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Yoona (left) and Lee Chae-min in Bon Appetit, Your Majesty.

Yoona (left) and Lee Chae-min in Bon Appetit, Your Majesty.

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NEW YORK – If you had to cook to save yourself, what would you make? That is the prompt presented to Ji-young, a decorated chef and protagonist of K-drama Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, which is showing on Netflix.

After accidentally time-travelling to 16th-century Korea, Ji-young (played by Yoona from K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation) must cook for a tyrant king, Yi Heon (Lee Chae-min), as if her life depends on it. (It does.)

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