cinefound - Season 1

Episode 200 - 200-Episode Special Part 2

First Aired: December. 29,2021

Special episode to check-up on restaurants they have consulted over the years. The last story of Alley Restaurant.

Episode 199 - 200-Episode Special Part 1

First Aired: December. 22,2021

Special year-end episode to check-up on restaurants they have consulted over the past year.

Episode 198 - Korean University 5

First Aired: December. 15,2021

The Tomato restaurant changes the name of their menu, and opens to customers again. IVE members come to taste the improved Half-chicken Half-rice menus. Rapper Lee Young-ji evaluates the new cheese hot-pot dishes, and Baek jong-won comes in for the final evaluation on the tonkatsu sauce.

Episode 197 - Korean University 4

First Aired: December. 08,2021

Episode 196 - Korean University 3

First Aired: December. 01,2021

Students from the YKI Eating Group comes to taste the new menus at the cheese rice bowl restaurant. Meanwhile, the half-chicken half-fried rice owner has a secret consultation with Baek Jong-won while her husband cooks the improved dishes.

Episode 195 - Korean University 2

First Aired: November. 24,2021

Baek Jong-won continues the first evaluation with the half-chicken half-fried rice restaurant and the tomato stir-fried pork rice bowl restaurant. The cheese rice bowl restaurant owner presents her homework assignment to Baek Jong-won.

Episode 194 - Cheorwon 5, Korean University 1

First Aired: November. 10,2021

Episode 193 - Cheorwon 4

First Aired: November. 03,2021

Episode 192 - Cheorwon 3

First Aired: October. 27,2021

Episode 191 - Cheorwon 2

First Aired: October. 20,2021

Episode 190 - Cheorwon 1

First Aired: October. 13,2021

37th alley, Cheorwon. The three restaurants are beansprout gukbap restaurant, a shabu shabu restaurant with an unusual menu, and jeongol kalguksu restaurant.

Episode 189 - Jeju Island Project 7

First Aired: October. 06,2021

It's finally time to open the restaurants, but are the new restaurants owners ready for customers?

Episode 188 - Jeju Island Project 6

First Aired: September. 29,2021

After the four finalists chose their shop location, signed the contract, chose their menu, and how they will renovate their new shop, their new restaurants are now ready to open. The final evaluation will be done by Baek Jong-won, along with disqualified contestants that live in Jeju island.

Episode 187 - Jeju Island Project 5

First Aired: September. 15,2021

The remaining 3 contestants compete in the evening round. The results are announced, and the four finalists chose their resetaurant location and their menu.

Episode 186 - Jeju Island Project 4

First Aired: September. 08,2021

Contestant Ryu Ik-ha drops out of the competition before the last mission. The remaining contestants will compete by imitating or improving the dishes served by Baek Jong-won to be the final 4 that gets to open their restaurants. The dishes are black pork bahn mi, black pork kimbap, black pork ramyun, and black pork dumplings.

Episode 185 - Jeju Island Project 3

First Aired: September. 01,2021

The contestants are tasked with selling every item within 30 minutes.

Episode 184 - Jeju Island Project 2

First Aired: August. 25,2021

The contestants continue with their first evaluation mission: cooking their signature menu for Baek Jong-won.

Episode 183 - Jeju Island Project 1

First Aired: August. 18,2021

Instead of revitalizing back alleys, why not create new ones? 8 out of 50 teams were chosen to be evaluated to become one of 4 new business owners in Geumak village, Jeju island.

Episode 182 - Seokbadae Alley 5

First Aired: August. 11,2021

The dakgalbi restaurant finishes the new sauce, and strict evaluators come for the final evaluation of the restaurant. The meat noodle restaurent is ready to re-open. The kimbap restaurant receive their first customers.

Episode 181 - Seokbadae Alley 4

First Aired: August. 04,2021

The Jeju meat noodle restaurant tries serving two different broths to see which ones customers would like better. Jadu, singer of the famous Kimbap song, comes to taste the improved kimbap menus.

Episode 180 - Seokbadae Alley 3

First Aired: July. 28,2021

Baek Jong-won finally tastes Chuncheon-style dakgalbi after two weeks of cleaning the restaurant, but later finds something about the restaurant owner from the staff. After deciding to change their menu, the mother and daughter team tries making 90 kimbabs as fast as they can.

Episode 179 - Seokbadae Alley 2

First Aired: July. 21,2021

Baek Jong-won calls the owner of the Chuncheon dakgalbi restaurant back without even first tasting the dish. The meat noodle restaurant gets it's first evaluation. Mother and daughter restaurant decides to change their menu to only kimbab, and comes up with five unique kimbabs for Baek Jong-won and the Sparrows to try.

Episode 178 - Seokbadae Alley 1

First Aired: July. 14,2021

35th alley: Seokbadae Alley in Hanam, Gyeonggi province. The alley used to be the centre of the area. Now, because of subway shopping areas were developed, there are not as much people. The restaurants that will be joining in this alley is the Chuncheon-style dakgalbi restaurant, meat noodle restaurant, and mother-and-daughter snack house.

Episode 177 - Supsongmaeul Alley 4

First Aired: July. 07,2021

Girls Generation Yuri and Hyoyeon evaluates the new pasta menus. The pho broth still tastes heavy. THe monkfish restaurant makes a new sauce based on Baek Jong-won's suggestions.

Episode 176 - Supsongmaeul Alley 3

First Aired: June. 30,2021

Pasta restaurant decides on a new direction after their competition. Monkfish restaurant develops a new sauce. Pho restaurant refines their new special menu.

Episode 175 - Supsongmaeul Alley 2

First Aired: June. 23,2021

Baek Jong-won evaluates the Pho restaurant's special dish. The hosts compares famous monkfish jjim restaurants. Visual Pasta restaurant has a competition with the previous pasta restaurant from Gildong that was on the show.

Episode 174 - Supsongmaeul Alley 1

First Aired: June. 16,2021

34th alley: Supsongmaeul Alley, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. Three restaurants that will be joining are Monkfish & Cod Jjim restaurant that has butter as their secret ingredient, Visual Pasta restaurant, and Spicy Pho restaurant.

Episode 173 - Bucheon Car Repair Shop Alley 5

First Aired: June. 09,2021

Tonkatsu owner solves the soggy tonkatsu problem. Hamburger and sandwich restaurants prepare for their final evaluation.

Episode 172 - Bucheon Car Repair Shop Alley 4

First Aired: June. 02,2021

Tonkatsu shop owner decides to close his shop and go to Jeju island to learn with the master. Kwak Dong-yeon evaluates the hamburger restaurant. Baek Jong-won invents all meat, all vege sandwichs for the sandwich restaurant.

Episode 171 - Bucheon Car Repair Shop Alley 3

First Aired: May. 26,2021

The tonkatsu keeps getting better with Baek Jong-won's help, but somehow the fried tonkatsu keeps getting soggy. He suggests the owner go to learn with the master of tonkatsu in Jeju island. Baek Jong won tastes all the sauces the sandwich shop owners came up with. Geum Sae-rok addresses a problem with the burger restaurant, and Baek Jong-won tests the new burger menus.

Episode 170 - Bucheon Car Repair Shop Alley 2

First Aired: May. 19,2021

Episode 169 - Bucheon Car Repair Shop Alley 1

First Aired: May. 12,2021

33nd alley in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do. New main MC, Geum Sae-rok. Will she pass the test to become chef Baek Jong-won's left hand?

Episode 168 - Oryu-dong Alley 4

First Aired: May. 05,2021

Final week in Oryu-dong alley. Kim Se-jeong evaluates the budae jjigae recipe. The batter doesn't stick to the chicken gizzard. ITZY members try potato balls. Final episode with Jung In-sun.

Episode 167 - Oryu-dong Alley 3

First Aired: April. 28,2021

32nd alley in Oryu-dong, Guro-gu

Episode 166 - Oryu-dong Alley 2

First Aired: April. 21,2021

32nd alley in Oryu-dong, Guro-gu

Episode 165 - Oryu-dong Alley 1

First Aired: April. 14,2021

32nd alley in Oryu-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul. The area that fueled the manufacturing industry of South Korea in the 1980's, now turned a modern digital industrial park. The three restaurants are: Budae jjigae restaurant, potato dough ball restaurant, and old-fashioned chicken restaurant.

Episode 164 - Gil-dong Alley 4

First Aired: April. 07,2021

Last evaluation for restaurants in Gil-dong Alley. A pollack jjim restaurant that doesn't want to serve pollack jjim, ddak galbi restaurant owner decides to change the sauce, and a sudden emergency with the pasta restaurant.

Episode 163 - Gil-dong Alley 3

First Aired: March. 31,2021

31st Alley: Gil-dong Alley, Gangdong-gu, Seoul

Episode 162 - Gil-dong Alley 2

First Aired: March. 24,2021

31st Alley: Gil-dong Alley, Gangdong-gu, Seoul

Episode 161 - Gil-dong Alley 1

First Aired: March. 17,2021

31st Alley: Gil-dong Alley, Gangdong-gu, Seoul Named for being lucky (gil = lucky), the restaurants here aren't donig so well. What is Baek Jong-won's first impressions of the restaurants and it's owners. Dakgalbi restaurant that opened right before the pandemic quarantine. Casual Italian restaurant whose owner is a former judo athlete. Seoul's only Young pollack jjim restaurant.

Episode 160 - Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu 5

First Aired: March. 10,2021

Episode 159 - Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu 4

First Aired: March. 03,2021

Episode 158 - Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu 3

First Aired: February. 24,2021

Episode 157 - Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu 2

First Aired: February. 17,2021

30th Alley: Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu

Episode 156 - Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu 1

First Aired: February. 10,2021

30th Alley: Alley in Deungchon-dong, Kangseo-gu

Episode 155 - Moran Station Back Alley, Seongnam 4

First Aired: February. 03,2021

29th Alley: Seongnam Moran Station Back Alley.

Episode 154 - Moran Station Back Alley, Seongnam 3

First Aired: January. 27,2021

29th Alley: Seongnam Moran Station Back Alley.

Episode 153 - Moran Station Back Alley, Seongnam 2

First Aired: January. 20,2021

29th Alley: Seongnam Moran Station Back Alley.

Episode 152 - Moran Station Back Alley, Seongnam 1

First Aired: January. 13,2021

29th Alley: Seongnam Moran Station Back Alley.

Episode 151 - Cheer Up, Small Business Owners! 2020 Winter Special 4

First Aired: January. 06,2021

Episode 150 - Cheer Up, Small Business Owners! 2020 Winter Special 3

First Aired: December. 30,2020

Episode 149 - Cheer Up, Small Business Owners! 2020 Winter Special 2

First Aired: December. 23,2020

Episode 148 - Cheer Up, Small Business Owners! 2020 Winter Special

First Aired: December. 16,2020

Deopjuk restaurant Maggeolli restaurant in Daejeon Grandma's Noodle restaurant in Pyeongtaek

Episode 147 - Sagajeong Market Alley 4

First Aired: December. 09,2020

The 28th story: Sagajeong, an alley in crisis. Sagajeong Market, Jungnang-gu, Seoul. Kimchi Jjigae Delivery restaurant 10,000 won Monkfish Jjim restaurant Whole Chicken Stew restaurant

Episode 146 - Sagajeong Market Alley 3

First Aired: December. 02,2020

The 28th story: Sagajeong, an alley in crisis. Sagajeong Market, Jungnang-gu, Seoul. Kimchi Jjigae Delivery restaurant 10,000 won Monkfish Jjim restaurant Whole Chicken Stew restaurant

Episode 145 - Sagajeong Market Alley 2

First Aired: November. 25,2020

The 28th story: Sagajeong, an alley in crisis. Sagajeong Market, Jungnang-gu, Seoul. Kimchi Jjigae Delivery restaurant 10,000 won Monkfish Jjim restaurant Whole Chicken Stew restaurant

Episode 144 - Sagajeong Market Alley 1

First Aired: November. 18,2020

The 28th story: Sagajeong, an alley in crisis. Sagajeong Market, Jungnang-gu, Seoul. Kimchi Jjigae Delivery restaurant 10,000 won Monkfish Jjim restaurant Whole Chicken Stew restaurant

Episode 143 - Sangdo-dong Alley 5

First Aired: November. 11,2020