8.6 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Na Young-seok Original language(s) Korean Program creator CJ E&M | 8.5/10 IMDb Country of origin South Korea First episode date 17 October 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Also known as Three Meals
Samsi Meals Written by Lee Woo-jung
Kim Dae-joo Starring Lee Seo-jin
Eric Mun
Yoon Kyun-sang Spin-off Three Meals A Day: Fishing Village Awards PaekSang Arts Award Grand Prize in Television Nominations PaekSang Arts Award for Best TV Entertainment Program Genres Variety show, Cooking show, Reality television Similar Three Meals A Day: Fishi, Grandpas Over Flowers, New Journey to the West, Infinite Challenge, Guardian: The Lonely and Great Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three Meals a Day (Hangul: 삼시세끼; RR: Samsi Sekki) is a South Korean reality cooking show. It aired on Friday nights on tvN starting October 17, 2014.
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The cast live in a little rural or fishing village three days a week and use whatever food they find there to create three meals a day, while various celebrities from Seoul make guest appearances for dinner.
Production
Producer-director (or "PD") Na Young-seok previously directed the popular variety shows 2 Days & 1 Night, Grandpas Over Flowers, Sisters Over Flowers and Youth Over Flowers.
When actor Lee Seo-jin was on Grandpas Over Flowers, the crew gave him the nickname "Cooking King" due to his poor cooking skills. Their jokes about Lee starring in a fake cooking show titled Cooking King Seo-jinnie (a parody of King of Baking, Kim Takgu) eventually became the genesis for this show. Cast as his co-star was singer-actor Ok Taecyeon; the two had played brothers in the Korean drama series Wonderful Days.
The press conference for the show was held on October 15, 2014 at the 63 City Convention Center in Yeouido, and was streamed live on tvN's YouTube channel.
Kim Kwang-kyu, who had previously been a guest in the first season, became a regular cast member for the second season. In addition to cooking three meals a day from scratch, Lee, Ok and Kim were given the additional task of growing and harvesting crops from spring to early fall (grocery shopping was strictly prohibited).
On October 13th, 2016, a press conference was held for season three of the show. Consisting Lee Seo-jin, who was previously on the show, and new members Eric Mun and Yoon Kyun-sang. The new season is to set to take on a fishing village theme.
Reception
Three Meals a Day drew a great response from Korean viewers and became a trending topic numerous times on Naver, a Korean search portal. It received viewership ratings of 6%, which is high for Korean cable television for which a 1% rating is considered a success.
Originally 8 episodes were planned for the first season, but the show was extended by two episodes. A "director's cut" epilogue also aired, for a total of 11 episodes.
List of episodes, guests and ratings
In the tables below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.