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Please add a page for Jeong Kwan's newest cookery show, now on Netflix, 'The Philosopher's Kitchen' (2026). Fans of hers from 'Culinary Class Wars 2' should enjoy this. (Please also add CCW2 to this page.)

This was the missing piece which had eluded me. Thank you!

But Si Yeol's "fate" would only come to pass if his fate were altered. My brain is melting!

Thank you! This has been bothering me, too. Nine years before the wish the gumiho said Si Yeol was fated to poverty and U Seok was fated to success. She declined to mention at that time which one of them was fated to die from an aortic cardiac infarction.

This line by the deity confuses me greatly. Because the men's fates switched more than once.

Originally, U Seok had the brighter future and Si Yeol was fated to poverty. It wasn't until after the gumiho kicked the soccer ball (auto collision, nine years prior to the wish) which caused the initial swap in their fates, placing Si Yeol on the trajectory towards success.

So had the gumiho never intervened at all, would Se Yeol live in poverty, unable to pay his soccer fees, and still die young of a heart attack?

What exactly is the ploy with the old currency? I'm thinking that the money is no good, but why does O Deok Gyu believe it can still be exchanged for new currency at face value? (I get the part where they're using the laundered money to purchase shares of Hanmin. But why did they decide to exchange their checks for old currency in the first place?

Can someone please explain for those of us in the back row…

I can enjoy a slow burn, but I'm less invested when it seems like there is a different plot for the first 10 and major shifts for the back half—something I'd rather experience across two seasons. I can't say whether this drama fits that description. And I did enjoy the first two. It'll be in my dropped list forever, taunting me to come back & resume.

I think it is a very human response—not ideal, but understandable. Also, it was his original fate to be the successful one.

In my experience, loyalty in business at the employee level rarely—if ever—pays off. I've heard many more stories of people getting laid off then hired back (at a higher salary). More often, loyal employees are easily overlooked at promotion time—the higher ups consider promotions as enticements to retain talent; something loyal employees do not seem to require. The managers can take them for granted with minimal risk of losing talent.

That Hong Kong investor (friend of Jeong-u) is a spitting image of CEO Kang, albeit much younger. They share the same feral sociopathy.

I still do not see how Jeong-u is the ML and not Albert O..

21 episodes?! I wish I had noticed that before watching the first two. I'm gonna have to drop this. That is way too much investment. This show is from a decade ago, so I guess it's understandable. But I'm so glad modern dramas have culled the fat (no pun intended.) I think it's only China that continues to churn out Dramas which drag on that long. Soon, they'll get the memo, too.

My blood pressure

Dex and Da Hee made the rounds appearing together on variety shows promoting season 2. I found them to be an electric combination and presume the production agrees since they brought him on full-time. You can find their (totally hilarious) episodes (13 & 14) from Chef & My Fridge on Netflix.

https://kisskh.at/780006-please-take-care-of-my-refrigerator-season-2

Nice writeup. Alarm bells rang for me when Mina was snooping around Sung-Hun’s bed and found his quant book, which would lead an astute sleuth to deduce his career. He shouldn't have been allowed to bring revealing "pleasure reading" to the island.
Also, I don't see Go-Eun like a protein shake so much as a snack!

Netflix says next episode Feb 20. I think they hiatus! (Pun intended, sorry. It's how I deal with the long wait,)

Couch! Couch! Couch!

Good catch. This is such an anachronistic faux pas which takes the viewer out of the story. What the hell was writer-nim thinking?

Hopefully this one is actually written for 16-eps. There have been a few 14-eps stories packed into 16-eps seasons recently. Some people (not me) must enjoy having extra vibe episodes after the story is done.

I've rewatched Dex & Dahee's 2-part appearance on Chef & My Fridge three times, now. Even my family (who won't watch SI or typically watch anything that requires reading subtitles) got a real kick out of it. It's so fun & funny!