KDRAMA- BAKER KING, KIM TAK GU SUMMARY

Also known as: Bread, Love and Dreams
Episodes: 30

Yoon Shi Yoon as Kim Tak Gu
Eugene as Shin Yoo Kyung

Goo family
Jun Kwang Ryul as Goo Il Jong
Jun In Hwa as Seo In Sook
Joo Won as Goo Ma Joon
Choi Ja Hye as Goo Ja Kyung

Yang family
Jang Hang Sun as Oh Doo Yong / Master Pal Bong
Park Sang Myun as Yang In Mok
Hwang Mi Sun as Oh Young Ja
Lee Young Ah as Yang Mi Sun

Jung Sung Mo as Han Seung Jae
Jun Mi Sun as Kim Mi Sun (Tak Goo's mother)
Park Sung Woong as Jo Jin Goo


Gu II Jong, the chairman of Geosung Foods Enterprise, is disappointed that his wife, In Sook has not bore him an heir, a son to inherit his business. She has again given birth to a female baby. She visits a fortune teller and is shocked to hear that her husband will have a son with another woman. That woman is Kim Mi Sun, a maid in the house. In Sook also bears a son, but the father is Han Seung Jae, II Jong’s manager. Manager and In Sook tries to get Mi Sun to abort her baby, but she escapes.

Kim Takgu, the eldest son of Gu Il Jong, now lives with Mi Sun in a small place with another loud speaking aunty and his son. One day, Takgu goes unknowingly to II Jong’s factory, and steals from it.



Takgu feels ashamed and works hard to save enough money to pay back for the bread. At that time, when he introduces himself, II Jong realises that this was the name he suggested years ago for his oldest son. So, he gets his manager to check. Manager Han threatens Mi Sun, and Mu Sun eventually makes her decision to send her son to II Jong.

Meanwhile, II Jong’s supposedly only son, Ma Jun gets disciplined from grandmother. He’s a spoiled , stubborn and with an attitude. His 2 sisters however, are quite indifferent. Mi Sun brings Tak Gu to II Jong’s house, and places him there. Tak Gu cries his heart out, and doesn’t understand his mother’s ways. In Sook, is furious that Tak Gu is in the household. But, II Jong shows attention to Tak Gu, incurring the wrath of Ma Jun.

But then, Mi Sun gets kidnapped, and Takgu runs away from home and spends the next 14 years looking for her. He then finds the man who kidnapped his mother at a baking school owned by Pal Bong. This man later tells him that his mother fell off a cliff. Takgu decides to stay at the baking school and learn baking. Coincidentally . Ma Jun, Takgu’s half-brother also arrives at the school. He hopes to get the recipe of the famous Pal Bong bread, and also to get approval from pal Bong, who happens to be his father’s mentor. But, he lives under a false name, and discovers who Takgu is. Ma Jun tries to sabotage Takgu’s efforts, but Takgu doesn’t give up. While in baking school, Takgu becomes good friends with Mi Sun, granddaughter of Pal Bong.