By Korea Times
For three consecutive weeks between September 16 and October 6, Netflix’s cooking competition show Culinary Class Wars claimed the top spot in the non-English language series category, making it the longest-running Korean variety show in the rankings.
Netflix confirmed on October 15 that a second season is currently in production.
“They’ve lived completely different lives, and when they first met at a grilled intestine restaurant last winter, there was a strange tension in the air,” director Kim Eun-ji recalled during an interview in Seoul.
Casting Anh, a relatively young chef with no prior experience on cooking shows, was a gamble. Kim Hak-min, another director, recounted meeting Anh at his restaurant: “He confidently said, ‘If I’m judging, who would dare question my judgment?’ I thought, ‘Is he too overconfident?’ But then I realised, ‘This is the person’. We cast him on the spot.”
