Final Table

The Final Table will feature a competition ("The table: K chef 2026") where top Korean chefs from around the world come together to prepare a feast of exceptional dishes to select the best Korean chef.

Ahn Hyo-seop will play Kang Han, a Korean chef living abroad. After an unexpected turn of events, he decides to enter this prestigious culinary competition as a representative of the Familia restaurant. He’ll face numerous competitors determined to win the title, including Cha Woo-jin, played by Chang Ryul.

Considered a culinary prodigy from a very young age, Cha Woo-jin is a perfectionist chef who thinks only of winning. His rivalry with Kang Han is expected to be one of the drama’s main driving forces. Beyond the kitchen, «Final Table» will also explore the characters’ personal relationships and emotional wounds.

Hong Hwa-yeon will play Choi Song-yi, the manager of the Familia restaurant. After her father goes missing, she tries to protect the family business—until she meets Kang Han, who could change her future.

Song-yi lost her mother when she was still young and grew up with her father, a renowned chef, with whom she runs the family restaurant, Familia. But while cooking has always been a part of her daily life, she isn’t the one in the kitchen.

Song-yi works as a floor manager. She greets customers, oversees service, and ensures the restaurant runs smoothly. She doesn’t yet have any real experience as a cook. That doesn’t stop her from being passionate about food and, above all, from being her father’s biggest fan when it comes to his cooking. However, that balance is shattered when a terrible event strikes her family.

Her father dies following an incident that also destroyed her reputation. Song-yi is left with a restaurant on the verge of closing and the feeling that her father’s legacy might disappear along with him. So she decides to take what seems like her last chance to save Familia: participating in «The Table: K-Chef 2026.».

Jung Yoo-jin, for her part, will play Seon Jung-won, the executive producer behind this major culinary competition.

One of the unique features of «Final Table» will be its hybrid format. The production team had previously explained that the competition would be staged like a real cooking show, giving viewers the impression that they are watching both a survival show and a drama.