Gwangjang Market
To truly experience Korean food culture, you must visit a traditional market. You can enjoy Korean food that locals like without feeling burdened in a cozy market atmosphere.
Gwangjang Market in Jongno, Seoul, is the first permanent market in Korea with over 100 years of history, so it has a deep historical significance. Drug gimbap, small gimbap the size of a finger, dipped in mustard sauce, is highly addictive and attracts people. Other famous dishes include raw beef and bindaetteok.
Gwangjang Market
Gwangjang Market, Korea's first permanent market, is a paradise for common people's food such as kimbap and bindaetteok.
Tongin Market
Located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Tongin Market offers a variety of foods and unique experiences that you can't find anywhere else. What makes this place special is the 'coin lunch box'.
Coins are brass coins that were used during the Joseon Dynasty. They are no longer used in Korea, but they can be used as currency inside Tongin Market. When customers buy coins, they are given a lunch box that acts as a wallet, and they can walk around the market with this lunch box and exchange the coins for the food they want, enjoying the unique pleasure of doing so. The foods you can
taste at the market are simple but diverse. They include Korean staples such as rice and soup, as well as side dishes such as tteokbokki, tteokgalbi, rice balls, and egg rolls, which are menus that Koreans enjoy eating in their daily lives.
Tongin Market
At Tongin Market, you can enjoy a variety of foods in buffet format, including the market's specialty, stir-fried rice cakes.
Jeonju Makgeolli
Jeonju Makgeolli Alley is famous for its generous servings that allow you to experience the flavors of Jeonju and the warmth of Koreans.
Jeonju Food Tour
Jeonju is a city that even Koreans visit for food tourism. Jeonju has developed a food culture since long ago thanks to fresh seafood caught from the West and South Seas and crops harvested from the fertile land. One
food you must try in Jeonju is Jeonju Bibimbap. It is a dish made with Jeonju bean sprouts, mixed with fresh vegetables such as sesame seeds, ginkgo nuts, pine nuts, chestnuts,
and walnuts. Jeonju Hanjeongsik is a menu where about 30 side dishes such as soups, stews, vegetables, and salted seafood are served on one table, allowing you to experience the generous hospitality of Korea. You can
taste Jeonju makgeolli to your heart's content at the Makgeolli Alleys located in Samcheon-dong, Seosin-dong, and Gyeongwon-dong. If you order a jug of makgeolli, about 20 side dishes are provided.
Another unique food culture of Jeonju is 'Gamaek'. 'Gamaek', which means beer sold at stores, refers to beer purchased at small neighborhood stores or supermarkets, and served with side dishes (mainly squid, dried pollack, and snacks) served there, along with Jeonju's unique seasoning. Thanks to the popularity of Gamaek, Jeonju has been holding the 'Gamaek Festival' every year since 2015. Sokcho
, a seafood paradise Sokcho
, Gangwon-do, which is located along the sea, is a place where abundant seafood from the East Sea gathers. You can taste various foods such as various fish, squid, and shrimp.
Daepohang Shrimp Tempura Alley is a must-see for Sokcho tourists. They fry fresh shrimp on the spot, and the crispy taste is superb. In addition, you can taste squid sashimi, squid sundae, water gomtang, red crab, and grilled fish around Sokcho Tourist and Fishery Market, Gaetbae Pier, Daepohang, and Dongmyeonghang.
Although it is not seafood, fried chicken is also a representative food of Sokcho. Dakgangjeong is a dish made by frying bite-sized pieces of chicken and mixing them with seasoning. Depending on the seasoning, you can choose between spicy and sweet flavors.
Busan Food Tour
Busan is a city that is perfect for a foodie trip, as it has convenient public transportation and is full of food everywhere. Jagalchi Market, famous for its catchphrase, “Oiso, Boiso, Saiso,” is the largest fish market in Korea. It is full of various seafood such as sashimi, crab, lobster, shrimp, shellfish, and grilled fish. Grilled eel, which is whale meat and eel grilled over charcoal, is a delicacy that is hard to find anywhere else.
BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) Street, Nampo-dong Food Alley, and Gukje Market are street food heavens. You must try “seed hotteok,” which is sweet hotteok filled with nuts, “fish cake skewers,” which are skewered fish cakes dipped in soup, and “bibimdangmyeon,” which is noodles and vegetables mixed with spicy seasoning.
Mokpo's Delicacies
Located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, Jeolla-do is a region famous for its delicious food due to its geographical location where the sea and land meet and its mild climate. Mokpo, a port city located in the southwestern part of Jeolla-do, is a representative food city of Jeolla-do along with Jeonju.
Octopus is a specialty caught only in the Mokpo area. It is eaten whole, wrapped around wooden chopsticks while still alive, or boiled with vegetables to make Yeonpo-tang.
Fermented skate has a strong smell and a salty taste, so it is a must-try when you visit Mokpo.
Jeju-do's Local Cuisine
Jeju-do, one of the most popular travel destinations for Koreans, is far from the mainland, so it has developed its own local cuisine. Rather than using various ingredients and adding various seasonings to cook it, most of the dishes are simple, preserving the original flavors of the ingredients.
Representative local foods include 'black pork grilled on charcoal', where chewy black pork is grilled; 'momguk', where pork bones are boiled to make broth and then thickened with seaweed and buckwheat flour; and 'omegi tteok' and 'omegi liquor', made with chajo, which was the staple food of Jeju Islanders in the past. '
Udo peanuts', grown in the sea breeze of Udo, an island within an island, are delicious even when eaten with their shells, and are also a delicacy when enjoyed as 'Udo peanut ice cream' or 'Udo peanut makgeolli'.
Boseong Green Tea Fields
Boseong is the largest tea producing area in Korea with over 4,000 tea gardens. It is worth visiting if you are a tea lover or interested in Korea's traditional tea culture. Most tea gardens offer tea-related experiences such as green tea tasting, tea leaf picking, green tea making, and tea ceremony etiquette. Even if
you don't participate, just enjoying tea at a tea cafe within a tea garden and appreciating the beautiful scenery of the tea gardens is enough to make a satisfying trip.
Jeju Island Squid
If you drive along the coastal road of Jeju Island, you will come across the sight of squid drying in the sea breeze.
Boseong Green Tea Fields
At Boseong’s green tea fields, you can experience Korean tea culture along with green tea tasting.
Samgyeopsal Tour
Samgyeopsal grilling is one of the most popular Korean dining out menus and home cooking menus. Samgyeopsal is the part attached to the pork ribs, and it is called samgyeopsal because the meat and fat overlap three times. In the West, samgyeopsal is smoked, sliced thinly, and eaten with bacon, but in Korea, it is mostly grilled. It is served with lettuce, perilla leaves, pickled onions, and green onion salad, or with a sauce like ssamjang. Since samgyeopsal grilling is not a regional specialty but a popular food, you can find it anywhere in the country.
Rest stop food
In Korea, highway rest stops are much loved as multipurpose spaces that provide more than just a short break on the road. Each rest stop reflects the unique culture of the region, making you feel like you are visiting a new tourist destination.
For example, Andong Rest Area in Andong, famous for its traditional crafts, has an Andong Cultural Experience Center that exhibits crafts, and Yeoju Rest Area in Yeoju, famous for its pottery, has a pottery experience center where tourists can try making pottery. The food that cannot be missed at rest areas is not just for filling hungry stomachs, but also has a variety of menus developed to allow tourists to experience the representative food culture of the region where the rest area is located, providing tourists with the pleasure of simply and conveniently tasting the unique food of the region.
Gangneung Rest Area sells 'Chodang Tofu Hwangtae Haejangguk' made with Chodang Tofu (tofu made with seawater), a Gangneung local dish. Cheongsong Rest Area in Cheongsong, famous for its apple cultivation, offers 'Cheongsong Apple Donkas', and Insam Rest Area in Geumsan offers 'Insam Galbitang' made with ginseng, a specialty of Geumsan.
'So-tteok-so-tteok', a skewer of sausage and rice cake, is a representative snack of rest areas and can be found at most rest areas .
Gangneung Coffee Street
There are about 30 coffee shops near Anmok Beach in Gangneung, and this street is called 'Gangneung Coffee Street' or 'Anmok Coffee Street'. Since 2000, when the first generation of baristas who led Korea's coffee culture settled in Gangneung, Gangneung became a mecca for coffee. Most coffee shops are roastery cafes that roast their own beans, providing a variety of coffee flavors and aromas that differentiate them from franchise coffee shops. As word of mouth spread, Gangneung established itself as a true coffee city. In addition to the
coffee street, Gangneung is also building various coffee-related contents such as a coffee museum, coffee factory, and barista academy.
Gangneung Coffee Street
There are numerous cafes lined up along Gangneung Anmok Beach, each with their own unique character.
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