Mukjung

Key Information

• 🏅 Listed in the MICHELIN Guide Seoul
• 🍽️ Signature menu: Shiitake & Shrimp Jeon · Roast Chicken · 5-Layered Pork Belly
• 🫙 Contemporary Korean cuisine made with house-made jang and fermented ingredients
• 🕐 Tue–Sat 17:30–23:00 · Closed Sun & Mon

🏅 MICHELIN-Selected Korean Dining Built on Fermentation in Chungmuro: Mukjung

We confidently recommend Mukjung, a Korean dining restaurant selected by the MICHELIN Guide Seoul that reinterprets traditional Korean food in a contemporary way using house-made jang and fermented ingredients.

If you are staying around Chungmuro or Jangchung-dong, we recommend Mukjung on Toegye-ro 48-gil for a thoughtfully prepared Korean dinner.

Korean-American chef Austin Kang makes his own jang and fermented foods, guided by the Korean belief that food is medicine.

Signature dishes include shiitake mushrooms stuffed with shrimp, roast chicken aged for 3 days and cooked with glutinous rice, and pork belly marinated in red-ginseng doenjang and smoked.

Why Locals Love It

• 🏅 Proven quality — selected by the MICHELIN Guide Seoul
• 🫙 Fermented flavors — house-made jang and fermented ingredients
• 🍗 Carefully made mains — aged and smoked meat dishes
• 🥢 Generous spread — 10 side dishes and leafy wraps come with each main dish

Tips for Foreign Visitors

• 🚇 It is about an 8-minute walk from Exit 1 of Chungmuro Station
• 🍗 Main dishes must be pre-ordered with your reservation by the day before
• 🍽️ First time? Try the Shiitake & Shrimp Jeon together with the Roast Chicken
• 🕐 Opens at 5:30 p.m. and is closed on Sundays and Mondays
• 🥢 The pork belly comes in 400g (serves 2–3) or 800g portions