''MasterChef Korea'' (Korean: ''마스터셰프 코리아'') is a South Korean competitive reality television cooking show based on the British television cooking game show ''
MasterChef
''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with the UK version in July 1990. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John ...
''. The first season premiered on
O'live Network on 27 April 2012. It ran for four seasons and ended on 19 May 2016.
The winner of MasterChef Korea received
300 million won, shopping credits, a refrigerator and their own cookbook.
Season Summary
: Male contestants
: Female contestants
Season 1: 27 April – 20 July 2012
* Winner: Kim Seung-min (김승민)
In the preliminary stages, participants had to prepare a dish and present it to the judges (i.e.
Kim Sohyi, and Noh Hee-young), who would decide if they would advance to the next stage and receive their white aprons. 39 people qualified and were then immediately put through a skills test in cutting
onion
An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onio ...
s and an invention test with the ingredient
tofu
Tofu (), also known as bean curd in English, is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness; it can be ''silken'', ''soft'', ''firm'', ''extra firm'' or ''super f ...
. The remaining top 15 contestants were then put through a series of tests to determine the winner of MasterChef Korea.
Contestants
Season 2
* Season 2: 10 May – 2 August 2013
** Winner: Choi Kang-rok (최강록)
Contestants
* Season 3: 10 May – 2 August 2014
** Winner: Choi Kwang Ho (최광호)
* Season 4: 3 March – 19 May 2016
** Winner: Kim Jung Hyun (김정현)
References
External links
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South Korean reality television series
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
2012 South Korean television series debuts
South Korean television series based on British television series
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