Only You is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Han Chae-young, Jo Hyun-jae, Lee Chun-hee and Hong Soo-hyun. It is produced and broadcast by SBS from 4 June to 24 July 2005 for 16 episodes.
It is the only Korean drama shot in Italy. Part of the series was filmed in Vicenza, a city in the Veneto region near Venice and Verona.
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Plot
Eun-jae (Han Chae-young) is a very stubborn and proud 20-year-old girl who has a passion for cooking. Because she does not have an interest in studying, she runs away to Vicenza in Italy before she graduates from high school to enroll in a cooking school. Her high school friend, who loves her dearly and shares her passion for cooking, comes along with her.
Han Yi-joon (Jo Hyun-jae) is from a wealthy family who owns a large hotel and various restaurants. He travels to Italy in search of his mother that abandoned his family when he was young and there he runs into Eun-jae. Coincidentally, Eun-jae had also been seeking the mother, who happens to be a chef in Vicenza, to learn the secrets to making great pasta. Both chance upon the mother just as she was about to get remarried to an Italian man. She comforts Yi-joon, who is distraught over his mother's remarriage, and they spend the night together. She ends up pregnant and has to give up her dream – but does not tell Yi-joon.
Six years later, they have all returned to live in South Korea – Eun-jae working low paying cooking jobs, Yi-joon taking over the operations of his family's restaurant, and Eun-jae's friend working as a chef for one of the restaurants owned by Yi-joon and financially supporting Eun-jae's family, including the child born out of wedlock, because they have fallen on hard times. Yi-joon still has feelings for Eun-jae and they run into each other just as he is looking for a new chef for his restaurant-with her in mind. Soon Hyeon who is a family friend of Yi-joon is in love with him and tries to confess her feelings to him
Cast
Han Chae-young as Cha Eun-jae
Jo Hyun-jae as Han Yi-joon
Lee Chun-hee as Jung Hyun-sung
Hong Soo-hyun as Ji Soon-yeon
Lee Byung-joon as Cha Jin-sol
Jung Won-joong as Cha Sung-taek
Song Ok-sook as Park Mi-jung
Jeon Hye-bin as Cha Soo-jae
Jung Wook as Han Seung-ryeol
Jung Ae-ri as Yoon Hee-jin
Lee Ah-hyun as Han Yi-kyung
List of episodes
Episode 1
Hyun-sung and Eun-jae win the Noodle King cooking contest. Her mother is not impressed with her cooking ambitions and enrolls her in a boarding school. Hyun-sung and Eun-jae run away to Italy to study cooking. To pass the final exam, she wants to learn a pasta recipe from a South Korean woman in Italy. She bumps into Yi-joon who is there looking for his mother. By coincidence, they discover they are looking for the same person and begrudgingly help each other to locate her.
Episode 2
They find Yi-joon's mother just before she gets married. She does not tell Yi-joon that she recognises him but teaches Eun-jae the pepper pasta recipe. Eun-jae and Yi-joon sleep together. In the morning when Eun-jae is out, Hyun-sung enters the apartment, getting into a fight with Yi-joon. Yi-joon leaves thinking Hyun-sung is Eun-jae's boyfriend. Six years passes, Eun-jae is a single mother to Jin-sol. She had a job in a restaurant as a busser. Yi-joon unknowingly tasted her pasta when the restaurant's chef accidentally stepped on a spilled cooking oil and fell. Eun-jae cooks the food for Yi-joon without permission from the manager.
Episode 3
Yi-joon starts his plan to improve a restaurant as a test from his father. Eun-jae begins a new job serving snacks in a bar and accidentally meets Yi-joon again. Eun-jae is offered a job at Yi-joon's restaurant.
Episode 4
Eun-jae takes the job at Yi-joon's restaurant. Hyun-sung is pulled from his regular restaurant to train her. Eun-jae's first task is to develop a new menu. Although her first few dishes are nothing spectacular, her special roast chicken impresses. An open tasting is organised to gauge public reaction.
Episode 5
Yi-joon looks through Eun-jae's purse and discovers a photo of her and Jin-sol. There's an open tasting at the restaurant and Eun-jae's family unknowingly turn up. Believing her family is biased in the evaluation, the results are declared invalid. Eun-jae is given one more chance to impress a critic. She and Yi-joon search the countryside for a special garlic. Yi-joon finally asked Eun-jae out.
Adaptation
In 2009, ABS-CBN produced a Philippine remake based on Only You. The adaptation was originally aired from 27 April to 21 August 2009.