K-Drama School – Ep 201: Bon Appetit Your Majesty and Light with Jason Kutz

[Spoiler Alert] Grace has a couple of show date announcements: On Monday, December 1st at 7:30PM, she’s performing at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn, New York for the Not a Boy Not a Girl Comedy Show. On Thursday, December 18th at 8PM she’s performing at The Sugar Maple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Hotties Only Comedy Show. See you there. Today’s episode covers the show Bon Appetit Your Majesty (2025, tvN) based on a webtoon by Park Kuk-jae and directed by Jang Tae-yoo who worked on shows like My Love from the Star and War of Money. Grace discusses the actress Im Yoon-ah of the SM K-pop girl group Girls Generation and her performance. Grace tries to make sense of how the show fuses French cooking techniques with traditional Korean cuisine along with quantum physics. Grace’s guest is Madison-based musician and pianist Jason Kutz of Mr. Chair and Spectaculous. Grace and Jason talk about music, instruments, lightness, noodling, and so much more. Mr. Chair is playing Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special at Orpheum Theater in Madison on November 29. Be sure to catch their show. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email [email protected] for any booking inquiries.