Jeju City and Seogwipo
Grilled black pork
Cut thick, grilled, then dipped in fermented anchovy sauce. The sauce is salty, so dip lightly.
Regional food guide
What to eat in Jeju
Written by hand, not generated. Dishes, markets, timing and prices for Jeju.
Jeju is a volcanic island with almost no rice paddies, so pork, seafood and field crops carry the cooking. Ingredients and methods differ from the mainland, so dishes with the same name taste different here — and much of the seafood comes straight from the haenyeo divers.
What people eat here
Start with the local defaults
Gogi guksu (pork noodle soup)
Wheat noodles in pork broth topped with boiled pork. A breakfast and hangover dish.
Braised or grilled hairtail
Large hairtail cooked whole, usually braised together with radish.
Momguk
A soup of gulfweed simmered in pork broth, descended from banquet cooking.
Seogwipo and Moseulpo
Jari mulhoe
Damselfish sliced bone and all into a chilled soybean paste broth. A summer dish.
Sea urchin and seaweed soup
Urchin harvested by the divers, simmered with brown seaweed. In season from spring into early summer.
Where the food is
Markets, streets and harbours
Dongmun Market, Jeju City
The largest traditional market on the island — raw fish, snacks and local produce together.
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Maeil Olle Market, Seogwipo
The main southern market, heavy on citrus and street food.
Restaurants nearby
Black pork street, Jeju City
A street of black pork grill restaurants.
Restaurants nearby
Moseulpo Port
The south-western harbour working in winter yellowtail and damselfish.
Restaurants nearby
Jeju Folk Five-day Market
The largest five-day market on Jeju, held on dates ending in 2 and 7. On market days, noodle, pancake and sundae stalls and seasonal fruit stands fill the grounds.
Restaurants nearby
Sehwa Five-day Market
A seaside five-day market in Sehwa-ri, Gujwa-eup, on the east coast, held on dates ending in 5 and 0. Seafood from the haenyeo divers and Jeju snacks like buckwheat rolls are eaten right by the water.
Restaurants nearbyWhen to go
- Damselfish is in season from May to July, sea urchin from April to June.
- Yellowtail is best around Moseulpo in winter, November to February.
- Flights and accommodation rise sharply in the summer and winter peaks.
Worth knowing
- 1Locals dip black pork in fermented anchovy sauce rather than salt. It is strong, so use a little.
- 2The coastal roads assume a rental car, but parking is difficult in peak season.
- 3Tourist districts and residential neighbourhoods differ a lot in price; markets and back streets are cheaper.
- 4Seafood depends on whether the divers went out and on the weather. If you have a specific dish in mind, call ahead.
What it costs · Per person, roughly
Black pork runs KRW 20,000-25,000 per person, pork noodle soup KRW 9,000-10,000, and braised hairtail around KRW 50,000 for two.
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