Lead cast: Park Ji-hoon, Han Dong-hee, Lee Sang-yi

Latest Nielsen rating: 6.25 per cent

Fresh from the record-breaking success of the period drama The King’s Warden, which has become the second-most-successful Korean film of all time, Park Ji-hoon looks to have another hit on his hands with the food-themed military comedy The Legend of Kitchen Soldier.

Based on the Naver webtoon Kitchen Soldier by J Robin, this thoroughly diverting series features Park as Kang Seong-jae, a new recruit in the army who is assigned to the seaside Gangrim barracks after completing boot camp.

Seong-jae aced basic training, but having recently lost his father and after exhibiting some peculiar behaviour, he is flagged as a cadet with potential mental health issues – and identified to fellow recruits with a patronising smiley-face pin on his uniform. Rather than send him into the field, his new superiors assign him to kitchen duty.