The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between empathy leadership and organizational attachment as a result variable of organizational commitment in the hotel culinary department and conduct empirical studies on the role of empathy leadership and organizational attachment. The data were collected from employees who work in culinary department at a 5-star franchise hotel and Local hotel located in the Seoul metropolitan area. Because it is difficult to conduct a survey through face-to-face contact with employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the online survey was conducted from February 1 to February 28, 2020. A total of 330 questionnaires through online were distributed and 268 employees completed the survey. Of the 268 returned responses, 27 responses were not usable due to missing information. Thus, a total of 241 responses were used for analysis. The study results, First, it has been shown that the empathy leadership of culinary department in hotel companies has a significant positive impact on the organizational attachment. Second, it has been shown that organizational attachment has a positive effect on organizational commitment. Third, empathy leadership of hotel companies' culinary department has a positive impact organizational commitment. Fourth, organizational attachment has a positive (+) mediating effect in the relationship between empathy leadership and organizational commitment in culinary department.