ENA‘s new Saturday entertainment show ‘Baek Jong-won’s Les Miserables’ will air for the first time on the 30th.

‘Baek Jong-won‘s Les Miserables’ is a growth entertainment show in which 20 challengers, with a short but intense narrative, perform harsh Spartan missions in order to seize the first and last chance to turn their lives around, and overcome them, as well as Baek Jong-won’s sincerity in treating people. The production team pointed out the key points to watch for ‘Baek Jong-won‘s Les Miserables’ ahead of the first broadcast.


A meeting between CEO Baek Jong-won and the four head chefs

According to the production team, CEO Baek Jong-won, the god of business, has stepped forward for ‘Baek Jong-won’s Les Miserables’. Here, four masters of cooking across genres, Chef Kim Min-seong (Japanese class), Chef David Lee (Meat class), Chef Lim Tae-hoon (Chinese class), and Chef Yoon Nam-no (Western class), have joined as head chefs. They are all so-called ‘experts’ who have achieved significant results in their respective positions.

Another thing to note is the passion that CEO Baek Jong-won and the four head chefs pour out for the 20 challengers. They each share the know-how in business and cooking that they have accumulated through their experiences with the 20 challengers and bring out their desperation. The story of these real experts who have gathered to create proper businessmen is anticipated.


Intense characters, and an even more intense story of a life reversal

‘Baek Jong-won‘s Les Miserables’ features 20 challengers who have gathered to seize the first and last opportunity to turn their lives around. Those who have experienced the bitterness of failure in any form will jump into the harsh survival show with their desperation as their weapon. The 20 challengers are expected to captivate viewers with raw characters and stories that have never been seen before.

Above all, the intense life reversal narrative and growth story that the 20 challengers will show are expected to bring hot emotions and messages to the living rooms. The production crew, CEO Baek Jong-won, and the four head chefs also chose their transformation as a key point to watch. The story of the 20 challengers who know nothing about business or cooking, starting from ‘0 Jong-won’, growing into ‘100 Jong-won’, is expected to unfold like a 20-episode drama.


The thrilling tension that a survival program brings

‘Baek Jong-won’s Les Miserables’ is not a cooking competition program. It is a survival program that creates businessmen. As the last person is given a chance to turn his life around, CEO Baek Jong-won and the production team have meticulously designed the world‘s harshest Spartan-style missions. And this competition will push the 20 challengers to the limit.

The cruelty of survival where someone else must fall in order for me to survive. The thrilling tension and hot emotions that bloom within it. In fact, the four head chefs who watched their competition from the side complained of ‘over-immersion’. We look forward to the diverse emotions and fun that ‘Baek Jong-won’s Les Miserables’ will present to viewers.

However, since there is a controversy over the glorification of crime, it is important what kind of content the show contains. If there is any room for glorification, viewers may continue to criticize.

‘Baek Jong-won‘s Les Miserables’ will be first broadcast at 8:30 PM on Saturday the 30th.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com reporter projecthong@donga.com