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Imagine you're a 21st-century professional who gets transported to the past. That's the central hook of Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, the tvN K-drama that started streaming on Netflix.
The show centers around Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah), a talented chef, who gets pulled back into a part of the country's history. She finds herself stuck in the era of the Joseon dynasty. It leads her on a culinary adventure where she tries to learn the conventions of this older world, including rivalries and palace politics, to make the most of this situation.
Besides Im Yoon-ah as Ji-yeong, the cast includes Lee Chae-min as King Yi Heon, Kang Han-na as his concubine Kang Mok-ju, and Choi Gwi-hwa as a Joseon family member, the Prince. According to LynnTop, the show was filmed in locations across South Korea, which include the Video Theme Parks from Busan and Hapcheon and Mungyeong Saejae Open Set, among others.
These filming locations allowed the showrunners to showcase culturally relevant details of architecture and surroundings, which must have helped in the show's time-travel storyline.
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty filming locations: Details explored
1. Busan and Hapcheon Video Theme Park
The former theme park, located in Buan-gun, Jeonbuk, includes historical construction that feels ideal to represent the country's past. The latter, located in Andong, Gyeongbuk, offered a large area to film the show's more demanding scenes.
2. Jonhyeongak Set
Located in Damyang-gun, Jeonnam, this set allowed the crew to film its kitchen scenes from a traditional palace and also the scenes that take place inside a palace.
3. Mungyeong Saejae Open Set
This set, dubbed the "Hollywood of Korea," is from Mungyeong, Gyeongbuk. Its space and architecture reportedly go in sync with the era the show is representing.
4. Obongsan Madangbawi Cliff and Gosanjeong Pavilion
Both are cliffside locations that arrive at a critical moment in the two leads' lives. It changes how they look at their lives and the world they inhabit.
5. Petite France Theme Park
Per LynnTop, this French cultural village from the Gyeonggi-do province helped with beautiful locations from Ji-young's present life.
More details about Bon Appétit, Your Majesty
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty is the kind of K-drama that deals with everything as historical fiction, fantasy, and romance in its own sweet style. It's a show about a young, ambitious woman who decides to use her cooking skills to make the most of her chops.
Per Netflix, its plot synopsis reads,
"After winning a French cooking competition, Yeon Ji-young time-travels through an old cookbook and clashes with King Yi Heon upon arrival. Held captive in harsh conditions, Ji-young prepares a feast to win her freedom — but even her talent can't save her when a crisis puts her life in peril."
Besides the aforementioned actors, the cast includes,
- Yoon Seo-ah as Seo Gil-geum
- Seo Yi-sook as Grand Queen Dowager Inju
- Oh Eui-Sik Im Song-jae
- Lee Joo-ahn Kong Gil
- Nam Kyung-eup Im Seo-hong
- Katie Anne Moy First Junior Consort Yang
- Victoria Grace Yeon Ji-yeong
- Jo Jae-yoon Tang Bai Long
You can watch all eight episodes of the first season on Netflix.
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