Moono is chef Hoyoung Kim's follow-up to his Michelin-starred restaurant Jua, a more approachable à la carte Korean restaurant on the edge of Manhattan's Koreatown that trades a fixed tasting menu for a tightly curated selection of dishes — …
Joo Ok is the rare restaurant that moved its entire Michelin-starred operation from Seoul to New York rather than simply opening a new branch — chef Shin Chang-ho closed the original Seoul location in December 2023, relocated roughly half his staff …
Atomix, the two-Michelin-star restaurant chef Junghyun "JP" Park opened with his wife Ellia in 2018, has become one of New York's most consistently coveted reservations, ranking as high as No. 6 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants l…
Jungsik became the first Korean restaurant in the United States to earn three Michelin stars, a milestone reached in December 2024 that broke a 12-year drought in which no new restaurant had entered New York's three-star ranks since Eleven Madis…
Cote is the Korean steakhouse in New York's Flatiron District that became the world's first Korean barbecue restaurant to earn a Michelin star — a title it's held every single year since opening in 2017, making it arguably the most influ…
Hanjeongsik, Korea's full-course traditional meal format built around a table crowded with dozens of small side dishes alongside a central protein and rice, takes on a genuinely different character depending on which city serves it — Jeonju'…
While Incheon's Chinatown gets most of the credit as jjajangmyeon's birthplace, Korea's other major cluster of century-old Chinese restaurants sits in central Seoul, in the neighborhood around the former Chinese legation near Myeongdong …
Korea's biggest seafood markets share the same basic format — pick your seafood live from a tank, have it butchered on the spot, then carry it upstairs or next door to eat as sashimi — but each of the country's major markets has its own dist…
Gukbap, rice served directly in a hot soup rather than on the side, takes on distinctly different regional identities across Korea — nowhere more so than in Busan's dwaeji-gukbap (pork soup) and Jeonju's kongnamul-gukbap (bean sprout soup), …
Naengmyeon, Korea's cold buckwheat noodle dish, splits into two distinct regional traditions — the subtle, broth-forward Pyongyang style and the spicier, sauce-tossed Hamheung style — and a handful of Seoul restaurants tracing back to refugees w…
Ppangji sullye — literally "bread pilgrimage" — is Korea's name for the growing food-travel trend of seeking out the country's most iconic bakeries, many of them decades-old institutions that have become as central to their hometow…
My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀), the 2001 Korean romantic comedy that became one of the earliest and biggest drivers of the Hallyu wave across Asia, was also the first Korean film to ever sell its Hollywood remake rights — and yet when that remake finally a…
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