Nongshim to Host 'High Chef Season 2' Youth Cooking Competition... 3 Million Won Grand Prize

Creative Recipe Competition Centered on Shin Ramyun

On September 9, Nongshim announced that it will hold the "High Chef Season 2" ramen cooking competition for youth nationwide.

High Chef is a cooking competition program where young people interested in cooking can showcase their own creative recipes using Nongshim ramen. This year's competition theme, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Shin Ramyun, is "My Own Creative Ramen Using Shin Ramyun." Any high school student across the country, or youth born between 2008 and 2010, is eligible to participate. Recipes can be submitted through the "Jigeul Jigeul Club" website until September 27.

Nongshim High Chef Season 2. Provided by Nongshim

From among the recipes submitted for the preliminary round, six finalists will be selected and advance to the finals. In the final round, which will take place offline in Seoul on October 9, the finalists will compete in head-to-head matches using their submitted recipes from the preliminaries. The three winners of these matches will proceed to the grand finale. The theme for the grand finale will be revealed on site.

Professional chefs and Nongshim's Research & Development staff will be responsible for judging the offline event. After the grand finale, content featuring the participants' recipes will be released online for public voting. The final ranking will be determined by combining the jury's evaluation and online voting results. The champion will receive a prize of 3 million won, while the second and third place winners will receive 2 million won and 1 million won, respectively.

A Nongshim representative stated, "We hope that through this creative cooking competition using Shin Ramyun and mentoring with Nongshim researchers, participants will be able to experience new possibilities for ramen."

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