‘Pasta’ that I will talk about in this
essay is not food. It is name of the most popular Korean drama. As you would expect
already, it is a drama about chefs. The reasons why this drama drew attention
from people are love and passion that can be seen in this drama. Besides these,
there is other important element that we have to focus on and that is ‘Kitchen’
which is the most important place in this drama. ‘Kitchen’ is where characters
grow up, fall in love and cooperate. Therefore, through kitchen we can feel
their desire to be chefs, companionship and love.
There are main girl character called Yu-gyeong
and boy character called Hyun-wook in this drama. Like any other dramas, these
two characters fall in love each other and their love starts from the kitchen.
There is one scene that we can feel how much he loves her. When he starts to
work in the restaurant called La Sfera as a head cook, he announces that there
should be no love between girls and boys in the kitchen. However, he falls in
love with Yu-gyeong later which means that he breaks rules himself. Therefore,
he declares in the kitchen that “She likes me but I love her. However, I don’t
want to ask your forgiveness for my love. Therefore, I will leave the kitchen
from now on.” In addition, we can feel not only love but also companionship among
characters in the kitchen. Before Hyun-wook publically discloses his love in
the kitchen, the youngest cook spreads rumor about his love. After that, he leaves
the kitchen because he feels guilty. However, Hyun-wook forgives him and
accepts him as his student again.
Through kitchen, we can feel their passion
and how desperately they want to be a chef as well. In this kitchen, there are
two groups. In one group there are people who learn to cook in Korea and in the
other group there are people who learn to cook abroad. These two groups always
compete and argue each other in the kitchen. In addition people who learn to
cook abroad always ignore people who learn cooking in Korea. Hyun-wook, the
main boy character, is a leader of a group of people who learn abroad.
Therefore, Hyun-wook always mistreats and ignores the people who get training
in Korea. However, even though they are not treated well in the kitchen, they always
keep trying hard to be a chef and never give up.
As I mentioned before, through this drama I
could feel their enthusiasm for cooking and love between Hyun-wook and
Yu-gyeong. These things are shown centering around the kitchen. Therefore,
kitchen is the most significant element in this drama. In addition, through the
kitchen, I think the writer of this drama want to tell us that if we have
passion and love inside of us, there is no reason of fail.
