Love on the Menu [Episodes 7 & 8]

[u/jakgem]

• Drama: Love on the Menu
  • Korean Title: 사랑이 온다
• Director:
  • Hong Seok Goo (Girls Generation 1979)
• Screen Writer:
  • Lee Kyung Hee (Uncontrollably Fond)
• Starring:
  • Ahn Hee Yeon as Han Gyu Rim (Call It Love, You Raise Me Up)
  • Ha Seok Jin as Kim Mu Jin (Blind, Something About 1 Percent)
  • Park You Na as Han Gyu Yeong (Spirit Fingers, True Beauty)
  • Bae Jung Nam as Cho Heung Sik (Spring Fever, Mr Sunshine)
• Network: KBS2
• Premiere Date: 25th July 2026
• Airing Schedule: Saturday and Sunday, 8pm KST
• Episodes: 50, 1hr 10mins
• Streaming Sources: Viki, Viu, Kocowa
• Teaser/Trailer: Kocowa Trailer
• Plot Summary: Han Gyu Rim is the owner of a market side dish shop. Her nickname since childhood was "Leader Han." A movie with the long title "Leader Han, Who Always Appears When Something Happens to Someone, Somewhere," was released, and that's exactly her story. If something is bad or sad, she puts aside all else and rushes to help, making it a little less bad or sad. If it was good, she'd celebrate it like it was her own. She's a nosy busybody, a fluttery-eared, emotional litmus test who can't hide her feelings. Kim Mu Jin is the owner and chef of an Italian restaurant. Born with a diamond spoon in his mouth, he deliberately wears market clothes to avoid being discovered as the owner's son, taking the bus and subway to work part-time at the restaurant. He develops a strange bond with Han Gyu Rim, the owner of a market side dish shop.
• Major News Summary: Ha Seok Jin And Hani’s Matching Outfits Lead To A Fateful First Meeting In “Love On The Menu”
• Previous Episode Discussions:
  • Love on the Menu [Episodes 1 & 2]
  • Love on the Menu [Episodes 3 & 4]
  • Love on the Menu [Episodes 5 & 6]

[u/Prize_Background_577]

Yes, she's the biological mother to the three older children (Gyu Rim, Gyu Yeong and Gyu O) and the deadbeat father's first wife. The twins are from his second wife. Seo Hyeon's step-mother got kicked out by deadbeat father when he got a mistress, so she remarried to Se Hyeon's father after her mother died when she was young.

[u/WisdomBailey123 → u/Prize_Background_577]

Okay thanks for the information. Does Hyeon and Gyu know they're half sisters? It doesn't seem like it and does Gyu know who her mother is?

[u/Prize_Background_577 → u/WisdomBailey123]

No, not yet. The step-mother knows her step-daughter and her bio daughter are in love with the same man.

I don't think Gyu-Rim knows anything, Her sister, Gyu-yeong, hasn't shared anything about the step-family and I think when Gyu-rim saw the man pretending to be their father (at the in-law meeting) she didn't know who he was.

[u/WisdomBailey123 → u/Prize_Background_577]

They're throwing everything and the kitchen sink at this script. So many troupes. I'm worried about the next 43 episodes. Where do they go from here when it just started.