One of the most-watched K-dramas of 2025 so far, Netflix’s Tastefully Yours stars Squid Game’s Kang Ha-neul as Han Beom-woo, a ruthless manager at his mother’s soulless food conglomerate, Hansang, whose entire life philosophy is challenged when he meets Mo Yeon-joo (The Frog’s Go Min-si), a brilliant but stubborn fine dining chef who runs a one-table restaurant in remote Jeonju.
When we meet Beom-woo, he is obsessed with building a restaurant that will get Hansang a coveted three-star rating in the fictional Diamant system. His mother, Han Yeo-ul (When Life Gives You Tangerines’ Oh Min-ae), has built Hansang by herself, prioritizing the company over her children. Now, she pits brothers Beom-woo and Han Seon-woo (Weak Hero Class 2’s Bae Na-ra) against one another in a race for the Diamant rating. Hoping to finally earn the love and approval she has withheld throughout their lives, they compete for the accomplishment.
Beom-woo’s aspirational path to three-star success is paved not by hard, honest work, but rather by deceit. His conman playbook involves buying independent restaurants, stealing their recipes to use for his flagship establishment Motto, and shutting them down. However, when he goes to Jeonju and meets Yeon-joo, something changes for him. Over the course of 10 episodes, Beom-woo and Yeon-joo fall in love and build a found family in Yeon-joo’s Jeonju restaurant with locals Jin Myeong-sook (Hellbound’s Kim Shin-rok) and Shin Chun-seung (Crash Landing on You’s Yoo Su-bin) as their co-workers. In the process, Beom-woo becomes a much better person, though the changes come with their fair share of drama.
Beom-woo’s downfall
When Beom-woo’s past as a Hansang executive who steals other restaurant’s recipes comes out at the end of Episode 8, the idyllic life he’s built starts to falls apart. Yeon-joo, Myeong-sook, and Chun-seung understandably feel betrayed, especially when it’s revealed that one of Yeon-joo’s recipes is being…
