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Three Meals a Day
GenreVariety show
cooking show
reality show
Written byLee Woo-jung
Kim Dae-joo
Directed byNa Young-seok
Park Hee-yeon
Shin Hyo-jung
StarringLee Seo-jin
Ok Taecyeon
Kim Kwang-kyu (season 2)
Country of originSouth Korea
Original languageKorean
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes11 (season 1)
18 (season 2)
Production
Production locationsJeongseon, Gangwon Province
Running time70 minutes
Fridays at 21:50 KST (season 1)
Fridays at 21:45 KST (season 2)
Original release
NetworktvN
ReleaseOctober 17, 2014 (2014-10-17) –
September 11, 2015 (2015-09-11)

Three Meals a Day (Korean: 삼시세끼; RR: Samsi Sekki) is a South Korean reality cooking show. The first season aired on tvN from October 7 to December 26, 2014 on Friday nights at 21:50 for 11 episodes. The second season aired from May 15 to September 11, 2015 on Friday at 21:45 for 18 episodes.[1][2]

It features Lee Seo-jin and Ok Taecyeon as they live in a little rural village in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province three days a week and use whatever food they find there to create three meals a day, while various celebrities from Seoul make guest appearances for dinner.[3][4][5]

Cast

Production

Producer-director (or "PD") Na Young-seok previously directed the popular variety shows 2 Days & 1 Night, Grandpas Over Flowers, Sisters Over Flowers and Youth Over Flowers.

When actor Lee Seo-jin was on Grandpas Over Flowers, the crew gave him the nickname "Cooking King" due to his poor cooking skills. Their jokes about Lee starring in a fake cooking show titled Cooking King Seo-jinnie (a parody of King of Baking, Kim Takgu) eventually became the genesis for this show. Cast as his co-star was singer-actor Ok Taecyeon; the two had played brothers in the Korean drama series Wonderful Days.[6]

The press conference for the show was held on October 15, 2014 at the 63 City Convention Center in Yeouido, and was streamed live on tvN's YouTube channel.[7]

Kim Kwang-kyu, who had previously been a guest in the first season, became a regular cast member for the second season.[8] In addition to cooking three meals a day from scratch, Lee, Ok and Kim were given the additional task of growing and harvesting crops from spring to early fall (grocery shopping was strictly prohibited).[2][9]

Reception

Three Meals a Day drew a great response from Korean viewers and became a trending topic numerous times on Naver, a Korean search portal. It received viewership ratings of 6%, which is high for Korean cable television for which a 1% rating is considered a success.[10]

Originally 8 episodes were planned for the first season, but the show was extended by two episodes. A "director's cut" epilogue also aired, for a total of 11 episodes.[11]

List of episodes

Ratings

Highest ratings for the show are in red, lowest ratings are in blue.

Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village

A spin-off titled Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village starred Cha Seung-won, Yoo Hae-jin and Son Ho-jun (Son replaced Jang Keun-suk).[13][14] It aired from January 23 to March 20, 2015, and became similarly popular with Korean audiences.[15][16]

The second season aired from October 9 to December 11, 2015 on Friday at 21:45.

Location : Heuksando, Sinan County, Jeollanam-do

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2015 9th Cable TV Broadcasting Awards[17] Best Production in Creative Content Na Young-seok Won
51st Baeksang Arts Awards[18] Grand Prize (Television) Na Young-seok Won
Best Entertainment Program Three Meals a Day Nominated

References

  1. ^ Sung, So-young (February 28, 2015). "No new season for spinoff". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  2. ^ a b Kim, Jae-heun (May 15, 2015). "Three Meals a Day kicks off new season". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  3. ^ Yoon, Ji-soo (October 15, 2014). "tvN's new food variety show to launch Friday". K-pop Herald. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  4. ^ Sung, So-young (October 16, 2014). "After Grandpas, new show presents slice of rural life". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  5. ^ Baek, Byung-yeul (November 9, 2014). "Lights, camera, cook!". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  6. ^ Jeon, Su-mi (October 1, 2014). "Na PD Takes 2PM′s Taecyeon and Lee Seo Jin on a New Cooking Variety Show". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  7. ^ Hong, Grace Danbi (October 15, 2014). "2PM's Taecyeon Feels Confident Cooking Rice After Three Meals". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  8. ^ Lee, Ji-young (May 6, 2015). "Three Meals in Jeongseon to Start on May 15 with Kim Kwang Kyu Added to Cast". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  9. ^ Lee, Woo-young (May 14, 2015). "Farming challenge awaits Three Meals stars". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
  10. ^ "Three Meals a Day, Meokbang, and the Korean Food Trend". Seoulbeats. November 15, 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
  11. ^ Park, Ji-ryun (December 3, 2014). "Three Meals to Conclude Autumn with Lee Seung Gi as Last Guest". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  12. ^ a b c d AGB Nielsen Media Research Ratings Page Template:Ko icon
  13. ^ Jin, Eun-soo (January 13, 2015). "Three Meals a Day spawns spinoff". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  14. ^ Sung, So-young (January 17, 2015). "3 Meals spinoff postponed". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  15. ^ Sung, So-young (February 9, 2015). "3 Meals spinoff hits a record". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  16. ^ Jeong, A-ram (April 2, 2015). "Star producer Na Young-seok reveals secrets to his success". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  17. ^ "Cable TV Awards: Incomplete Life and producer Na Young-seok sweep awards". Hancinema. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  18. ^ Lee, Hoo-nam; Kim, Hyung-eun (28 May 2015). "Baeksang honors new, veteran stars". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
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