nu2me wrote:
Source: straitstimes.com
3 Meals A Day - Jeongseon Village is a multi-purpose Korean variety series that, among many other things, means to sweep urbanites off their feet.
It packs celebrities and city bumpkins Lee Seo Jin, Ok Taec Yeon and Kim Kwang Kyu off to a picturesque farm, where urban fantasies about running away to the countryside collide, however, with niggling facts such as how city bumpkins know nothing about farming. Actually, Lee barely cooks, so it is sort of a hoot when the trio are tasked with building a brick oven, which Lee then uses to bake French bread.
The show is by Na Young Seok, producer of Grandpas Over Flowers, a series that has sent Lee across Europe and Asia, travelling as a servant to four elderly actors.
Like Grandpas Over Flowers, 3 Meals A Day poses a few gentle challenges to Korean convention, in particular, the sharp division of social roles according to age and gender.
Lee, 44, is proud that he can't cook. Ok, 26, is more open to the idea of cooking, but then he was brought up in the United States. Kim, 47, is rather useless.
All three are happy to defer to actress Park Shin Hye, 25, when she visits, bearing gifts of food from her family's restaurant, rolling up her sleeves and whipping up shabu- shabu.
It wouldn't happen back in the city, probably, but at an outdoor kitchen in the middle of nowhere, sure, she is the boss.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 08, 2015, with the headline 'K-drama princess and her Cinderfella Telemad'.
Thanks for posting this. Went to take a look at the newspaper and found the article. 3MAD is going to air on Singapore cable TV, hence the article.