Chef Jung Ji-sun, who concealed her pregnancy for four months, reveals experiences of discrimination as a female chef… "It remains as trauma" [You Quiz]

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Chef Jung Ji-sun will reveal her intense life story, from the discrimination and prejudice she faced because she is a woman to her journey in becoming a master of Chinese cuisine.

Jung will appear as a guest on episode 367 of the tvN variety show "You Quiz on the Block" (directed by Kim Ji-young and Heo Kang-seok, written by Lee Eon-ju), airing at 8 p.m. on the 4th, where she will meet host Yoo Jae-suk. The episode is themed "The real thing recognizes the real thing."

In this episode, Chef Jung Ji-sun, a 24-year veteran master of Chinese cuisine, is set to share her eventful journey in Chinese cooking, from overcoming the prejudice and discrimination faced as a female chef to reaching the pinnacle of her profession.

Behind-the-scenes stories from the popular tvN variety show "Undercover Chef," which concluded last July, will also be revealed. This includes behind-the-scenes details of her undercover job at a Chinese restaurant in Chengdu, China, where she posed as the junior staff member "Sunny," as well as special stories about reuniting with the Chengdu crew on the spin-off "Undercover Chef: A Friend from Afar." The reactions of the Chengdu crew, who witnessed Jung Ji-sun's fiery charisma in Korea, and episodes of her challenging K-spicy flavors will be shared.

The story of Chef Jung Ji-sun, who dreamed of becoming a kindergarten teacher before stepping into the world of Chinese cuisine, continues. She recounts starting as a junior in a Chinese kitchen, which is notoriously demanding within the food service industry, and shares the disrespect and discrimination she experienced when opportunities to learn cooking were blocked because female chefs were rare at the time. She reveals that the experience "remained as trauma" and shares the story of how she began maintaining intense eyeliner to avoid being looked down upon.

She also tells of her intense process of studying cooking while studying abroad in China alone, her extraordinary passion for researching recipes even by rummaging through the trash bins of famous local restaurants, and her growth into a "dim sum master." She shares stories from moments when she was frustrated at the threshold of employment because she is a female chef to an incident where she suffered a major accident requiring 30 stitches on her finger.

In particular, she reveals that she "was afraid of losing her job" and worked while concealing her pregnancy for four months, even coming to work during postpartum recovery. The episode unfolds the journey of how she has run more fiercely than anyone else to be recognized not as a Chinese cuisine "female" chef, but as Chef Jung Ji-sun, a Chinese cuisine chef, along with the reasons why she continues to study relentlessly even after becoming an owner-chef.

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