Baek Jong-won “After dating So Yu-jin, Ringer was so hard”

Cooking entrepreneur Baek Jong-won sympathized with Chef Ji-sun Jeong‘s husband.

On the 8th, Baek Jong-won posted a video titled ‘Ji-sun Jeong, who made me kick the blanket, come here!’ on his YouTube channel. The video shows Baek Jong-won meeting Chef Ji-sun Jeong, a contestant on ‘Black and White Chef’, and cooking and talking together.

On this day, Ji-sun Jeong presented a dish called Malagis, a drinking snack using chicken breast. She said that she often makes this dish when she drinks alone. Ji-sun Jeong said, “I drink alone a lot. My husband doesn’t drink. Even though there‘s a lot of alcohol at home, he doesn’t even look at me. I enjoy it,“ he said.

When Baek Jong-won asked, ”Isn‘t it because your wife drinks too much that you have to hold back?“, Jung Ji-sun said, ”My husband didn’t drink even when we were dating. He didn‘t drink much even when we were dating,“ and revealed, ”I drink Geummun Goryangju by myself. I think I drink about 300ml by myself. I make a snack like this and drink it, or if I’m lazy, I drink it while eating seaweed.“

After tasting the Maragi, Baek Jong-won was impressed and strongly recommended it, saying, ”I think it would be good to sell it at a restaurant.“ Jung Ji-sun replied, ”My husband and I fight every day about the menu we sell at our restaurant. I learned a lot of dishes from China and want to apply them, but my husband says popularization is important and that no one knows about it. I learned a lot of unique dishes, so I like those,” he confessed.

Baek Jong-won said, “It’s the best as a drinking snack,” and mentioned an anecdote, saying, “My wife (So Yu-jin) recently went to Chef Ji-sun Jeong’s restaurant with Jin-hwa Shim and spent around 400,000 won.” When Ji-sun Jeong said, “She drinks quite a bit,” Baek Jong-won said with a laugh, “I understand Chef Ji-sun Jeong’s husband’s feelings a little. My wife drinks a lot.” He said, “My wife learned to drink late, so she has a good liver,” and recalled, “It was really hard when we were dating. She drank better than me. When we were dating, I would get an IV drip the next day because I was so tired after a date.”

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com