Chocolate

초콜릿

Director: Lee Hyeong-Min

Writer: Lee Kyoung-Hee

Genre: Romance, food

Network: JTBC

Episodes: 16

Release Date: November 29, 2019 - January 18, 2020

Runtime: Friday & Saturday 23:00

Language: Korean

Country: South Korea

The story of a man who became a neurosurgeon though he dreamed of becoming a cook, and a woman who became a cook because of him. Lee Kang is a neurosurgeon, who once dreamed of becoming a chef. As a child, Moon Cha Young once met Lee Kang at a small restaurant in the seaside town. There, Lee Kang cooked and gave her a meal, which in part inspired her to become a world-famous chef. Many years later, the two meet again at a hospice ward and together they heal their own emotional scars by preparing meals for the patients there. (Source: KoreanDrama.org, dramalist, asianwiki, wikipedia)

Cast

• Yoon Kye-sang as Lee Kang
• Ha Ji-won as Moon Cha-yeong
• Jang Seung-jo as Lee Joon^[3]
• Teo Yoo as Kwon Min-seong
• Min Jin-woong as Moon Tae-hyun

Notes

1. "Chocolate" takes over the JTBC's Friday & Saturday 23:00 time slot previously occupied by "My Country: The New Age" and followed by "Itaewon Class" January 31, 2020.
2. Director Lee Hyeong-Min and screenwriter Lee Kyoung-Hee previously worked together on 2004 KBS2 drama series "Sorry, I Love You."
3. First still images for JTBC drama series “Chocolate.”
4. Two special posters for JTBC drama series “Chocolate.”
5. Singer-actress Yu Bin, formerly of the Wonder Girls, makes a cameo appearance from ep.11. Her character is O Jeong-Bok, who is the niece of Ha Dong-Gu (Jang Deok-Ju) in Wangdo. Yu Bin
    also sing's the 7th OST track "Special" for the drama series.