Korean in South Korea - 681 Restaurant Picks

Water parsley, oyster mushrooms and paper-thin beef go into the pot first at this basement shop in the Hansan Building,…

The baby octopus is stir-fried over direct flame in the kitchen and arrives fully cooked, with nothing to grill at the…

Live hagfish are kept in a tank, cleaned and cooked in the kitchen, then brought to the table ready to eat. The salt-gr…

Jeon Se Gae, a pun on the shop's name, puts three kinds of Korean pancake on one plate so the table can taste several i…

Guests of the Ocean to You Resort, right in front of Sampo Beach, have breakfast at this buffet. The spread is not larg…

Every refill of cheonggukjang is boiled fresh, and the stone-pot rice cooks chewy enough to leave a crust on the bottom…

Soy-marinated crab and the red yangnyeom version are the main event, and the mixed seafood jang adds marinated abalone…

The gamjatang, a pork backbone stew, comes with plenty of meat on the bones and a broth that leans clean and mild rathe…

Soybean-paste broth bubbles away at the table, savory but never sharp with salt. An hourglass timer on each table marks…

Because the fresh-fruit marinade goes on only after the order comes in, the seasoned beef rib meat (yangnyeom so-galbis…

Chilled raw beef tossed evenly in seasoning makes the yukhoe springy and moist. A second plate of yukhoe tangtangi or s…

A bamboo basket (sokuri) packed with side dishes surrounds a plate of jeyuk-bokkeum, spicy stir-fried pork, in the Soku…

Black-toned walls and wide gaps between tables keep conversations private at this Korean pub near Sadang Station, and r…

Bone-in short rib suyuk, boiled beef ribs for two or three, comes with the meat already pulled off the bone, sitting ov…

Finding the door takes a moment: the restaurant is in the basement of an apartment-complex shopping arcade. An order of…

This second-floor Korean restaurant near Gukje Market lists vegan ramyeon and a tofu steak as separate dishes. Duruchig…

Floor-to-ceiling windows run up both levels of this Myeongdong shop near Euljiro 1-ga Station, and further inside the t…

Every table sits in its own walled or partitioned room, which keeps conversations private just off the busy streets of…

The stone-plate yukjeon, egg-dipped pan-fried beef, uses noticeably thicker beef than most jeon pubs and comes with a f…

Solo diners set the order and doneness of each piece on a grill of their own at every seat, with no shared hot plate. S…

Fish roasted in a 500-degree oven arrives on a tabletop induction plate, and it stays hot while you scoop rice from the…

The sauce on the dakbokkeumtang, spicy braised chicken, cooks down thick and soaks deep into the meat, and the boneless…

Food YouTuber Hamzy opened this spot near Jongno 3-ga Station, with hanok-inspired decor built around makgeolli and anj…

Clean interiors and an in-house restroom set this jeon and traditional-liquor bar apart from the crowded old stalls of…