Chef of tyrant Lim Yoon-ah and Lee Chae-min, can we have a sweet and salty anti-communist romance
Jul 24, 2025
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In tvN's new Saturday-Sunday drama "The Tyrant's Chef" (written by fGRD, directed by Jang Tae-yu), which will premiere at 9:10 p.m. on August 23, the teaser video for Carl & Carl was released, heralding a thrilling meeting between Chef Yeon Ji-young (Im Yoon-ah) and tyrant Lee Hun (Lee Chae-min).
"The Tyrant's Chef" is a survival fantasy romantic comedy drama about a time-slip chef who meets the king, the worst tyrant and the owner of an absolute taste. Lim Yoon-ah and Lee Chae-min will play the role of chef Yeon Ji-young and Yeon Hee-gun Lee Heon, respectively, to show delicious chemistry.
In the meantime, the intense contrast between Yeon Ji-young in a white chef's suit and Lee Hun in a red Gonryongpo attracts attention in the teaser video released. Chef Yeon Ji-young, who entertains people with delicious food, holds an esophagus, and tyrant Lee Heon, who controls his life and scares people, wears a long sword. The images of the two people living with different swords in their respective times catch the eye at once.
Yeon Ji-young and Lee Heon, who make people's hearts pound every time they wield a blade, stimulate countless imaginations about what it would be like to meet them in one place. As the sharp energy is felt in the eyes of Yeon Ji-young and Lee Heon looking at each other, attention is focused on the story of the two who will face each other in one space beyond generations.
In this way, Chef of the Tyrant ' is a fresh fun by depicting the process of feeling the salty and sweet taste of life by Yeon Ji-young and Lee Heon, the chefs who hold knives with different meanings. Questions are mounting over what kind of dish Chef Yeon Ji-young, who has to satisfy the taste of tyrant and absolute gourmet Lee Hun to survive, will surprise the world with.
tvN's new Saturday drama 『The Tyrant's Chef" will premiere at 9:10 p.m. on August 23rd, when chef Lim Yoon-ah and tyrant Lee Chae-min's sweet and salty sword dance will begin.
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