
Lead cast: Park Ji-hoon, Han Dong-hee, Lee Sang-yi
Latest Nielsen rating: 6.25 per cent

Lead cast: Park Ji-hoon, Han Dong-hee, Lee Sang-yi
Latest Nielsen rating: 6.25 per cent
Based on the Naver webtoon Kitchen Soldier by J Robin, this thoroughly diverting series features Park as Kang Seong-jae, a new recruit in the army who is assigned to the seaside Gangrim barracks after completing boot camp.
Seong-jae aced basic training, but having recently lost his father and after exhibiting some peculiar behaviour, he is flagged as a cadet with potential mental health issues – and identified to fellow recruits with a patronising smiley-face pin on his uniform. Rather than send him into the field, his new superiors assign him to kitchen duty.
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