# Link: Eat, Love, Kill

Link: Eat, Love, Kill (Korean: 링크: 먹고 사랑하라, 죽이게) is a 2022 South Korean television series starring Yeo Jin-goo and Moon Ka-young. It aired on tvN from June 6 to July 26, 2022, every Monday and Tuesday at 22:30 (KST) for 16 episodes. It is also available for streaming on Disney+ in selected regions.

## Synopsis

Eun Gye-hoon (Yeo Jin-goo) and his twin sister can feel each other's feelings even if they are far apart; the siblings called this phenomenon 'link'. Gye-hoon, who has never felt a link since his sister's disappearance 18 years ago, suddenly starts to share a woman's (Moon Ka-young) feelings and experiences all her joys, sorrows, and pains.

## Cast
### Main

* Yeo Jin-goo as Eun Gye-hoon
    A sous chef at a high-end restaurant. He comes to Jihwa-dong, his childhood neighborhood, to open a restaurant.
* Moon Ka-young as Noh Da-hyun
    A job seeker who works as a trainee at Jihwayang restaurant.

### Supporting
#### People around Eun Gye-hoon

* Park Bo-kyung as Jang Mi-sook
    Eun Gye-hoon's mother.
* Kwon Hyuk as Eun Cheol-ho
    Eun Gye-hoon's father.
* Ahn Se-bin as Eun Gye-young
    Eun Gye-hoon's fraternal twin sister who went missing at the age of 10.
* Woo Mi-hwa as Jang Mi-seon
    Eun Gye-hoon's aunt.

#### People around Noh Da-hyun

* Kim Ji-young as Hong Bok-hee
    Noh Da-hyun's mother and owner of Chun-ok Hot Pot Restaurant.
* Ye Soo-jung as Na Chun-ok
    Noh Da-hyun's paternal grandmother.

#### People at Jihwa Police Substation

* Song Duk-ho as Ji Won-tak/Han Sejin
    A police officer and Hwang Min-jo's ex-boyfriend.
* Lee Bom-so-ri as Hwang Min-jo
    A sergeant rank police officer and Ji Won-tak's ex-girlfirend.
* Kim Chan-hyung as Ahn Jung-ho
    An Inspector at Jihwa Police Substation.
* Yoo Sung-joo as Seo Young-hwan
    Chief at Jihwa Police Substation.
* Yoo Dong-hoon as Bong Soon-kyung
    A police officer at Jihwa Police Substation.

#### People at Jihwayang Restaurant

* Lee Suk-hyeong as Cha Jin-ho
    A junior chef of Eun Gye-hoon.
* Lee Bom as Lee Eun-jeong
    Lee Da-jung's elder sister who starts working at Jihwayang.

#### Jihwa-dong residents

* Yoo Jung-ho Kim Min-cheol
    A taxi driver, Park Seon-hwa's husband.
* Park Ji-ah as Park Seon-hwa
    Kim Min-cheol's wife.
* Yoon Sang-hwa as Jo Dong-nam
    A construction worker, Yang Dong-sook's husband.
* Kim Kwak-kyung-hee as Yang Dong-sook
    Jo Dong-nam's wife.
* Jung Yeon-shim as Kang Mi-jin
    A friend of Hong Bok-hee and owner of Mijin's Estate.
* Kim Hyun as Jo Jae-suk
    An aerobics instructor and Go Chang-soo's wife.
* Choi Jae-seop as Go Chang-soo
    Jo Jae-suk's husband who runs an adult game room in Jihwa-dong.
* Lee Gyu-hoe as Han Eui-chan
    A man who wanders around the neighbourhood. 18 years ago, he was Eun Gye-young's piano teacher who became a suspect of her disappearance.

#### Others

* Shin Jae-hwi as Lee Jin-geun
    A person who stalks Noh Da-hyun.

### Special appearance

* Kim Won-hae as Antonio (Ep. 1)

## Production
### Casting

The series reunited Yeo Jin-goo and Moon Ga-young after the 2010 KBS historical drama The Reputable Family, in which they played the childhood counterparts of the protagonists.

### Filming

On March 22, 2022, it was announced that filming had been temporarily suspended after Yeo Jin-goo underwent a PCR test for COVID-19. A day later, it was announced that his test result was positive, and he would be absent from filming. It was also announced that filming would resume for other scenes that don't have Yeo's involvement.

## Viewership

| Season | Season | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Average |
| Season | Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Average |
| | 1 | 767 | 655 | 525 | 528 | 493 | 532 | 345 | 479 | 398 | 478 | 364 | 448 | 306 | 384 | 331 | 521 | 472 |
Average TV viewership ratings :
| Ep. | Original broadcast date | Average audience share (Nielsen Korea) | Average audience share (Nielsen Korea) |
| Ep. | Original broadcast date | Nationwide | Seoul |
| 1 | June 6, 2022 | 3.124% (1st) | 3.280% (1st) |
| 2 | June 6, 2022 | 3.098% (2nd) | 3.342% (2nd) |
| 3 | June 13, 2022 | 2.280% (2nd) | 1.947% (2nd) |
| 4 | June 14, 2022 | 2.562% (2nd) | 2.659% (2nd) |
| 5 | June 20, 2022 | 1.933% (2nd) | 2.032% (2nd) |
| 6 | June 21, 2022 | 2.533% (2nd) | 2.398% (2nd) |
| 7 | June 27, 2022 | 1.469% (5th) | 1.192% (6th) |
| 8 | June 28, 2022 | 2.133% (2nd) | 1.847% (2nd) |
| 9 | July 4, 2022 | 1.748% (2nd) | 1.465% (2nd) |
| 10 | July 5, 2022 | 2.234% (2nd) | 1.944% (2nd) |
| 11 | July 11, 2022 | 1.467% (4th) | N/A |
| 12 | July 12, 2022 | 1.873% (2nd) | 1.728% (2nd) |
| 13 | July 18, 2022 | 1.423% (5th) | 1.167% (7th) |
| 14 | July 19, 2022 | 2.021% (2nd) | 1.708% (3rd) |
| 15 | July 25, 2022 | 1.610% (2nd) | 1.162% (5th) |
| 16 | July 26, 2022 | 2.228% (2nd) | 1.881% (2nd) |
| Average | Average | 2.108% | — |
| In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest published ratings and the red numbers represent the highest published ratings. N/A denotes ratings that were not released. This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC, and EBS). ||||