Netflix’s Korean Reality Series ‘Culinary Class Wars’ Set for Season 2

Netflix subscribers will quickly have the ability to stuff their faces with a second serving to of the favored cooking competitors sequence Culinary Class Wars. The streamer revealed Tuesday from Seoul that it has renewed the hit Korean present for a second season. 

Related in format to Netflix’s Korean actuality hit Bodily 100, Culinary Class Wars follows 100 elite cooks divided into two courses: white spoons (superstar cooks) and black spoons (non-celebrity cooks). The contestants then face off in a cooking event in hopes of profitable a prize of 300 million Korean received (about $230,000). They’re judged by two sharp-tongued native meals consultants: veteran restaurateur and superstar chef, Paik Jong-won, and the one Michelin three-star chef in Korea, Anh Sung-jae. 

Culinary Class Wars is a large hit each in Korea and amongst worldwide audiences. Launched simply final month, the present was Netflix’s first Korean unscripted title to take a seat atop its world top-ten record for non-English sequence for 3 consecutive weeks. 

Netflix says the important thing artistic staff behind the primary season’s success — producers Kim Hak-min and Kim Eun-ji, together with author Mo Eun-sol from Studio Slam — will return for the second season. 

“We’re extraordinarily grateful to our viewers. Due to them, we’re capable of come again for Season 2. We’ll do our greatest to return the love and fulfill expectations,” the trio mentioned in a joint assertion.  

Added Ki Hwan Yoo, Netflix’s director of content material in Korea: “Reveals of this scale take a whole lot of effort to carry to life, and we’re pleased with what we’ve completed with our devoted staff. As we proceed to increase our unscripted choices, we’re trying ahead to sharing much more distinctive and thrilling titles with you quickly.”

For the previous two years, Netflix has invested sizably within the Korean unscripted area, hoping to repeat its world success with Okay-drama within the actuality class. Netflix’s unscripted slate in 2024 grew to 10 titles — double the quantity it was producing in 2022. Starting in August, the corporate started releasing a brand new Korean actuality present each month. Upcoming releases embody the second season of the zombie selection present, Zombieverse: New Blood, adopted by the brand new sequence Rugged Rugby: Conquer or Die, showcasing the uniquely intense and gritty world of rugby in Korea. Early subsequent yr, Netflix’s first Okay-reality favourite, Single’s Inferno, will drop its anticipated fourth season.