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From left: Kim Seo-hyung, Ji Ho-eun and Han Suk-kyu are a family that strengthens their ties through food in the K-drama Recipe For Farewell.

(From left) Kim Seo-hyung, Ji Ho-eun and Han Suk-kyu strengthen their family ties through food in the K-drama Recipe For Farewell.

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SINGAPORE – What would you have for your last meal?

In the poignant K-drama Recipe For Farewell, based on author Kang Chang-rae’s autobiographical essays, actor Han Suk-kyu plays translator and humanities professor Chang-wook. He starts a diary while preparing food for his wife Da-jung (Kim Seo-hyung), who is at the end stage of colorectal cancer.

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