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
Restaurant pages start from public business metadata: name, category, address, coordinates, rating, review count, and map link. 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.
Scoring
Restaurants are filtered with a composite score that combines Google rating and log-scaled review count. The log scale prevents large review counts from overwhelming newer but well-rated restaurants.
A restaurant normally needs a score of 7.0 or higher to enter the guide. This keeps the database focused on places with enough public signal to compare.
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.
Editorial Review
The scoring system is not the only layer. Categories, district names, translations, restaurant descriptions, and recommendation links are reviewed in batches by the maintainer.
Descriptions are written to explain what kind of place a restaurant is, where it fits locally, and what a visitor should verify before going.
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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