Bon Appetit, Your Majesty has been one of the biggest Netflix hits of the fall season, drawing in Korean drama fans with a winning combination of period romance and culinary adventure. The 12-episode series adapted from a web novel called Surviving as Yeonsangun’s Chef by Park Guk-jae follows modern chef Yeon Ji-yeong ( King the Land ’s Lim Yoon-a) as she falls through time to Joseon-era Korea . Once stuck in the past, Ji-yeon must use her culinary prowess to stay alive under the notoriously tyrannical rule of King Lee Heon ( Hierarchy ’s Lee Chae-min).

“Given the added fantasy elements, our main goal was never to deliver strictly historical facts,” Lee Hye-young, Chief Producer at Studio Dragon, tells TIME of the series’ period drama philosophy. “The historical content func

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