Jinny's Kitchen
South Korean reality television show
- Season 1 (Bacalar, Mexico)
- Season 2 (Reykjavík, Iceland)[1]
present
- Youn's Kitchen
- Youn's Stay
- Jinny's Kitchen: Team Building
Jinny's Kitchen (also known as Seojin's or its full title Seojin's Korean Street Food ; Korean: 서진이네; Hanja: 瑞鎮家; RR: Seojin-ine) is a South Korean television reality show that premiered domestically on cable channel tvN and its platform streaming service TVING on February 24, 2023, and internationally on Prime Video.[2] The first season comprises eleven episodes. A second season is set to be aired on June 28, 2024.[3]
It is the second spin-off of Youn's Kitchen (2017) after Youn's Stay (2021), with the goal of forming a franchise.[4]
A two-episode spin-off special, named Jinny's Kitchen: Team Building (Korean: 출장소통의신 - 서진이네편; Hanja: 出差·沟通之神之瑞镇家篇; RR: Chuljang Sotongui Sin: Seo Jinine Pyeon), was later released on Amazon Prime.
Premise
The show is a spin-off of the television reality show Youn's Kitchen (2017), as Lee Seo Jin finally becomes a restaurant owner after working as a manager under Youn in the previous series. He opens Jinny's Kitchen in the small town of Bacalar, located in southeastern Mexico, to introduce Korean street food to customers.
In season 2, the cast flies to the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík, to serve warm and spicy Korean dishes. The store sign is thereby replaced by "Seojin Ttukbaegi".[5] Seo Jin change back his attitude and put the customer first before the revenue. Meanwhile, the head chef changes every day.[6]
Cast
| Name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1[7] | Season 2[8][9] | |
| Lee Seo Jin | Himself and the restaurant owner/CEO | Himself, the restaurant owner/CEO and head chef |
| Jung Yu Mi | Herself and executive director | Herself, managing director and head chef |
| Park Seo Joon | Himself, senior manager and the head of kitchen | Himself, director and the head of kitchen |
| Choi Woo Shik | Himself and an intern | Himself, assistant manager and head chef |
| Kim Tae Hyung / V of BTS | Himself and the new intern | — |
| Go Min Si | — | Herself, the new intern and head chef |
Episodes
Season 1
| No. overall | No. in season | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | February 24, 2023 (2023-02-24) | |
| In Seoul, the stars of the show—except V of BTS, who has other schedules—all gather to speak about the new program. Na PD announces his intent to extend the Youn's Kitchen franchise and introduces the new roles to the cast. Old Youn's Kitchen cast Lee Seo Jin, Jung Yu Mi and Park Seo Joon are promoted to executives while Woo Shik stays an intern since he'll work for the first time in a restaurant. Because of his career, Woo Shik will also join the team in Mexico 2 days after. The main theme for this season is "snack bar", food that is usually sold in Korean streets, which concerns the new boss. Less than two weeks before opening, the executives meet with chef Lee Won-il to develop the menu and receive lessons in the kitchen. One week later, it's the interns turn to learn, before they fly to Mexico to discover the restaurant and the city the next week. As they test their receipes, do grocery shopping and get the preparations ready, they notice that it takes more time than they expect. They also determine the menu and set the price with the production staff. After an hour of waiting, they get their first customers. Menu:
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| 2 | 2 | March 3, 2023 (2023-03-03) | |
| The freshly opened Jinny's Kitchen instantly becomes one of the most popular restaurants in Bacalar. Intern Tae Hyung is now in charge on cooking the rice. So to always gain more, new items are added to the menu. On day 2, Woo Shik is back from Atlanta and is immediately thrown in the job. The cast also makes friend with a stray dog they nicknamed Seo Jin. Additional items:
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| 3 | 3 | March 10, 2023 (2023-03-10) | |
| They end day two busily, but it still isn't satisfying enough for the owner Lee Seo Jin. The cast think of a way to increase revenue while matching cultural Korean tradition and create "Jinny's combo". Plus, they add an extra spicy dish to the menu with Mexican tastes in mind. While the amount of tasks of interns Tae Hyung and Wooshik keeps increasing, they start to feel very tired. The stray dog is renammed Perro (dog in spanish). Additional items:
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| 4 | 4 | March 17, 2023 (2023-03-17) | |
| After their last three busy days and reaching Seo Jin's goal of 10,000 pesos, the boss gives a well-deserved day off to the team. The team spends time in their villa and on the lake, but when they reopen on Tuesday, they experience an empty restaurant for the first time with empty streets. To attract new customers they start to distribute brochures. Additional items:
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| 5 | 5 | March 24, 2023 (2023-03-24) | |
| As the night comes, Seo Jin decide to close early. They try a new dish with rice to follow various customers asks. The cast also discuss new strategies and goals. They discover that stores are closed on Wednesday and hope this will help us attract new customers. The next day, the employees confront Seo Jin on how he changed since becoming the boss. Assistants are in charge of grocery shopping alone and Seo Jin gives a bilan on his employees. Additional items:
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| 6 | 6 | March 31, 2023 (2023-03-31) | |
| Since regular and new customers keep coming, they are quickly fully booked, forced to find extra chairs and the 10,000 goal is unexpectedly reached a second time. Yu Mi show again her meticulous side by helping in the back kitchen when needed. Tired Seo Jun wants to go home. On Day-6, Tae Hyung assist the head chef and Woo Shik tries harder in the service. Additional items:
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| 7 | 7 | April 7, 2023 (2023-04-07) | |
| The team keeps on dealing with heavy amount of customers. From the first half of the day, they already reach 6,000 pesos mark, leading them to make even better profit. Seeing his employees exhausted, Seo Jin suggest a morning off. To add more rice dishes, they decide to remove the Tteokbokki and the combos menus. Yu Mi offers to be in charge of these new dishes since only two days are left. While the team go jet skiing, Seo Jin go grocery shopping alone. Meanwhile, customers are already waiting in front of the restaurant. Additional items:
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Production
Casting
The original cast of Youn's Stay, minus Youn Yuh-jung, who chose to focus on other projects, returned for Jinny's Kitchen. Lee Seo Jin is promoted as restaurant owner in the show while Jung Yu Mi becomes the executive. This new promotion is considered as key to the new season as the new owner's philosophy is all about revenue.[10] Youn's Stay cast member Choi Woo Shik and Park Seo Joon also joined the cast.[7]
Singer V of BTS, who is also known in the entertainment industry as part of a group of friends-with actors Park Seo Joon, Choi Woo Shik, Park Hyung-sik and rapper Peakboy-called the "Wooga Squad".[11]
On February 20, 2024, SPOTV News revealed that the actress Go Min Si was offered to replaced BTS V in the new season, absent due to mandatory military service. Yet, they also add that CJ ENM official declined to confirm it.[12] On March 18, Go Min Si is spotted filming with the rest of the cast.[8]
Filming
While the tv show was filmed in Bacalar in Mexico, the special episode "Jinny's Kitchen Director's Cut with Na PD" took place in Itaewon-dong, Seoul in South Korea. The special episode reunites cast members to recall and talk about the memorable moments of the show and was filmed around May, about two months after the pre-recording of the press conference for Jinny's Kitchen.[13] It was aired as the eleventh episode.
Pero, the stray dog that suddenly came to the restaurant during the filming of the show, has been adopted by one of the crew members living in Mexico, after paying for vaccinations and treatment for his sore leg.[14]
On February 15, 2024, TvN informs through various medias that a second season is in the process. However, the filming location is kept secret like season 1 for safety and filming reasons, as well as the cast members.[15][16] On the same day, according to SPOTV News, it is announced that the cast is scheduled to leave for Iceland in mid-March and begin filming Season 2.[1] The filming started on March 18 in Reykjavík, Iceland, confirming the presence of Go Min Si and that the filming was not affected by the ongoing series of volcanic eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula.[8] Season 2 is set to be broadcast on June 28, 2024[3] with a goal to attract viewers before the Paris Summer Olympics.[5]
Promotion
In early February, the cast featured in a special episode of The Game Caterers, Na Young Seok PD's Youtube variety show to promote Jinny's Kitchen. In April 2023, Kim Tae Hyung group's BTS channel shared part of the Jinny's Kitchen Press Conference and of Tae Hyung's appearance in the Game Caterers.[17]
In a video posted on NA PD's Youtube channel, Tae Hyung advices Go-min to be fast in her tasks and be ready for when he comes back from his military service.[18]
Reception
Critical response
On March 26, 2023, Jinny's Kitchen ranked 15th in the "Most Watched TV Shows" category on Amazon Prime Video worldwide. It also entered the top 10 in 12 countries and regions, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia.[19] It remained the most watched tv show for the first half of 2023 on TVING, the original channel streaming platform, according to India Today.[20]
The BBC cited Jinny's Kitchen while predicting Korean reality shows as "the next Korean cultural trend".[21]
Ratings
- In the tables below, blue marks the lowest ratings in each season and red marks the highest ratings.
- This show airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC & EBS).
Season 1
| Ep. | Broadcast date | AGB Nielsen[22] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Metropolitan | ||
| 1 | February 24, 2023 | 8.792% | 10.338% |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 | 9.347% | 11.120% |
| 3 | March 10, 2023 | 8.390% | 9.390% |
| 4 | March 17, 2023 | 8.578% | 9.852% |
| 5 | March 24, 2023 | 7.598% | 8.649% |
| 6 | March 31, 2023 | 8.924% | 10.839% |
| 7 | April 7, 2023 | 8.097% | 8.893% |
| 8 | April 14, 2023 | 8.666% | 9.952% |
| 9 | April 21, 2023 | 8.402% | 9.913% |
| 10 | April 28, 2023 | 7.898% | 9.562% |
| 11 | May 5, 2023 | 6.777% | 7.763% |
| Average | 8.315% | 9.661% | |
Jinny's Kitchen: Team Building
| Ep. | Broadcast date | AGB Nielsen[22] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Metropolitan | ||
| 1 | October 12, 2023 | 3.797% | 4.045% |
| 2 | October 19, 2023 | 3.660% | 3.585% |
| Average | 3.729% | 3.815% | |
Note : While season 1 episodes were all 1st place in the TOP10 cable programming in terms of ratings, Team Building episodes dropped to 2nd place.[22]
Spin-off
The same cast returned for a two-episode special titled Jinny's Kitchen: Team Building (also known as Visiting God of Communication: Jinny's Kitchen[23][24]). The episodes premiered on TvN in Korea on October 12 and 19, 2023, respectively,[25] and on Amazon Prime internationally on November 12.[26][27] Following an anonymous complaint, Producer Nah, the God of Communication, organizes a retreat to improve teamwork and communication through various games. The first episode consists of a competition between the executives and interns, while in the second episode both sides play as a unified team.
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- ^ Revealed by Na Young-seok in the first episode of the show.
- ^ a b [단독]나영석표 '식당 예능' 컴백..'서진이네2' 6월 마침내 오픈 [종합] [[Exclusive] Na PD's Restaurant Entertainment comeback... Jinny's Kitchen 2 finally opens in June]. Star News (in Korean). May 8, 2024.
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- ^ Yoo, Ji-hye (March 27, 2023). "'Seojin', the first Korean entertainment show to be released on Amazon ('서진이네', 韓예능 최초 아마존 공개)". Naver News. (in Korean)
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- ^ "Jinny's Kitchen spin-off teaser: BTS' V, Park Seo-joon, Choi Woo-shik, Jung Yu-mi act goofy, Lee Seo-jin questions them". Hindustan Times. September 27, 2023.
- ^ "BTS' V To Star In 'Jinny's Kitchen' Spinoff: Plot, Release Date & Where To Watch". IBT. September 28, 2023. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
- ^ Kang, Min Kyung (September 27, 2023). 돌아온 인턴 최우식·방탄소년단 뷔…'서진이네' 스핀오프, 10월 12일 첫방 [Return of intern Choi Woo-sik and BTS V... Jinny's Kitchen's spin-off first broadcast on October 12th]. 10Asia (in Korean) – via Naver.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Unscripted Korean Variety Show Jinny's Kitchen: Team Building Coming Exclusively to Prime Video". Amazon Prime. November 1, 2023.
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