Webtoonist and TV cook Kim Poong to return in 'Please Take Care of My Refrigerator' reboot

Familiar faces will be returning to reboot the weekly chef cook-off show, "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator," including webtoonist and chef Kim Poong, confirmed the show's broadcaster JTBC on Tuesday.

Chef and webtoonist Kim Poong in a scene of JTBC's weekly chef cook-off show, "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator," that ran from 2014 to 2019. A reboot is slated to air in December. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Familiar faces will be returning to reboot the weekly chef cook-off show, "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator," including webtoonist Kim Poong, confirmed the show's broadcaster JTBC on Tuesday.

Kim stood out on the show's previous iteration, which ran from 2014 to 2019, as a competitor who had no training yet rivaled professionals, including fine dining chef Choi Hyun-seok and veteran Chinese cuisine chef Lee Yeon-bok. JTBC on Tuesday also said Lee would be returning in the show's reboot, according to local news reports.

Panel chef Lee Yeon-bok, left, and guest chef and celebrity Gordon Ramsay in a scene in season one of "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator." A reboot is set to air in December. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

“Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" has its regular panel of chefs helm dishes using the contents of an alternating celebrity guest's refrigerator in under 15 minutes. It was a quick hit at the time, featuring entertaining chefs and creative and relatively easy recipes that home cooks could reproduce.

The reboot will also feature new faces, including Netflix Korea's "Culinary Class Wars" contestants Edward Lee and Choi Kang-rok, who confirmed their appearances on "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" earlier this month.

TV host Kim Seong-joo, left, and retired professional footballer and TV personality Ahn Jung-hwan as emcees during the season one of "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator." A reboot is slated to air in December. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

JTBC is reportedly "in talks" with the cooking show's season one emcees, TV host Kim Seong-joo and retired professional footballer and TV personality Ahn Jung-hwan, to bring them back for the reboot.

It is scheduled to air in December. The exact date has not yet been confirmed.

BY LEE JIAN [lee.jian@joongang.co.kr]