{"id":52119,"date":"2026-05-13T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52119"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:53:36","slug":"hbo-max-k-drama-the-legend-of-kitchen-soldier-park-ji-hoon-leads-winning-military-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52119","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max K-drama The Legend of Kitchen Soldier: Park Ji-hoon leads winning military comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/13\/2bb9504d-eef1-49cb-9036-2dc115291b34_72d0aac1.jpg?itok=nkEnzdzy&amp;v=1778661527\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Lead cast:<\/strong> Park Ji-hoon, Han Dong-hee, Lee Sang-yi<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Latest Nielsen rating:<\/strong> 6.25 per cent<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Fresh from the record-breaking success of the period drama <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The King\u2019s Warden<\/em><\/span>, which has become the second-most-successful Korean film of all time, Park Ji-hoon looks to have another hit on his hands with the food-themed military comedy <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Legend of Kitchen Soldier<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Based on the Naver webtoon <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Kitchen Soldier<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-drama\/article\/3353416\/hbo-max-k-drama-legend-kitchen-soldier-park-ji-hoon-leads-winning-military-comedy?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead cast: Park Ji-hoon, Han Dong-hee, Lee Sang-yi Latest Nielsen rating: 6.25 per cent Fresh from the record-breaking success of the period drama The King\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2689,2441,18528,6545,5723,6095,1968,798,14883,1677,12934,3624],"class_list":["post-52119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-comedy","tag-hbo","tag-jihoon","tag-kdrama","tag-kitchen","tag-leads","tag-legend","tag-max","tag-military","tag-park","tag-soldier","tag-winning","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}