Best Restaurants in South Jeolla

A seafood market with a street of evening food tents alongside it.

In Manho-dong, Mokpo, restaurants specialize in croaker sashimi and soup. Summer is the season, and the standard order is a course of raw, pan-fried and stewed croaker.

A street given over to cockle set meal restaurants.

Across from Juknokwon, Damju-ri in Damyang-eup is lined with minced-rib patty houses. Charcoal-grilled tteokgalbi with rice steamed in bamboo is the Damyang table.

One of the largest periodic-and-permanent markets in the province.

Yeongsanpo, a Yeongsan River port, is where Koreans began fermenting skate (hongeo) in the Joseon era; a 600-year-old skate specialty street stands here today.