Pasta (Korean: 파스타 ) is a 2010 Korean television series starring Gong Hyo-jin, Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Hanee and Alex Chu. The workplace romantic comedy is about the dreams and struggles of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef.
Seo Yoo-kyung started her career as a kitch assistant at La Sfera restaurant for 3 years. Her dream is to become an Italian cuisine chef. She evtually works her way up to become a chef. One day, the La Sfera restaurant newly hires Choi Hyun-wook, a chef who wt 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 by Choi Hyun-wook. Evtually she's rehired permantly wh she wins a blind taste contest. The newly hired presidt, Kim San hires his frid 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 wh they were both studying at the Italian culinary school. But they broke up after Sae-young sabotaged 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-kyung 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 betwe them become fraught with complexities.
The culinary drama, which premiered in Korea on January 4, 2010, started off with ratings around 13 perct and wt on to breach the 20 perct mark. According to daily statistics released by research firms TNS Media Korea and AGB Niels Media Research, it recorded national viewership ratings of 21.5 and 21.2 perct, respectively, for its final episode.La Sfera, il ristorante italiano, has lost its way under the disorganized leadership of an imported Italian chef, so they give the boot to the ruddy-cheeked foreigner (thankfully sparing us from any more of his bad acting) and replace him with the next best thing, a Korean chef that has been formally trained in Italy—a finicky purist when it comes to Italian cuisine. Cue Lee SunGyun, who is witty and charming—when out of the kitchen. In it, he’s a raging tyrant. Gong HyoJin plays the diligent and well-liked aspiring chef in that kitchen. She’s just been promoted to pasta assistant after quietly suffering in the role of the maknae kitchen assistant for three long years. When this new chef comes barging in with his Italian creds and disrupts her quaint and comfortable universe, she’s both challenged and frightened (and fired).
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This universe also includes handsome Alex, who plays a genial and cucumber-cool businessman who enjoys eating at La Sfera, and especially enjoys baiting Gong HyoJin, and by baiting, of course, I mean quasi-flirting, even if she’s clueless to it.
Last, we haveHoney Leewho plays best friend to Alex and a celebrity chef (think Barefoot Contessa meets Rachel Ray) who isn’t fulfilled in her life or career despite her successes…it’s the absence of the right man that’s bringing her down. She’s still desperately in love with our leading man Lee SunGyun, despite their nasty breakup during their formative culinary training years in Italy…the bad news for her? Well, it seems neither of these two equally desirable men are interested her pasta anymore.
It’s a dueling war of wickedly handsome men—of the mature variety, not the just-out-of-puberty type.Now, there is nothing wrong with young and sweet dessert wines, but certainly never underestimate the value of a nicely aged one either. These two opposites strutted their stuff to convince you they werethe real deal and the one to make a pasta assistant (and you) swoon into a plate.
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On the one delicious hand, you had the dashing Prince Charming played by Alex (wonderfully, by the way), guaranteed to make any girl giggle in delight with one of his ‘I have a secret and I’m not telling you’ grins. On the other equivalently tasty hand, you had the gruff but charismatic Beast, minus all the fur, hair, and fang. Well, maybe a little fang, he did have a bit of a bite, this one. The Beast…er, the head chef, played by Lee SunGyun, technically got more screen time than Alex but both men sparkled like new stainless steel appliancesin their assigned roles and it was a tough decision as to who came off more palatable, if I may employ a foodie descriptive. The easy answerwould beAlex with his puppy dog smiles and all around twinkling demeanor, but the more complex appeal was definitely played by Lee SunGyun. Truthfully, I’d never cared for him or his character in Coffee Prince, but here, he was pretty darn sexy. Maybe jerks are just sexier in general? In a tv show context, of course. It gives them more room to grow. By the end, I didn’t even care how the whole thing ended as long as both Alex and Chef Lee SunGyun were happy.
The poster is a good representation of the drama: simple, classy and clearly visible. Clearly visible, you ask? What does that even mean? Well, it’s very bright and up front about who the characters were, in terms of personality, and what kind of developmentwas needed for each of them. The obvious comparisons can be made to Beethoven Virus (nasty genius coming in to shake things up, firing and hiring, firing and hiring) and The Grand Chef (preparation of haute cuisine, although Italian not French, nor upgraded Korean like in Grand), but after a couple of episodes it became very clear that Pasta was nothing like either of the shows I’ve just mentioned despite the passing similarities. It actually reminded me a lot of another show, but more on that later.Pasta wanted to staya romantic comedy until the very end andit succeeds in stayingrelatively angst-free and light-hearted without much of a plot, but as a mollifying incentive for those bothered by the zipless storyline, Pasta provided instead some very well-developed and intriguing characters.
After the initial episodes, I couldn’t decide if Lee SunGyun was charming or too slick and scathing for my liking. He definitely sided heavily toward the arsehole scale at first, especially his distaste for women in the kitchen. On the other hand, it was more than obvious something else going on here than a mere sexist desire to keep women in their place, which ironically, in this case was out of the kitchen. This man hadbeen burned and not just by olive oil.
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I will also note, Lee SunGyun and Gong HyoJin had one of the cutest first encounters I’d ever seen in a drama. One metaphor down, a million to go!
From the very start, you’d be hard pressed to find anything specifically wrong with this show, although you may be tempted to interpret your lack of excited hysteria for this drama as boredom which may lead to some quick channel switching (you know, the kind of hysteria you may feel for, say, a show like You’re Beautiful). For me, I encouraged myself to focus on the appealing characters—Gong HyoJin’s quiet determination, Lee SunGyun’s witty but explosive menace interjected with his characteristic crooked smile, Alex’s silky smoothness (man oh man was this guy dreamy in this role), Honey Lee’s courage in trying to undo a past mistake and win her man’s love back, and of course, the fun and frivolous staff that worked at La Sfera. This show really hooked me at around episode 3 and I couldn’t wait to enjoy all the people in it and see what happened when they started opening up and enjoying one another!
The story arc following three of the [most irritating] female chefs who werefired from La Sfera was a total bore, not only because they were whiny and tittering as all hell and deserved to be fired, but because the whole line of thought was pointless and interrupted the real action that was happening in the La Sfera kitchen. Every scene with them felt like intermission breaks to distract us during the setup of the next stage. Yawn.
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Coincidentally, also annoying was the former president of La Sfera, who I admit was necessary to create some conflict but I really wanted to shove a sock in his mouth every time he opened it.
Way too much delicious pasta eating instead…way too much! Honey Lee’s Triple-Taste Ravioli looked mighty deeelicious, as did all that seafood fare. I love seafood! And the idea of a Ginseng Pasta definitely got me curious...
Lee SunGyun recruited three capable underlings he’d mentored in Italy to join him in the disastrous kitchen and these darlings could create their own spin off—Boys Before Pasta anyone? The problem? We didn’t get enough of them! Too much time was wasted on the fired unnies and the sneaky, sniveling ex-president (see snoozer moments above). I would have preferred those precious minutes redistributed and doled out to incorporate more Idol Chef storylines! Check these
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I will also note, Lee SunGyun and Gong HyoJin had one of the cutest first encounters I’d ever seen in a drama. One metaphor down, a million to go!
From the very start, you’d be hard pressed to find anything specifically wrong with this show, although you may be tempted to interpret your lack of excited hysteria for this drama as boredom which may lead to some quick channel switching (you know, the kind of hysteria you may feel for, say, a show like You’re Beautiful). For me, I encouraged myself to focus on the appealing characters—Gong HyoJin’s quiet determination, Lee SunGyun’s witty but explosive menace interjected with his characteristic crooked smile, Alex’s silky smoothness (man oh man was this guy dreamy in this role), Honey Lee’s courage in trying to undo a past mistake and win her man’s love back, and of course, the fun and frivolous staff that worked at La Sfera. This show really hooked me at around episode 3 and I couldn’t wait to enjoy all the people in it and see what happened when they started opening up and enjoying one another!
The story arc following three of the [most irritating] female chefs who werefired from La Sfera was a total bore, not only because they were whiny and tittering as all hell and deserved to be fired, but because the whole line of thought was pointless and interrupted the real action that was happening in the La Sfera kitchen. Every scene with them felt like intermission breaks to distract us during the setup of the next stage. Yawn.
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Coincidentally, also annoying was the former president of La Sfera, who I admit was necessary to create some conflict but I really wanted to shove a sock in his mouth every time he opened it.
Way too much delicious pasta eating instead…way too much! Honey Lee’s Triple-Taste Ravioli looked mighty deeelicious, as did all that seafood fare. I love seafood! And the idea of a Ginseng Pasta definitely got me curious...
Lee SunGyun recruited three capable underlings he’d mentored in Italy to join him in the disastrous kitchen and these darlings could create their own spin off—Boys Before Pasta anyone? The problem? We didn’t get enough of them! Too much time was wasted on the fired unnies and the sneaky, sniveling ex-president (see snoozer moments above). I would have preferred those precious minutes redistributed and doled out to incorporate more Idol Chef storylines! Check these
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