Chef Park Eun-young revealed her fiancé on JTBC’s Please Take Care of My Refrigerator.
On the May 5 episode of the variety show Please Take Care of My Refrigerator (Naengbuhae), Park Eun-young announced that she is getting married.
She told the cast, “I’m getting married in May,” and added that she chose to break the news first on Naengbuhae because the show feels like family to her.
Park, who gained wider recognition through Netflix’s Black & White Chef and is widely regarded as a leading figure in Chinese cuisine, will wed a man reported to be a physician at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul this May.
She clarified that her fiancé is not a chef. The two first met on a blind date years ago that didn’t work out at the time; they reconnected later and became a couple.
Asked why she decided to marry him, Park said, “Because I’m a chef, a lot of people expect me to cook for them. He’s the only one who’s offered to cook for me. I found that really lovely.”
When the hosts asked whether her fiancé had seen Naengbuhae — including Park’s playful onstage dances — she laughed and said he always asks if her restaurant is doing well whenever she dances. She added that each time she cut loose, he’d book more reservations and tell her he’d help drum up business — a small but telling sign of his affection.
Chef Choi Hyun-seok, often nicknamed the “wedding-song king” among chefs, revealed that Park asked him last week to perform at the wedding. When someone teased why she’d want him specifically, Park shrugged and said she needed someone to sing and that Choi had volunteered.
To celebrate the news, Tiffany and Hyoyeon offered a live rendition of Girls’ Generation’s “Kissing You,” a song commonly performed as a wedding number.
After the announcement, fellow cast member Yoon Nam-no joked about staging an over-the-top reception: “I want to hold the wedding at a sashimi restaurant. Rent out Noryangjin Fish Market, have Chef Jung Ho-young do a tuna-cutting show, and host the after-party in Majang-dong. I want the guests to leave full.”
Choi pressed his own bid to perform, saying he wanted to realize his dream of singing at Son Jong-won’s wedding. Son declined, pointing out he prefers a solemn ceremony, prompting laughter around the table.
Kim Eun-jung, TenAsia reporter
