| Alt Name: | Let's Have Dinner Together? | ||||||
| Native Name: |
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| Genre: | Romance[1] | ||||||
| Developer: | Park Jae-beom | ||||||
| Director: | Ko Jae-hyun | ||||||
| Opentheme: | "Dinner Mate Open Title" by Jonghyuk Jeon | ||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||
| Num Episodes: | 32 (2 episodes per day) | ||||||
| Camera: | Single-camera | ||||||
| Runtime: | 35 minutes | ||||||
| Company: | Victory Contents | ||||||
| Network: | MBC TV |
Dinner Mate[2] is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Song Seung-heon, Seo Ji-hye, Lee Ji-hoon, and Son Na-eun, and based on the 2013 webtoon Would You Like To Have Dinner Together? by Park Si-in. The series is about an unexpected dinner between two strangers in a restaurant, Woo Do-hee (played by Seo Ji-hye) and Kim Hae-kyung (played by Song Seung-heon). The two happen to have dinner together at a random place and decide to become dinner partners.[3] The drama was aired by MBC TV on Mondays and Tuesdays from May 25 to July 14, 2020.[4] [5] It was also available globally on iQIYI with multi-language subtitles.
Woo Do-hee (Seo Ji-hye), a producer at a digital content company, and Kim Hae-kyung (Song Seung-heon), a psychiatrist, meet by coincidence and end up eating dinner together. Later, they meet again by coincidence and decided to become "dinner mates". With no knowledge of each other's personal details (name, occupation, etc.), they only meet up to eat dinner and talk.
The series is the third collaboration between director Ko Jae-hyun and actor Song Seung-heon after Black and Player.
| Dinner Mate OST | |
| Type: | soundtrack |
| Artist: | Various Artists |
| Released: | 2020 |
| Genre: | Soundtrack |
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nielsen Korea[6] | ||||
| Nationwide | Seoul | |||
| 1 | May 25, 2020 | 4.8% | ||
| 2 | 6.5% | |||
| 3 | May 26, 2020 | 5.7% | 6.4% | |
| 4 | 5.9% | 6.8% | ||
| 5 | June 1, 2020 | 4.1% | 5.2% | |
| 6 | 4.8% | |||
| 7 | June 2, 2020 | 4.4% | 5.1% | |
| 8 | 4.9% | rowspan="4" | ||
| 9 | June 8, 2020 | 3.5% | ||
| 10 | 4.4% | |||
| 11 | June 9, 2020 | 3.4% | ||
| 12 | 3.9% | 4.3% | ||
| 13 | June 15, 2020 | 3.0% | rowspan="3" | |
| 14 | 3.7% | |||
| 15 | June 16, 2020 | 3.0% | ||
| 16 | 4.2% | 4.6% | ||
| 17 | June 22, 2020 | 3.5% | ||
| 18 | 4.9% | 5.2% | ||
| 19 | June 23, 2020 | 3.4% | ||
| 20 | 4.8% | 5.1% | ||
| 21 | June 29, 2020 | 3.3% | ||
| 22 | 4.8% | 5.0% | ||
| 23 | June 30, 2020 | 3.0% | rowspan="10" | |
| 24 | 4.4% | |||
| 25 | July 6, 2020 | |||
| 26 | 3.1% | |||
| 27 | July 7, 2020 | 2.6% | ||
| 28 | 3.4% | |||
| 29 | July 13, 2020 | 2.9% | ||
| 30 | 3.7% | |||
| 31 | July 14, 2020 | 2.9% | ||
| 32 | 4.3% | |||
| Average | ||||
| Year | Category | Nominee / Work | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBC Drama Awards | 2020 | Drama of the Year | Dinner Mate | |||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday-Tuesday Miniseries / Short Drama | Song Seung-heon | |||||
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday-Tuesday Miniseries / Short Drama | Lee Ji-hoon | |||||
| Best New Actress | ||||||
| Best Couple Award | Song Seung-heon and Seo Ji-hye | |||||
| Seoul International Drama Awards | 2021 | Outstanding Korean Drama | Dinner Mate | [7] [8] |