Pasta - Season 1 (2010)

When Hyun-wook opens his eyes to see the person he chose through the blind test, he is stunned to see Yoo-gyeong before him. Yoo-gyeong is overjoyed and asks Hyun-wook to repeat the words, "You're hired." Later in the day, Hyun-wook calls Yoo-gyeong to the kitchen and gives her some tough training on how to cook Italian food. Yoo-gyeong isn't fazed as she endures his impatient instructions and even requests that he teach her in this same manner in their next session. Hyun-wook tells his kitchen staff that he's not finished with culling the workforce. He then banishes ...

Yoo-gyeong confesses to everyone that kickbacks for retaining Mr. Seol as their egg supplier were wired to her bank account but she maintains that she didn't take a cent and asks Hyun-wook to believe her. So Hyun-wook takes Yoo-gyeong with her to meet Mr. Seol to learn the truth of the matter. Hyun-wook and Gwang-tae are stunned to hear that Mr. Seol also knew that Yoo-gyeong received the kickbacks. Riding in a truck with Hyun-wook on her way home, Yoo-gyeong looks utterly miserable. Then they bump into San and Sae-young. San hands an apartment rental contract to ...

Delighted that her innocence has been proven, Yoo-gyeong plants a kiss on Hyun-wook's cheek. She then stares at Hyun-wook, who is flustered over the surprise kiss, and runs out of the elevator when the doors open. Seok-ho learns that San is the owner of La Spera while overhearing San talking with Mr. Seol. When Hyun-wook says that he doesn't get romantically involved with anyone in his kitchen, Yoo-gyeong meekly asks if having a crush on someone is permissible. San individually meets the restaurant workers one by one and tells them that while La Spera closes down for ...

Yoo-gyeong and Hyun-wook pick a huge file fish at the fish market and Hyun-wook makes a raw fish dish out of it. He hands the fish liver to Yoo-gyeong to eat. San calls Yoo-gyeong and gets a little uncomfortable when he hears that Yoo-gyeong is with Hyun-wook. San suggests that Hyun-wook attend a charity event instead of entering a cooking contest because he'd rather have Sae-young enter the contest. Inviting Yoo-gyeong over to his home, Hyun-wook instills Yoo-gyeong with confidence that she can become a good chef. Yoo-gyeong receives another demanding training ...

Yoo-gyeong, Hyun-wook, San and Sae-young meet each other in the hallway in an awkward moment. There's an unseen tension between the four people. Yoo-gyeong steps out of the hallway and gets surprised when Hyun-wook suddenly appears. While staring at a photo of a cactus plant that is attached to her locker, Yoo-gyeong asks San if it's a real cactus and then tells him not to treat her in a way that could give Hyun-wook the wrong message. The chefs carefully move carts of food and ingredients to the kitchen and La Spera opens for business again with zest and energy. ...

Hyun-wook asks Yoo-gyeong to think about why he can't like her. However, Yoo-gyeong replies that she can only come up with a string of reasons why he can like her. Sae-young confides in San that she would like to be acknowledged by Hyun-wook as an excellent chef and then she approaches Hyun-wook and asks him to maintain a strictly professional relationship at work. But Hyun-wook and Sae-young keep disagreeing in the kitchen. Yoo-gyeong tells Hyun-wook that she'd like to listen to both him and Sae-young. Meanwhile, an accident occurs in the kitchen when a hot frying ...

Yoo-gyeong gets giddy with happiness when she recalls the moment when Hyun-wook held her hand. Hyun-wook gets jealous when he sees San talking to Yoo-gyeong in a tender way. Yoo-gyeong is happy to hear Hyun-wook tell her that he'll treat her nicer than the way San treats her. Hyun-wook playfully pinches Yoo-gyeong's lips together with a clam when she doesn't stop laughing. Sae-young has a disagreement with the three chefs who went to culinary school in Italy over the soup they'll make. The three chefs storm out of the kitchen and take Yoo-gyeong with them. Yoo-gyeong ...

Eun-soo happens to see Yoo-gyeong and Hyun-wook touching each other tenderly and this disturbs him. Eun-soo also gets disappointed when he checks how much his monthly wage is. A newly opened restaurant offers a job to Seok-ho, who asks his team to join him along with Eun-soo and Yoo-gyeong. Hyun-wook finds out about Seok-ho's offers and confronts Seok-ho about it. He tells Seok-ho that if he wants to quit La Spera, he should quit after his cooking skills surpass his. Hyun-wook takes Yoo-gyeong to a fancy restaurant for a date but he ruins it for her by nitpicking ...

When Eun-soo announces that he'll quit, everyone at La Spera is shocked to hear it. Hyun-wook calls Eun-soo to his office. But Hyun-wook is rendered speechless when Eun-soo tells him that he knows that Hyun-wook is dating Yoo-gyeong. Yoo-gyeong gets disappointed with Eun-soo over his decision to quit as she takes over his duties as assistant cook. Yoo-gyeong goes to see Eun-soo at a bar where he has found a new job. She implores him to return to the restaurant but Eun-soo steadfastly refuses. Hyun-wook spies San posting a photo of a cactus plant in Yoo-gyeong's locker...

When Sae-young sees Hyun-wook and Yoo-gyeong coming to work together, she tells Yoo-gyeong that she once dated Hyun-wook. The chefs warmly welcome back Eun-soo, who finally decided to return. San suggests that Hyun-wook share the chef room with Sae-young but Hyun-wook flatly refuses to share it. After getting berated by Hyun-wook and having her pride hurt when he compares her to Sae-young, Yoo-gyeong feels miserable. But she feels a bit better when Hyun-wook tells her that his tough talk is his form of showing his affection. Early the next morning, Hyun-wook teaches ...

Yoo-gyeong gives a box of chocolates to Hyun-wook and her friends Hee-joo, Mi-hee, and Chan-hee see her in the act of giving it to him. So they lunge for the Valentine's Day card that Yoo-gyeong wrote and read it. Yoo-gyeong explains to them that she's the one who has crush on Hyun-wook and that they are not dating at all. But Hyun-wook doesn't care whether the three girls think he is dating Yoo-gyeong or not. The other chefs here about the Valentine's Day gift that Yoo-gyeong gave to Hyun-wook and ask her what's going on. Hyun-wook calls the chefs in charge of ...

Manager Seol sees Yoo-gyeong and Hyun-wook cuddling together at a bus stop and he immediately reports what he saw to San. San orders him to pretend that he doesn't know that the two are dating. Hyun-wook and Manager Seol get into a heated argument over a scallop dish that Yoo-gyeong made. San approaches Yoo-gyeong and confesses his love for her. Seok-ho and his team of chefs get mad that they're paid less than the newly hired chefs and demand an explanation from Hyun-wook. Hyun-wook and San disagree with each other about the pay scale and can't find a compromise. ...

Ignoring the reaction of the La Spera chefs, Hyun-wook quits his job. When Yoo-gyeong insists that he should stay, Hyun-wook tells her that if she wants to work together with him, she can quit, too. With Eun-soo and the newly hired chefs also leaving with Hyun-wook, Yoo-gyeong doesn't waver and stays put in her job. A gentleman makes a reservation at La Spera and pre-orders ginseng pasta. While Yoo-gyeong looks through Hyun-wook's recipes, she discovers his recipe for ginseng pasta and calls him up to learn more details. Seok-ho tells everyone about a scandalous rumor...

Sae-young asks Hyun-wook to return to La Spera after telling him that she doesn't have the confidence to cook again. Seok-ho and his team of chefs are stunned when Hyun-wook and his team of chefs return to the restaurant. Yoo-gyeong is overjoyed to see them back. Hyun-wook promises everybody that he'll be fair and if breaks his promise, then he'll fire Yoo-gyeong. Hyun-wook calls the chefs in charge of making past and tells them he has chosen ginseng pasta as the Chef's Special and promptly tells Yoo-gyeong to give her ginseng pasta recipe to chef Sun Woo-deok. The ...

Hyun-wook and the La Spera chefs are shocked when they read about Sae-young's confession in a news conference. Overwhelmed with shock, San frantically calls Sae-young. Two food critics, who scathingly criticized La Spera in their last visit, order their steak rare. Hyun-wook calmly fills their order. While Yoo-gyeong teaches how to make ginseng pasta to the other chefs, she hears about the New Chef Cooking Competition but Seok-ho asks Yoo-gyeong to keep it a secret. Hyun-wook orders the staff to stop taking orders for steak because they ran out of ingredients and ...

After appearing at the kitchen, Yoo-gyeong heads straight to the cold storage room without glancing at Hyun-wook. After calming herself down, Yoo-gyeong gets cheerful again when Hyun-wook talks gently to her. Hyun-wook announces that Seok-ho and his team can enter the New Chef Cooking Competition under one condition and that's that everyone pull together and help Seok-ho's team. He divides the chefs into pairs to prepare for the competition. Yoo-gyeong will participate in the competition as a back-up chef. With the competition approaching, the chefs practice intensely...

After the chefs win the cooking competition, La Spera receives a deluge of customers. The chefs are busier than ever but now they have smiles on their faces. Yoo-gyeong finds it tough to decide whether to go to Italy to receive cooking training because it would mean that she'd be apart from Hyun-wook. Meanwhile, Hyun-wook goes to an Italian restaurant where Hee-joo, Mi-hee, and Chan-hee work as chefs and orders Spaghetti alla Carbonara. Yoo-gyeong's dad serves spicy Chinese noodles with abalone to Yoo-gyeong and Hyun-wook when they come over to his restaurant. Then ...