Choi Hyun-seok will be appearing on SBS Jungle Bob Season 2.

The production team of SBS ‘Jungle Bob’ announced today (15th), “Chef Choi Hyun-seok will be joining ‘Jungle Bob’ Season 2. Please look forward to Chef Choi Hyun-seok‘s activities that will enrich ‘Jungle Bob’.” Choi Hyun-seok is a fine dining chef with 30 years of experience and has gained syndrome-level popularity through various cooking entertainment shows with his signature bluff performances and experimental recipes. Attention is focused on the creative performance that Choi Hyun-seok, who always creates unconventional dishes with his limitless cooking spectrum, will show when he meets unfamiliar jungle ingredients.

In addition, Ryu Soo-young, who truly captivated the jungle’s taste buds last season, will also be appearing on Season 2. Armed with an overflowing curiosity about new ingredients, Ryu Soo-young is expected to make his mark in the ‘K-Home Cooking’ world with novel recipes in Season 2. In particular, attention is already focused on the synergy that will be created by Ryu Soo-young, the pioneer of ‘K-Home Cooking’, who has captured the hearts of housewives and single-person households in Korea, and Choi Hyun-seok, the ‘heretic of the cooking world’.

Meanwhile, SBS ‘Jungle Rice’ is a program that tells the story of cooking with ingredients that can only be found in the jungle and interacting with locals. In season 1, it showed the essence of a ‘cooking entertainment show’ with various recipes that stimulate the salivary glands, and maintained the number 1 viewership rating in the same time slot from the first episode to the last.

‘Jungle Food’ season 2, which will bring about a seismic shift in jungle cooking with the addition of Chef Choi Hyun-seok, is scheduled to air in the first half of this year.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com