Park Ji-hoon plays a chaotic young man who finds his calling in the army kitchen after a mysterious voice starts guiding his journey in the fantasy drama ‘Kitchen Soldier’
Park Ji-hoon. Photo: Netflix, courtesy of Han Cinema.
Park Ji-hoon is starring in the upcoming TVING series Kitchen Soldier, based on a popular webtoon of the same name. Park will play Kang Sung-jae, a 20-something man who is down on his luck and finds his calling in the unlikeliest of places—the army kitchen.
Helmed by director Jo Nam-hyung, the show is a fantasy comedy drama that follows Sung-jae’s journey from a new army recruit to a master chef. While he makes a good first impression, he soon struggles to find his place in this new environment. That’s when things get really interesting—he’s drawn to the military kitchen by a cryptic voice that only he can hear, and also discovers an extraordinary ability to see recipes like a game screen. As cooking slowly becomes his thing, Sung-jae rises through the ranks to become a culinary star in the Korean Armed Forces.
After his success in the intense action high school drama Weak Hero Class 2 and a cameo in the romantic comedy Tastefully Yours (2025), Park Ji-hoon returns with Kitchen Soldier. The South Korean actor and former Wanna One member is a household name, having starred in hit TV series like Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency (2019), Love Revolution (2020), At a Distance, Spring Is Green (2021), and Weak Hero Class 1 and 2 (2022-2025).
This new drama also includes actors Yoon Kyung-ho as the pompous Sergeant Park Jae-young, Han Dong-hee as the tough-as-nails Lieutenant Cho Ye-rin, and Lee Dong-nae as Sergeant Yoon Dong-hyun, a lovable but hapless cook. While Park Jae-young is known for being a mishap magnet, things get even worse with the arrival of Kang Sung-jae, who comes across as a recipe for disaster. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Cho Ye-rin is the high-achieving type who’s got her life together. That is, until Sung-jae shows up. There’s also Yoon Dong-hyun, the kitchen sergeant who’s always getting roasted for his bad cooking skills, until Sung-jae steps into the kitchen and stirs the pot even further.
The show is expected to arrive next year with an exact release date yet to be announced.
The Netflix livestream will broadcast from Seoul on March 21
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