How Korea Eats Selects Restaurants
Korea Eats is built as a curated restaurant guide, not a scraped review archive. The goal is to help people compare restaurants by location, cuisine, rating quality, review volume, and practical map context.
Source Data
Korea Eats starts from places the KoreaEats Team has saved on Google Maps over the years. A place removed from the saved places becomes a candidate for removal from the guide. Public business details such as name, category, address, coordinates, rating, review count, and map link fill in each page. Korea Eats does not republish Google review text or claim to replace Google Maps.
Every detail page links back to Google Maps so visitors can confirm current hours, closures, directions, and the latest reviews before visiting.
Comparison Signal
Korea Eats calculates a comparison signal as the first decimal digit of the Google rating, with 5.0 counted as 10, plus review count divided by 100. For example, a 4.3 rating with 400 reviews produces 3 + 4.0 = 7.0.
Among the saved places, a restaurant normally needs a comparison signal of 7.0 or higher to appear in the guide. The signal is not a quality guarantee or a replacement for current map information.
What Gets Excluded
Restaurants with unusually high review counts and near-perfect ratings are treated conservatively because those patterns can include opening-event campaigns or marketing-driven review behavior.
Pages with very small district and cuisine combinations remain available for browsing when useful, but low-density combinations are excluded from indexable sitemap surfaces before ad review.
Editing and Review
Categories, district names, translations, restaurant descriptions, and recommendation links are reviewed and given a final edit by the KoreaEats Team before they are published. The "Edited by KoreaEats Team" line at the end of each restaurant page refers to this process.
Descriptions are written from business details and, where visitor reviews have been saved, facts confirmed in them. They are not claims of a recent visit. Only pages with a dated visit passport show current menu, price, schedule, or reservation facts checked against a linked restaurant, Naver Place, or reservation source, and once its recheck date passes, the passport is taken down from the next site update until it is checked again.
Limitations
Korea Eats is not real-time. Ratings, review counts, menus, opening hours, and closures can change after a data refresh.
Use Korea Eats to shortlist places, then confirm current details through the map link on each restaurant page.
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