaims, "There will be no women in my kitchen". When his ex-girlfriend Sae-young joins him at the restaurant as co-head chef, he frequently quarrels with her and then makes up as they create wonderful cuisine for patrons.
- Oh Sae-young, played by Lee Ha-nui
- She's Yoo-gyeong's role model. Sae-young has her own cooking show and is the most celebrate female chef in Korea. During her years in Italy where she went to culinary school, she dated Hyun-wook and ruined his recipe to win a grand prix cooking contest. After returning to Korea, she instantly became a celebrity chef but when she's reunited with Hyun-wook, she has conflicted feelings towards him.
- Kim San, played by Alex
- He's the actual owner of the La Sfera restaurant but he hides this fact and poses as a regular restaurant patron for 3 years. One day, he takes a peek at Yoo-Kyung's notes and develops an interest in her. Nobody pays much attention to Yoo-Kyung, who is a kitchen assistant, but Kim San watches her closely. He helps Yoo-Kyung from behind the scenes unbeknownst to Yoo-Kyung.
References
External links
- Template:Ko The official site at MBC