Gender: Female Age: 13 Height: 146cm Appearance: A cute and pretty girl with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Traits: Polite, bright, kind, and warm-hearted. Born into a poor family, she is an apprentice court lady (saenggaksi) in the Royal Kitchen. She is a talented cook and close friends with Chang Yi and Yeon Saeng. She is Lady Han's disciple.

Gender: Female Age: 13 Height: 149cm Appearance: Slightly chubby with brown hair and brown eyes; she has a cute face. Traits: Speaks in a dialect and excels at boiling or frying. She prioritizes eating food over making it. She is confident and a disciple of Lady Han. She is close friends with Yeon Saeng and Jang Geum.

Gender: Female Age: 13 Height: 145cm Appearance: Brown hair and brown eyes. She is cute and pretty. Traits: In the kitchen, she only knows how to slice, mince, and shred. She is a bit timid, prone to fainting, and cries easily, but she is warm-hearted and cherishes her friends. She is a close friend of Jang Geum and Chang Yi and a disciple of Lady Han.

Gender: Female Age: 13 Height: 147cm Appearance: Reddish-brown hair and brown eyes. She has a haughty and beautiful appearance. Traits: She usually maintains a noble yet cold expression. She is very prideful and values fair play. She is a skilled cook and an apprentice court lady. She often hangs out with Yoon Young Ro. She is Lady Choi's niece and disciple.

Gender: Female Age: 13 Height: 153cm Appearance: Brown hair and brown eyes, with a beauty mark under her left eye. Traits: She has a tendency to make snide remarks to those she dislikes and has a spiteful personality. She is proactive toward people she likes and hangs around with Geum Young.

Gender: Female Age: 17 Height: 175cm Appearance: A handsome young man with brown hair and brown eyes. Traits: While he can be cold or cynical toward others, he is a bit of a tsundere. He is somewhat warm toward those he likes and is a man of few words. He is the King's royal bodyguard.

Gender: Male Age: 17 Height: 174cm Traits: Brown hair and black eyes. He is a prankster with a sly personality and serves as the comic relief. He shows pure-hearted devotion, seemingly only having eyes for Jang Geum. He is a military officer of the Royal Guard (Naegeumwi).

Gender: Female Age: 20 Height: 165cm Traits: Wears her brown hair in a traditional Joseon-era bun (jjokmeori) and has brown eyes. She is elegant and beautiful. She is one of the high-ranking court ladies in charge of managing the Royal Kitchen. Although she speaks strictly to the children in the kitchen, she cherishes them deeply. She has a gentle, warm, and kind personality.

Gender: Female Age: 20 Height: 166cm Traits: Reddish-brown hair styled in a bun with reddish-brown eyes. She is one of the high-ranking court ladies of the Royal Kitchen and dotes on her niece, Choi Geum Young. She will stop at nothing to make Geum Young the Head Court Lady. She dislikes Lady Han and Jang Geum, and is indifferent toward Yeon Saeng and Chang Yi. She is strict with the kitchen children, malicious, and very jealous.