66-year-old Lee Yeon-bok can't cook without shock health medication (table for four)
Apr 08, 2025
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Lee Yeon-bok of the Chinese Food University confessed his health problems for the first time.
The episode of Chef 'Lee Yeon-bok' was broadcast on Channel A 'Best Talk Documentary Table' which aired on the 7th. Chef Lee Yeon-bok of 53 years 'Chinese master' invited Kim Kang-woo, Heo Kyung-hwan, and Jang Ye-won to his playground and celebrity love room, Cooking Studio, to hold a table for four.
All three of them are acquaintances that Lee Yeon-bok cares about. Lee Yeon-bok introduced "Kim Kang-woo is a good friend who has been cooking hard for eight years, although I was worried about the actor coming in because he was so friendly." Kim Kang-woo commented on Lee Yeon-bok, saying, `He's like a neighbor who treats me comfortably without any formalities.'
Lee Yeon-bok said of Heo Kyung-hwan that they were together for 11 years, saying, `Like a licorice in a pharmacy, a friend who cannot be without it.' Heo Kyung-hwan expressed his intimacy by saying, `He's like a comfortable big brother who says I'm good at everything.'
Regarding Jang Ye-won, who was an announcer, Lee Yeon-bok said that "Yewon is energetic, bright, and an atmosphere maker when we get together." It is a nine-year relationship. Jang Ye-won said "I don't have a meeting with many people. It is almost the only precious gathering."
On this day, Lee Yeon-bok announced his retirement from the store. He said "The kitchen was completely left to his son"There has been a recent sign of abnormalities in the body. I suddenly became allergic to cooking smoke. I can't cook in a restaurant. However, food ingredient management and overall operation are involved. When cooking on the show, I take medicine and do it. My sneezing nose is so runny that I can't do it.'
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Heo Kyung-hwan is strict with his son in front of cooking. I've never seen him before, but for the first time, I saw him get very angry. It's limited to your son. It was a scene where if you do something wrong, you get cut out," he recalled. Lee Yeon-bok said, `At that time, I had to fold the eggplants to make food, but I was angry to see him finish it roughly. The food has to go out tomorrow, but they told me to finish it. In the end, he did it until dawn and completed it perfectly."
Lee Yeon-bok of the country recalled his childhood when he dropped out at 6th grade and started working as a delivery worker at the age of 13 because he couldn't pay elementary school fees to families in need. After that, he decided to cook after hearing that the chef made the best money, and he walked the path of a chef.
While working at the Taiwanese embassy, he had a medical check-up with the embassy who had entered Taiwan, and was recommended for sinusitis surgery, but lost his sense of smell. Lee Yeon-bok "I wondered if I should do something else because the chef couldn't smell it, but I didn't know too much. At that time, there was no truffle herb, but I don't know the scent of new food materials. Even now, when new ingredients come out of the cooking competition program, they can't use them all. I'm so curious about the new food materials."
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