Only You (2005 TV series)

Eun-jae (Han Chae-young) is a very stubborn and proud 20-year-old girl who has a passion for cooking. Because she does not have an interest in studying, she runs away to Vicenza in Italy before she graduates from high school to enroll in a cooking school. Her high school friend, who loves her dearly and shares her passion for cooking, comes along with her.

Han Yi-joon (Jo Hyun-jae) is from a wealthy family who owns a large hotel and various restaurants. He travels to Italy in search of his mother that abandoned his family when he was young and there he runs into Eun-jae. Coincidentally, Eun-jae had also been seeking the mother, who happens to be a chef in Vicenza, to learn the secrets to making great pasta. Both chance upon the mother just as she was about to get remarried to an Italian. She comforts Yi-joon, who is distraught over his mother's remarriage, and they spend the night together. She ends up pregnant and has to give up her dream – but does not tell Yi-joon.

Six years later, they have all returned to live in South Korea – Eun-jae working low paying cooking jobs, Yi-joon taking over the operations of his family's restaurant, and Eun-jae's friend working as a chef for one of the restaurants owned by Yi-joon and financially supporting Eun-jae's family, including the child born out of wedlock,^[1] because they have fallen on hard times. Yi-joon still has feelings for Eun-jae and they run into each other just as he is looking for a new chef for his restaurant-with her in mind. Soon Hyeon who is a family friend of Yi-joon is in love with him and tries to confess her feelings to him

• Han Chae-young as Cha Eun-jae
• Jo Hyun-jae as Han Yi-joon
• Lee Chun-hee as Jung Hyun-sung
• Hong Soo-hyun as Ji Soon-yeon
• Lee Byung-joon as Cha Jin-sol
• Jung Won-joong as Cha Sung-taek
• Song Ok-sook as Park Mi-jung
• Jeon Hye-bin as Cha Soo-jae
• Jung Wook as Han Seung-ryeol
• Jung Ae-ri as Yoon Hee-jin
• Lee Ah-hyun as Han Yi-kyung

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Episode 1

Hyun-sung and Eun-jae win the Noodle King cooking contest. Her mother is not impressed with her cooking ambitions and enrolls her in a boarding school. Hyun-sung and Eun-jae run away to Italy to study cooking. To pass the final exam, she wants to learn a pasta recipe from a South Korean woman in Italy. She bumps into Yi-joon who is there looking for his mother. By coincidence, they discover they are looking for the same person and begrudgingly help each other to locate her.

Episode 2

They find Yi-joon's mother just before she gets married. She does not tell Yi-joon that she recognises him but teaches Eun-jae the pepper pasta recipe. Eun-jae and Yi-joon sleep together. In the morning when Eun-jae is out, Hyun-sung enters the apartment, getting into a fight with Yi-joon. Yi-joon leaves thinking Hyun-sung is Eun-jae's boyfriend. Six years passes, Eun-jae is a single mother to Jin-sol. She had a job in a restaurant as a busboy. Yi-joon unknowingly tasted her pasta when the restaurant's chef accidentally stepped on a spilled cooking oil and fell. Eun-jae cooks the food for Yi-joon without permission from the manager.

Episode 3

Yi-joon starts his plan to improve a restaurant as a test from his father. Eun-jae begins a new job serving snacks in a bar and accidentally meets Yi-joon again. Eun-jae is offered a job at Yi-joon's restaurant.

Episode 4

Eun-jae takes the job at Yi-joon's restaurant. Hyun-sung is pulled from his regular restaurant to train her. Eun-jae's first task is to develop a new menu. Although her first few dishes are nothing spectacular, her special roast chicken impresses. An open tasting is organised to gauge public reaction.

Episode 5

Yi-joon looks through Eun-jae's purse and discovers a photo of her and Jin-sol. There's an open tasting at the restaurant and Eun-jae's family unknowingly turn up. Believing her family is biased in the evaluation, the results are declared invalid. Eun-jae is given one more chance to impress a critic. She and Yi-joon search the countryside for a special garlic. Yi-joon finally asked Eun-jae out.

Episode 6

An unexpected visit by Jin-sol and Eun-jae's sister to Hyun-sung's workplace leads Soon-yeon to discover that Eun-jae is a single mother. A food critic turns up to try out Eun-jae's cuisine. Seeing the critic has a cold, she abandons her initial dishes and makes hot soup for the critic. The critic although touched with the thought, says he can not give a good review as he did not taste the real food of the establishment.

Episode 7

Yi-joon gets mad at Eun-jae on discovering she's a single mother. She leaves the restaurant and helps out at a canteen on a construction site. Eun-jae's parents instruct Hyun-sung on how to attract Eun-jae. Yi-joon asks Eun-jae if he is the father, but Eun-jae denies it. Yi-joon convinces Eun-jae to cook for the chairman. The chairman is impressed and names Eun-jae as head chef for that franchise, however she does not return to take the position.

Episode 8

Yi-joon finally confesses that he's in love with Eun-jae. Eun-jae returns to work at the canteen near the construction site. After Yi-joon pesters her daily at the canteen, she agrees to return. A brand new kitchen is set up for Eun-jae to try new recipes.

Episode 9

Hyun-sung and Soon-yeon confront Yi-joon and Eun-jae. Eun-jae's parents still hope that she and Hyun-sung will get together. A promotional photo show Yi-joon and Eun-jae close together. Yi-joon purchases an apartment for Eun-jae's family and tries to persuade her to move out of Hyun-sung's house.

Episode 10

After Eun-jae tells Hyun-sung that they will not be together, Hyun-sung drowns his sorrows in bottles of alcohol. Yi-joon forgets Soon-yeon's birthday and breaks her heart. Eun-jae refuses to have the restaurant's food taken for a television show after she finds out that colouring is added. This ruins the chance to boost the restaurant's popularity. Soon-yeon discovers that Jin-sol is Yi-joon's son.

Episode 11

Yi-joon's father discovers Eun-jae is a single mother. Yi-joon asks her to tell everyone that he is father without knowing that he really is the father. Eun-jae takes Jin-sol to have day out with Yi-joon. Jin-sol sees Hyun-sung as his paternal influence and gets Yi-joon jealous. Eun-jae's family moves out to a smaller apartment.

Episode 12

Eun-jae is about to tell Yi-joon that Jin-sol is his son. Yi-joon is angry that this information was hidden from him. Yi-joon has a change of heart and wants to take a larger role as Jin-sol's father. Eun-jae's father asks Yi-joon to provide him with an expensive shop contract. Soon-yeon approaches Yi-joon's father seeking to marry Yi-joon. In a bar, Soon-yeon and Hyun-sung drink their sorrows away with the knowledge that neither may actually be happy in their current situation.

Episode 13

A leaked company announcement reveals that Eun-jae and Yi-joon are dating. Eun-jae's mother finds out that her hushand accepted an expensive store contract from Yi-joon and makes him give it back. Yi-joon proposes to Eun-jae stating that although he doesn't have a ring, Jin-sol represents a ring for them. Yi-joon's father, in an effort to separate the two, issues a letter stating that he will contest custody of Eun-jae's son.

Episode 14

Eun-jae begins working as an assistant in a TV cooking show. The chef is especially cruel to Eun-jae. Yi-joon and Eun-jae decide to go their separate ways, with Yi-joon agreeing to marry Soon-yeon. A party is held to formally introduce Yi-joon and Soon-yeon as engaged.

Episode 15

Yi-joon cancels his engagement and runs into Eun-jae. Eun-jae gets mad at him fearing that Yi-joon's father will start a custody battle to take Jin-sol away from her. At the television studio where Eun-jae works, she accidentally comes across a secret South Korean sauce from the chef there. Yi-joon's father approaches Eun-jae with an offer to leave. The episode ends with Yi-joon finally tells Jin-sol that he is his father.

Episode 16

Eun-jae has to prepare an Italian-South Korean fusion dish to save the restaurant. She perfects a secret sauce from a South Korean chef and prepares a great dish. With the restaurant saved, she contemplates leaving to another country but comes to realization that she cannot leave Jin-sol without a father. Soon-yeon finally gets over Yi-joon and decides to expand her education in Japan. Hyun-sung quits as chef of his franchise and is able to let go of Eun-jae. Eun-jae and Yi-joon gets married and returns to Italy to visit his mother. Yi-joon's father donates his money to charity and spends his time assisting in Yi-joon's restaurant. They all live happily ever after with Jin-sol.