Baek Jong-won

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Baek Jong-won
Born (1966-09-04) September 4, 1966 (age 57)
Yesan County, South Korea
Education
Occupation(s)Restaurateur, entrepreneur
Spouse
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(m. 2013)​
Children3
Culinary career
Cooking style
Current restaurant(s)
    • Bornga
    • Baek's Coffee
    • Baek's Bibim
    • Baek's Pan
    • Saemaul Sikdang
Websitewww.theborn.co.kr
Korean name
Hangul
백종원
Hanja
Revised RomanizationPaik Jong-won
McCune–ReischauerPaek Chongwŏn

Baek Jong-won (

SBS' cooking television series Baek Jong-won's Top 3 Chef King, Baek Jong-won's Food Truck, and Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant
.

Personal life

Baek Jong-won was born on September 4, 1966, in

Chungnam, South Korea.[1] He was interested in food since he was a child.[2] When he was an elementary school student, he was given some biscuits, but he had to fry them with butter and sprinkle them with sugar. He said his father was also a picky eater, which made him more interested in cooking. When he was a student, his father would buy ten hamburgers at a time on his way home after a business trip. Baek Jong-won would try different recipes to make the hamburgers taste better. It was from then that he started to cook.[3]

Baek married actress So Yoo-jin on January 19, 2013.[4][5] Their first child, a son, was born on April 9, 2014.[6] Their second child, a daughter, was born on September 21, 2015.[7] Their third child, a daughter, was born on February 8, 2018.[8][9]

Career

Baek has hosted a number of cooking television shows, including Baek Jong-won's Top 3 Chef King, Baek Jong-won's Food Truck, and Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant. In 2021, he produced his own original series Baek Spirit, with Netflix.[10]

He is also the CEO of Theborn Korea Inc, 26 restaurant franchises with 1,299 branches across the country including Saemaul Sikdang,[11] Baek's Coffee,[12] and Baek's Bibim.[13]

Filmography

Television series

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2024 Flex X Cop himself Cameo (episode 1) [14]

Television shows

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2010 VJ Commando
2013 Veranda Show The World of Army Food
Real Men Judge Cooking show segment [15]
2014
Happy Together
 		Christmas Special
World opinion ATLAS
K Chef Battlefield S2
2015–2017 Baek Jong-won's Top 3 Chef King Main host
2015 My Little Television [16]
Yunyega Junggye
2015–2017 Home Food Rescue [17]
2015 K Chef Battlefield S3
2016 Go Go with Mr. Paik [18]
2017 Baek Jong-won's Food Truck Main host [19]
2018–2019 Street Food Fighter
2018–2021 Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant [20]
2019 Paik's Mysterious Kitchen [21]
High School Lunch Cook-off
Manners of Taste
2019–2021 Delicious Rendezvous [22]
2020–present The Paikfather [23]
2021 Korean Pork Belly Rhapsody
Baek Jong-won Class with Sung Si-kyung [24]
Baek Jong-won's Four Seasons [25][26]
Paik's Spirit [27][28]
2022 The Backpacker Chef with
Dindin, Ahn Bo-hyun and Oh Dae-hwan
 [29]
2023-2024 The Genius Paik Cast member with Kwon Yu-ri, Lee Jang-woo, BamBam and John Park [30]
The Genius Paik 2 with Lee Jang-woo, Kwon Yu-ri, John Park, Lee Kyu-hyung, Hyoyeon, Fabrizio Ferrari and Eric [31]

Books

He has published many books, usually on cooking or restaurant management.

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination
Award ceremony Year Category Nominee / Work Result Ref.
Blue Dragon Series Awards 2022 Best Male Entertainer Baek Jong-won's Four Seasons Nominated [33]
The Tourism & Sciences Society of Korea 2015 Grand Prize Baek Jong-won Won [citation needed]
tvN10 Awards 2016 Best Content Award, Variety Go Go with Mr. Paik Nominated [34]
SBS Entertainment Awards 2016 Special Prize Baek Jong-won's Top 3 Chef King Won [35]

Listicles

Name of publisher, year listed, name of listicle, and placement
Publisher Year Listicle Placement Ref.
Forbes 2016 Korea Power Celebrity 40 21st [36]
2017 37th [37]
2018 38th [38]
2019 36th [39]
2020 16th [40]
2021 18th [41]

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