Director Lee Joon-ik takes on short-form drama for the first time
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- Director Lee Joon-ik is making his first short-form drama with “Father’s Home Cooking.”
- The production follows a father who enters the kitchen for the first time after his wife develops a condition described as “cooking blankness.”
Director Lee Joon-ik is making his first venture into short-form drama with “Father’s Home Cooking.”
A press screening for the vertical-format cinema production took place at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Seoul’s Songpa district. Lee and actor Jung Jin... attended the event.
The story follows Ha-eung, a father who has spent 40 years seeking home-cooked meals three times a day. When his wife, Soon-ae, develops a condition described as “cooking blankness,” he enters the kitchen for the first time in his life to take her place.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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