Korean in Yongsan: Hannam Bugeotguk & More - 14 Local Picks

Bugeotguk, dried pollack soup, usually comes clear and light, but this one rests on a beef-bone broth with big cubes of…

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

Seven kinds of seasoned greens go into the namul bibimbap, each keeping its own aroma under a drizzle of sesame oil. Do…

The bibim-guksu sauce leans sweet, with just enough chili to wake up the appetite, and both noodle dishes come heavily…

The hanu gomtang arrives with rice already sitting in the clear beef broth, so the bowl is evenly hot from the first sp…

Finely minced water dropwort piles over a clear broth and thin slices of beef in the brass bowls of minari gomtang serv…

Mackerel stays on the yeontan briquette grill by the entrance throughout service, so each split fish reaches the table…

Meat arrives already smoked over oak and about half cooked, so it finishes quickly on the tabletop brazier and keeps a…

The restaurant sits partway up a steep lane in Huam-dong, which makes the walk a small climb. There is no parking, and…

Two floors below street level on Itaewon-ro 27-gil, this bar is fitted out like an indoor pojangmacha, the tented stree…

Hybe's headquarters stands next door, and this branch fills the second through fourth floors of the adjacent building;…

Pork belly sizzles around the rim of a hot cast-iron plate while kimchi, tofu and minari (water parsley) cook in the mi…

A five-glass makgeolli sampler lets you taste rice wines from different breweries before committing to a bottle at this…

Despite the name, nothing on the grill is from Jeju: it is thick, aged pork belly, either samgyeopsal or skin-on ogyeop…