Where to eat in Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
Jeonju is famous across Korea for its food. Around the Hanok Village and Nambu Market you can eat the city's bibimbap, bean sprout soup for breakfast, blood sausage and handmade choco pies, then finish with a kettle of makgeolli and a table of small dishes.
13 places our guide covers in Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market, with what to order, how long the wait is and how to eat each dish.
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Gajok Hoegwan 가족회관
Home-style meals · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 1979
A Century Store bibimbap house opened in 1979 and now in its third generation. It's known for a bowl served in brassware, with a generous set of side dishes. Yukhoe bibimbap and a hot stone-pot version are also on the menu, and it's a dependable choice in the center of town.
Try: Jeonju-bibimbap
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Hanguk-jip 한국집
Home-style meals · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 1952
One of Jeonju's founding bibimbap houses, near the Hanok Village, and running since 1952. Jeonju bibimbap is the city's famous dish: rice cooked in beef broth, then topped with a colorful spread of seasoned vegetables and a dab of gochujang. Choose the regular version or yukhoe bibimbap, topped with raw beef.
Try: Jeonju-bibimbap
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Owonjip (Main) 오원집 본점
Korean BBQ · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 1984
A Jeonju late-night favorite since 1984. Spicy pork is grilled over briquettes until smoky, then served with small gimbap, so you put a piece of pork on each slice. It's simple, fiery and a local favorite, and a stir-fried squid with noodles is the other order.
Try: Yeontanbul dwaeji-gui (briquette-grilled spicy pork)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🍫
PNB Pungnyeon Bakery (Main) PNB풍년제과 본점
Desserts · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 1951
Jeonju's old bakery, in business since 1951, and the home of the handmade choco pie that nearly every visitor carries home: soft cake with cream, coated in chocolate. There are several shops in town, and boxes make good gifts. A nice stop after a Hanok Village walk.
Try: Sujae choco-pie (handmade choco pie)
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Sambaekjip 삼백집
Soups & stews · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 1947
The historic name in Jeonju bean sprout soup, going since about 1947. The name means 'house of 300': the story goes that it closed for the day after selling 300 bowls. Here the egg is cooked in the soup, unlike the separate egg of the Nambu Market style, so it's a good comparison. Try moju too.
Try: Kongnamul-gukbap (bean sprout soup with rice)
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Veteran Kalguksu 베테랑칼국수
Noodles · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 1977
A Jeonju institution by Jeonju Cathedral and the Hanok Village, open since 1977. Its kalguksu is unusual: thick and almost porridge-like, topped with egg, perilla seed and dried seaweed flakes. Spicy jjolmyeon (chewy cold noodles) and dumplings round out a short menu.
Try: Kalguksu (thick noodle soup)
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Yetchon Makgeolli 옛촌막걸리
Pubs · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market · Since 2002
Jeonju's makgeolli tradition is unique: you order a kettle of rice wine, and it comes with a table full of small dishes. This Seosin-dong house, open since 2002, is known as an original of that style. Order a table set. It's a short taxi ride from the Hanok Village.
Try: Makgeolli hansang (rice wine with a table of dishes)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🍲
Hyundaeok (Nambu Market) 현대옥 남부시장점
Soups & stews · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
A small Blue Ribbon counter in Nambu Market, serving the market style of kongnamul-gukbap, in business since the late 1970s. The soup comes with a separate soft-poached egg, and you can add squid. Eating at the old counter while the market wakes up is the best way to start a Jeonju morning.
Try: Kongnamul-gukbap (bean sprout soup with rice)
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Ilpumhyang 일품향
Korean-Chinese · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
A Blue Ribbon Chinese-Korean restaurant about 70 years old, near the old guesthouse Gaeksa. Jeonju has its own noodle: mul-jajang, a glossy, savory seafood sauce over noodles, nothing like the black kind. Fried dumplings here have been praised on Korea's Master of Living show.
Try: Mul-jajang (Jeonju-style seafood noodles)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🍺
Jeonil Gabo 전일갑오
Pubs · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
Jeonju's best-known gamaek, a local tradition: a corner shop that became a beer spot. You drink beer from the fridge at a simple table, and the snack to order is dried pollack (hwangtae) grilled over briquettes, with a dipping sauce. It's a little rough around the edges, and that's the charm. It's about 50 years old.
Try: Hwangtae-gui (grilled dried pollack)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🍲
Jo Jeom-rye Nammun Pi-sundae 조점례남문피순대
Soups & stews · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
Nambu Market's famous blood sausage shop. Jeonju's pi-sundae is dark, soft and rich, made with plenty of pork blood. Have it on a plate, or in the rice soup, sundae-gukbap. It opens early and it's a true market meal, if you're an adventurous eater.
Try: Sundae-gukbap (blood sausage soup with rice)
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Seongmidang 성미당
Home-style meals · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
A third-generation bibimbap house, and regulars point to its yukhoe bibimbap. Hwangpo-muk, a yellow mung bean jelly, is one of the Jeonju touches.
Try: Yukhoe-bibimbap (with raw beef)
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Waengi Kongnamul Gukbap 왱이콩나물국밥
Soups & stews · Jeonju Hanok Village & Nambu Market
Jeonju's other great dish is kongnamul-gukbap, a clear bean sprout soup with rice, loved as a breakfast and a hangover cure. Waengi is the big-name shop near the Hanok Village, with a hill of sprouts in every bowl. A soft-poached egg (suran) comes on the side, and sweet moju, a warm herbal rice drink, finishes the meal.
Try: Waengi-gukbap (bean sprout soup with rice)
Short wait