Netflix’s Korean Reality Series ‘Culinary Class Wars’ Set for Season 2

As a part of its active investments in the Korean reality genre, Netflix has launched the Culinary Class Wars while the first season has been making a place in the Netflix top 10 list of non-english series for the last three weeks.

Netflix subscribers will soon be able to fill their faces with the second season of the culinary show Culinary Class Wars. The streamer revealed on Tuesday from Seoul that it has ordered a second season of the record-breaking Korean show. 

Similar in format to Netflix’s Korean reality hit Physical 100, Culinary Class Wars follows 100 elite chefs divided into two classes: called white spoons celebrities chefs and black spoonsordinary chefs over enamel. The participants then get a cooking competition that aims at prizes of 300 million Korean won (about 230 000 dollars). They are judged by two sharp-tongued local food experts:

Culinary Class Wars is a massive success not only in Korea but also around the globe. Launched last month, the show was Netflix’s first unscripted Korean language title that entered its global top-ten list of non-English series for three weeks successively. 

Netflix claims the first-season team of director and producer Kim Hak-min, producer Kim Eun-ji and writer Mo Eun-sol from Studio Slam will be back for season 2. 

I am very grateful to viewers. Because of them, we the folks get to come back for a Season 2. In a unanimous statement of the three, “ swear to give back the love and strive to meet as many expectations as possible.”  

Added Ki Hwan Yoo, Netflix’s director of content in Korea: It is not easy to organize such events and we are glad that we managed to make it with the help of our wonderful team. And as we build out the rest of our unscripted slate, we’re excited to bring you even more compelling and distinctive titles in the near future.

Over the past two years, Netflix has ploughed sizeably into the Korean unscripted market to try to replicate the success it has had with reality genre, K-drama. NX also upped its unscripted output in 2024 and by this year, its producing 10 titles — twice as many as what it was making in 2022. From August the company started launching one new Korean reality show per month. Upcoming releases include the second season of the zombie variety show, Zombieverse: New Blood, and then the new series Rugged Rugby: Conquer or Die presenting the otherwise very different surprising Korean rugby. The program Netflix’s first K-reality favorite Single’s Inferno is set to release its fourth season early the following year.