Premiere Watch: Recipe for Love
by stroopwafel
Time slot: Saturday & Sunday
Broadcaster: KBS
Genre: Family, rom-com, weekender
Episode count: 50
Global streamer: Kocowa+
Reasons to watch: Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Seoul where KBS lays our scene, Recipe for Love makes its weekend debut with Park Ki-woong and Jin Se-yeon as the main protagonists. Inspired by “Romeo and Juliet,” the weekender focuses on two feuding families who have been at odds for decades.
Park Ki-woong and Jin Se-yeon’s families were once happy neighbors…Until Park Ki-woong’s grandmother and Jin Se-yeon’s grandfather ran off together, leaving their spouses and children behind. Their affair has reverberated across generations, with their children becoming sworn enemies and the expectation that the youngest generation carry that same enmity. But the heart is a funny thing, and for our main lovebirds, family history doesn’t stand a chance in winning out over true love.
Recipe for Love is the first time Park Ki-woong and Jin Se-yeon have worked together since the 2009 drama, Gaksital. Unlike in their previous project, they have the opportunity to have a happy, fulfilling romance this time around with no furious, anguished cries of, “Gaksitaaaal!” Apart from the Gaksital reunion, the drama will focus on love in all its facets, from familial relationships to romantic ones, and how love can both harm and heal.
In addition to the new love between our leads; we’ll also get a look into the marriages of their respective parents (played by Kim Hyung-mook and So Yi-hyun with Kim Seung-soo and Yoo Ho-jung) and grandparents. Representing Gen Z and the sweetness of first love, we have Yoon Se-ah (as Park’s half-sister) and Kim Sun-bin (Jin’s younger brother).
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