Tastefully Yours: The Jeonju-Set K-Drama Where a Spoiled Heir Learns to Cook

Here is the setup that makes Tastefully Yours (당신의 맛) more fun than its rom-com packaging suggests: the male lead runs a fine-dining restaurant and genuinely does not care how the food tastes. Han Beom-woo is an heir at Korea’s biggest food conglomerate, and his actual job is buying up small, beloved eateries and stripping them for their recipes. He is a corporate raider with a tasting menu. Then he wanders into a one-table, unmarked restaurant in Jeonju run by a chef who cooks like every plate is a personal argument, and the whole transactional view of food he has been coasting on starts to fall apart.

The premise

Beom-woo, played by Kang Ha-neul, is the kind of polished, dismissive executive who treats people and dishes as line items. His employer sends him out as a “recipe hunter,” which is exactly as cynical as it sounds. The chef who throws him is Mo Yeon-joo, a stubborn cook quietly running a tiny restaurant with a single table, no sign out front, and no interest in scaling up or selling out.

What follows is a slow thaw rather than a meet-cute. The two end up running a small restaurant together, and the show spends its ten episodes on the friction between a man who has never had to mean anything and a woman who means everything she makes. It is a food drama, so yes, there is a lot of cooking shot lovingly, but the better material is in watching Beom-woo realize that taste is not something you can acquire on a balance sheet.

Where to watch

Tastefully Yours aired in Korea in 2025 on ENA, with streaming on Genie TV, and a Netflix simulcast for international viewers.

• Netflix — available in select regions internationally; check whether it is licensed in your country, since availability varies.
• ENA / Genie TV (지니TV) — the original Korean broadcast and streaming home.

It ran for 10 episodes (roughly hour-long, give or take), airing Mondays and Tuesdays from mid-May through early June 2025. It is a complete, single-season story, so you are not signing up for a cliffhanger that never resolves.

The cast

Kang Ha-neul plays Han Beom-woo, the arrogant heir, and he is well cast for it — he has the charm to keep an unlikeable character watchable while the role slowly sands the smugness off. Opposite him, Go Min-si is Mo Yeon-joo, the Jeonju chef whose flat refusal to be impressed is the engine of the early episodes. Their dynamic carries the show; if you are not buying these two, nothing else matters, and they make it work.

Around them, Kim Shin-rok plays Jin Myeong-sook and Yoo Su-bin plays Shin Chun-seung. Behind the camera, the project comes from creator-showrunner Han Joon-hee — the name behind D.P. and Weak Hero — with Park Dan-hee directing and Jung Soo-yoon writing, produced by Shortcake. That pedigree is part of why the tone stays grounded instead of tipping into farce.

Filming locations

The real star of the backdrop is Jeonju, in North Jeolla Province — a city already famous to Korean food lovers, and reportedly where the large majority of the series was shot. If you have been to the Jeonju Hanok Village, the tiled rooftops and narrow lanes in the show will look immediately familiar; it is the primary setting and the natural choice for a drama built around regional cooking.

The well-documented anchor points are the hanok village itself and Jeonju Nambu Market in Wansan-gu, the kind of traditional market that fits a story about food made by hand. Some travel and fan guides also point to specific cafes and addresses tied to particular scenes; treat those as reported-but-unconfirmed rather than official, since they trace back to fan-compiled location lists. For the Seoul side of the story — the glossy food-company offices and fine-dining scenes — production used Seoul locations as the corporate counterweight to Jeonju’s warmth.

Worth your time?

This one is for viewers who like their romance low on melodrama and high on character, and who enjoy a food drama where the cooking actually means something to the plot rather than being set dressing. It is compact, it is pretty, and it gives Kang Ha-neul a genuinely satisfying arc from insufferable to human. If Jeonju’s hanok streets and a stubborn chef’s tiny restaurant sound like a good way to spend ten episodes, this is an easy recommendation — and a good gateway into Korea’s deep bench of food-centered dramas if you want more after.