In 2006, the year she turned 42, she became a school lunch cook hired by an education office.
The breakthrough yearThe year she turned 60, she retired as an elementary school lunch cook at the end of August and became known when Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars, released on Sept. 17, featured her as the “Master of School Meals.” She made the final 15 and was eliminated in the episodes released on Oct. 1. She then began a collaboration with CU, appeared on MBC’s Hangout with Yoo in November, and gave a K-school lunch live cooking show in Shanghai. CU’s collaboration products went on sale in December.
The year she turned 61, she appeared on MBC’s Puk Swimyeon Dahaengiya in February and took part in the KFHI Hope Table campaign. In April she appeared as a masked singer on MBC’s King of Mask Singer, and in July in a Jeju Samdasu campaign video. In September, 8 convenience meals made with Ottel came out.
The year she turned 62, she served meals at POSCO’s free meal center, Nanumui Jip, in May and was head judge at the Camping Cooking Festival in June.
In August she said she would teach as an adjunct professor in a new Dong-A University department from September.
Lee Mi-young (born 1964) became a school lunch cook in 2006, the year she turned 42, and retired on Aug 30, 2024, the year she turned 60. She became known on Sep 17, 2024, the year she turned 60, when she appeared as the “Master of School Meals” on Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars.
Ages are by calendar year (the year minus the birth year), birthdays aside.