Let’s Get a Little Bit Closer to HIGHLIGHT’s Doo-joon
Yoon Doo-joon, the leader of Highlight, is currently serving in the military, he will be discharged on April 10th next year. Doo-joon is a musician and an actor. Fun fact about him, Doo-joon’s actual dream was to be a PE (Physical Education) Teacher in Highschool, but he changed his mind after watching MTV Big Bang Documentary. He immediately felt that people of his age who sing and dance are awesome and he admired them.
One of Highlight’s (formerly known as Beast) famous songs is “Plz Don’t Be Sad” which was released in 2017. Doo-joon also played in a few dramas before enlisting in the military, such as, IRIS 2 (2013), Bring It on, Ghost (2016), Because This Is My First Life (2017), Radio Romance (2018), and many more but he always participated in the drama Let’s Eat since the first Let’s Eat drama (2013-2014) and then he played a role again in Let’s Eat 2 (2015) also the latest one which is Let’s Eat 3 (2018). Let’s check out more details about this drama on Byeol Korea!
‘Let’s Eat’ Not Only to Fill Our Stomache but also Our Heart!
Known as Shiksyareul Habshida in Korean, this drama has made the drama into three seasons. Let’s Eat is airing on tvN and the genre is romance and comedy. This drama has Doo-joon as the main male character, he plays the role of Gu Dae-young in this drama. This drama has a lot of eating scenes, so prepare your food before watching this, so you will not be drooling because of how yummy the food is!
The producer of this drama said, “The drama focuses on building relationships between strangers through having a meal and ultimately relieving their solitude. It portrays the process of how people improve relations via food.” With this drama, the producer, Park Joon-Hwa, wanted to show how people can bond through eating food together. Production Company of this drama is CJ E&M which is already known for making some great dramas, such as Reply 1998, He is Psychometric, Hotel Del Luna, and many more. The duration per episode is around 1 hour and every season contains between 14 and 18 episodes.
Let’s Eat – Story
Let’s Eat (2013)
This drama started airing from November 28th until March 13th for 16 episodes. Airing every Thursday 23:00 KST on tvN. This drama tells the story of 4 single people living on the same floor and bonding by eating food together. Lee Soo Kyung (Lee Soo-kyung), who is a 33-year-old woman, a divorcee after marrying way too early when she was in her 20s. She is a composed, confident woman who is happy to be living alone. But the only thing that can make her lose her cool composure is if she is near the gourmet foods. Living next door is another foodie, Goo Dae Young (Yoon Doo-joon), a single man who loves surrounding himself with gourmet food. He is an ace in describing the tastes of food. One thing he doesn’t like is being asked if he is dining alone at great restaurants. Other neighbors are Yoon Jin-yi (Yoon So-hee), a design student and former rich girl, and petty lawyer Kim Hak-moon (Shim Hyung-tak). When a strange murder occurs in their neighborhood, how will their lives be intertwined?
Main characters
Lee Soo-kyung as Lee Soo-kyung
Yoon Doo-joon as Goo Dae-young
Shim Hyung-tak as Kim Hak-moon
Yoon So-hee as Yoon Jin-yi
Recurring characters
Lee Do-yeon as Oh Do-yeon
Jang Won-young as Choi Kyu-sik
Jung Soo-young as Park Kyung-mi
Hong Eun-taek as Choi Deok-young
Oh Kwang-suk (Feeldog) as Hyun Kwang-suk
Choi Dae-sung as Laundromat boss
Jung Tae-sung as Hak-moon’s nephew
Check out the trailer below!
Let’s Eat 2 (2015)
Started airing on April 6th and continued to June 2nd, this drama has 2 episodes more than the previous season which is 18 episodes than can make you feel more satisfied. In season 2, Goo Dae-young (Yoon Doo-joon) becomes a slick insurance salesman and a food blogger. He moves back to his hometown, Sejong after a number of career setbacks in Seoul. He rents an apartment and apparently, his neighbor is Baek Soo-ji (Seo Hyun-jin) a freelance writer who was his old friend back when they were still elementary school students. Another main character here is an old lady who lives downstairs, Leon Jeom-yi (Kim Ji-young). This drama depicts the spicy and tasteful lives of the single dwellers in Sejong Villa, each of who has his own unique taste. This drama was aired twice a week, Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 KST.
Main characters
Yoon Doo-joon as Goo Dae-young
Seo Hyun-jin as Baek Soo-ji
Kwon Yul as Lee Sang-woo
Recurring characters
Kim Hee-won as Lim Taek-soo, Dae-young’s insurance colleague
Hwang Seok-jeong as Kim Mi-ran, Dae-young and Soo-ji’s landlady
Jo Eun-ji as Hong In-ah, Soo-ji and Sang-woo’s colleague
Hwang Seung-eon as Hwang Hye-rim, a part-timer and beauty blogger
Kim Ji-young as Lee Jum-yi, Dae-young and Soo-ji’s first-floor neighbor
Lee Joo-seung as Lee Joo-seung / Ahn Chan-soo, Dae-young and Soo-ji’s rooftop neighbor
Kim Dan-yool as Park Joo-wan, Mi-ran’s son
Sneak Peak of Let’s Eat 2!
