Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, a romantic comedy about a chef who accidentally falls through time into the Joseon Era, is the latest Korean drama to find popularity on Netflix. After the release of the series’ first two episodes, the time-slip story (known as 폭군의 셰프, or The Tyrant’s Chef , in Korea) was in the U.S. Top Ten and reached the top spot in the Global Top Ten , proving just how popular a well-executed starcrossed romance can be.

And the burgeoning love story between 21st century chef Yeon Ji-yeong ( King the Land ’s Lim Yoon-a) and Joseon-era tyrant King Lee Heon ( Hierarchy ’s Lee Chae-min) is very much starcrossed. Not only do the two characters hail from vastly different time periods, but the male lead is loosely based on one of the cruelest rulers in Korean hist

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