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Korea's Three Bone Soups

๋ผˆ์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ ยท Bones, Time & the Iron Cauldron

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Seolleongtang โ€” milky white ox bone broth, scallions, salt on the side

์„ค๋ ํƒ• โ€” ์†Œ๊ธˆยทํŒŒ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฐ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฟŒ์—ฐ ์‚ฌ๊ณจ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ

"A bowl of pale broth. No sauce, no garnish, no drama. The New York Times called it 'the kind of soup you could eat every day.' โ€” Seolleongtang, Gomtang, Dwaeji Gukbap."

์•„๋ฌด ๊ฐ„๋„ ์•ˆ ๋œ ํ•˜์–€ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡. ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค๊ฐ€ "๋งค์ผ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์š”๋ฆฌ"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ €์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€” ์„ค๋ ํƒ•, ๊ณฐํƒ•, ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ.

Story
Giant iron gamasot cauldron boiling seolleongtang โ€” steam rising over open flame

๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ์—์„œ ๋“๋Š” ์„ค๋ ํƒ• โ€” ๋ผˆ, ๋ฌผ, ๋ถˆ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„

Most people assume Korean food is about the sauce. Gochujang. Doenjang. Garlic. Flavor that arrives loud and stays loud. So when a bowl of pale, unseasoned broth lands on the table โ€” served with kimchi, kkakdugi, and a plate of cold boiled meat on the side โ€” the first instinct is: is that... it?

That instinct is wrong. And its origins are older than most people expect.

Seolleongtang's origin story comes in two versions, and both are worth knowing. The first: in Joseon-era Korea, the king performed the Seonnongjae (์„ ๋†์ œ), a ritual at the royal altar to pray for a good harvest. When the ceremony ended, the sacrificial ox was thrown into a giant iron cauldron โ€” a gamasot (๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ) โ€” and boiled over an open flame for the crowds waiting outside. The second theory points to the Mongol invasions of the Goryeo period: seolleongtang may derive from the Mongolian shuru, meaning "meat broth." The Mongols brought slaughter techniques and a whole new relationship with bone to the Korean peninsula.

Gomtang has an even older paper trail โ€” its name comes from the pure Korean verb goda (๊ณ ๋‹ค), "to simmer until only the essence remains," recorded in a medical text from 1489. In the market town of Naju, where one of Korea's first five-day markets was held, vendors standing between transactions warmed themselves with a bowl of that long-simmered meat broth. All three soups share the same origin at heart: not aristocratic food, not temple food โ€” food made from bones and scraps, in a single iron cauldron, for people who were hungry and couldn't afford to waste anything.

Busan pork gukbap restaurant โ€” old alley, early morning, the cauldron already lit
"Some dishes survive because they're good. This one survived because it had to."

Dwaeji gukbap carries the heaviest story. Before the Korean War, Busan was a city of 470,000. Then the North Korean army swept south, capturing 90% of the peninsula within weeks. The Nakdong River line โ€” the last defensive perimeter around Busan โ€” was all that remained of South Korea. If it fell, the country ceased to exist. It didn't fall. But everyone who had fled south was now here: the population surged past one million, eventually hitting 1.2 to 1.3 million. They had to eat. Pork bones were the cheapest thing available. The gamasot stayed lit.

๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์Ÿ ์ „ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ์ธ๊ตฌ๋Š” 47๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. 1950๋…„, ๋ถํ•œ๊ตฐ์ด ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„ 90%๋ฅผ ์ ๋ นํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‚™๋™๊ฐ• ๋ฐฉ์–ด์„ ์ด ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด ๋๋‹ค. ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ํ”ผ๋ž€๋ฏผ์ด ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋ ธ๊ณ , ์ธ๊ตฌ๋Š” 100๋งŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ฒจ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 130๋งŒ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ๋จน์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ผ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ผ์ง€ ๋ผˆ์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ์€ ๊บผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

์„ค๋ ํƒ•์˜ ์œ ๋ž˜๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ„์ „์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์กฐ์„ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ์™•์ด ์„ ๋†๋‹จ(ๅ…ˆ่พฒๅฃ‡)์—์„œ ์„ ๋†์ œ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ œ์‚ฌ์— ์“ด ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ์— ๋“์—ฌ ๋ฐฑ์„ฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์คฌ๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ค. ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ ค์‹œ๋Œ€ ๋ชฝ๊ณจ ์นจ๋žต๊ธฐ ์œ ๋ž˜์„ค์ด๋‹ค. ์œ ๋ชฉ๋ฏผ์กฑ ๋ชฝ๊ณจ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋„์ถ• ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ „ํ–ˆ๊ณ , '์„ค๋ ํƒ•'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ชฝ๊ณจ์–ด '์Šˆ๋ฃจ(๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์‚ถ์€ ๋ฌผ)'์—์„œ ์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ณฐํƒ•์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋๋‹ค. ์ˆœ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง ๋™์‚ฌ '๊ณ ๋‹ค' โ€” ๋ญ‰๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋„๋ก ์ง„์•ก๋งŒ ๋‚จ์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ‘น ๋“์ด๋‹ค โ€” ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๋ง๋กœ, 1489๋…„ ๋ฌธํ—Œ์— ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํƒ• ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๊ท€ํ•œ ๋ถ€์œ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๋ผˆ์™€ ์žํˆฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋กœ, ๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ ํ•˜๋‚˜์— ๋ถˆ ๋•Œ์›Œ, ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํ”ˆ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋จน์ธ ์„œ๋ฏผ์˜ ์Œ์‹์ด๋‹ค.

์ด ํƒ•๋“ค์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ ๋จน๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์•ˆ์—๋„ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์˜จ์ „ํ•œ ๋ง›์„ ๋” ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์œก(์ˆ˜์œก โ€” ์–‡๊ฒŒ ์ฌ ์‚ถ์€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ)์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ์—†์ด, ์ƒˆ์šฐ์ “ ํ•œ ์  ๊ณ๋“ค์—ฌ ๋จน๋Š” ์ˆ˜์œก์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์Œ์‹์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ์‹๋‹น๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ง์ ‘ ๋‹ด๊ทผ ๊น€์น˜์™€ ๊น๋‘๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊น€์น˜์™€ ๊น๋‘๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ณ๋“ค์ž„์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌต์งํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ฐœํšจ์˜ ์‚ฐ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง›์ด ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค.

Fast Facts
Seolleongtang โ€” milky white ox bone broth overhead view
Seolleongtang
์„ค๋ ํƒ•
Ox leg bones ยท milky white ยท season yourself with salt & scallions ยท ์†Œ๋ผˆ ยท ๋ฟŒ์—ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ยท ์†Œ๊ธˆยทํŒŒ๋กœ ๊ฐ„
Gomtang โ€” clear amber beef brisket broth overhead view
Gomtang
๊ณฐํƒ•
Beef brisket ยท clear amber broth ยท seasoned with soy ยท ์–‘์ง€ ยท ๋ง‘์€ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ยท ๊ฐ„์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„
Dwaeji gukbap โ€” pork bone soup with rice, Busan style
Dwaeji Gukbap
๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ
Pork bones ยท rice in broth ยท born in Busan ยท ๋ผ์ง€๋ผˆ ยท ๋ฐฅ ๋ง์•„์„œ ยท ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์Œ์‹

์™ผ์ชฝ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ: ์„ค๋ ํƒ• ยท ๊ณฐํƒ• ยท ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ โ€” ๊ฐ™์•„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ฒ ํ•™์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค

The Milky One Contains No Milk

Seolleongtang's milk-white broth has no milk, no cream, no starch. A giant iron cauldron (gamasot), ox bones, high heat, and time โ€” the fat and collagen emulsify and the broth turns white. Bones. Water. Hours. Done.

์„ค๋ ํƒ•์ด ํ•˜์–€ ๊ฑด ํฌ๋ฆผ์ด๋‚˜ ์œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ์— ์‚ฌ๊ณจ์„ ์„ผ ๋ถˆ๋กœ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋“์ด๋ฉด ๋ผ›์† ์ฝœ๋ผ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ด ์œ ํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฟŒ์˜‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๋ผˆ, ๋ฌผ, ๊ฐ€๋งˆ์†ฅ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค.

They Look the Same. They Are Not.

Three bowls that look nearly identical. Seolleongtang is milky bone broth (beef), gomtang is a clear meat-based broth (brisket), and dwaeji gukbap is pork all the way. None come pre-seasoned. You do that part โ€” and it matters.

์„ธ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์„ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ๋†“์œผ๋ฉด ๋น„์Šทํ•ด ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ฒ ํ•™์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ์„ค๋ ํƒ• = ๋ฟŒ์—ฐ ์†Œ๋ผˆ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ / ๊ณฐํƒ• = ๋ง‘์€ ์–‘์ง€ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ / ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ = ๋ผ์ง€๋ผˆ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ. ์…‹ ๋‹ค ๊ฐ„์„ ์ง์ ‘ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ด ํƒ•์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋‹ค.

Every Culture Has One. Only Korea Makes It White.

Vietnamese pho, Japanese tonkotsu, French pot-au-feu, Mexican caldo de res โ€” every food culture figured out bone broth. But only tonkotsu and seolleongtang go white. The reason: high, sustained heat drives collagen into emulsion. Everyone else was chasing clarity. Korea cranked the flame.

๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ ํฌ, ์ผ๋ณธ ๋ˆ์ฝ”์ธ , ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ํฌํ† ํ‘€, ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ” ์นผ๋„ ๋ฐ ๋ ˆ์Šค โ€” ๋ผˆ๋ฅผ ๋“์—ฌ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ด ํ•˜์–—๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์„ค๋ ํƒ•๊ณผ ๋ˆ์ฝ”์ธ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ถˆ ์„ธ๊ธฐ. ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์„ธ๊ฒŒ ๋“์ด๋Š” ์ชฝ์„ ์„ ํƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

New York Noticed

In 2023, New York Times critic Pete Wells gave two stars to Okdongsik โ€” a Seoul pork gomtang specialist โ€” and wrote: "the kind of soup you could eat every day." Same year: NYT Best Dishes of 2023, 8th place. Unseasoned pork bone broth. Best dishes. 2023.

2023๋…„ ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค Pete Wells๋Š” ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ๋ผ์ง€ ๊ณฐํƒ• ์ „๋ฌธ์  ์˜ฅ๋™์‹์— ๋ณ„ 2๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์คฌ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์ค„ ํ‰: "๋งค์ผ ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ตญ๋ฌผ." ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•ด NYT ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ ์š”๋ฆฌ 8์œ„. ์•„๋ฌด ์–‘๋…๋„ ์—†๋Š” ๋ผ์ง€ ๋ผˆ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ด.

Busan's Pork Soup Is a Refugee Recipe

Before the Korean War, Busan had 470,000 people. By 1951, it hit 1.3 million โ€” refugees from across the country, compressed into a city not built for them. Pork bones were the cheapest protein available. The cauldron stayed lit. Today Busan has over 1,000 dwaeji gukbap restaurants.

์ „์Ÿ ์ „ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ์ธ๊ตฌ๋Š” 47๋งŒ ๋ช…. ๋‚™๋™๊ฐ• ๋ฐฉ์–ด์„ ์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด ๋œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ํ”ผ๋ž€๋ฏผ์ด ๋ชฐ๋ ค 130๋งŒ ๋ช…๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ๋ผ์ง€ ๋ผˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ผ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์—” ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์ง‘์ด 1,000๊ณณ์ด ๋„˜๋Š”๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์Œ์‹์€ ๋ง›์ด ์ข‹์•„์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด ์Œ์‹์€ ์‚ด์•„์•ผ ํ•ด์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค.

The Complete Table

The bowl already has plenty of meat. But if you want to taste the pork or beef on its own terms โ€” without the broth, with just a dab of salted shrimp paste โ€” order suyuk (์ˆ˜์œก) on the side. And the house kimchi and kkakdugi aren't optional. That fermented sharpness is the other half of the bowl.

๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์•ˆ์—๋„ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์˜จ์ „ํ•œ ๋ง›์„ ๋” ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์œก์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•  ๊ฒƒ. ์ƒˆ์šฐ์ “ ํ•œ ์  ๊ณ๋“ค์—ฌ ๋จน๋Š” ์ˆ˜์œก์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์Œ์‹์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ๊น€์น˜ยท๊น๋‘๊ธฐ๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ฐœํšจ์˜ ์‚ฐ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง›์ด ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค.

Where to Eat
Full table โ€” gukbap bowl, suyuk, house kimchi, kkakdugi, saewujeot โ€” the complete Korean bone soup experience

๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡ + ์ˆ˜์œก + ์ง‘ ๊น€์น˜ยท๊น๋‘๊ธฐ + ์ƒˆ์šฐ์ “ โ€” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ํ•œ ์ƒ์ด๋‹ค

How to Order

The soup comes with a generous amount of meat already in the bowl โ€” you won't leave hungry. But if you want to taste the meat on its own terms, order suyuk (์ˆ˜์œก, boiled meat slices) on the side. It's the same cut, cooked the same way, just served without the broth. The house kimchi and kkakdugi on every table are made in-house โ€” every restaurant has its own recipe, and that fermented sharpness is what pulls the whole bowl together. Don't skip it.

๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์˜จ์ „ํ•œ ๋ง›์„ ๋” ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์œก์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ. ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๊บผ๋‚ธ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ’๋ฏธ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ๋‹ค. ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์— ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์ง‘ ๊น€์น˜ยท๊น๋‘๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‹๋‹น๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ง์ ‘ ๋‹ด๊ทผ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค ์—†์ด๋Š” ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜๋งŒ ๋จน์€ ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฝ New York The soup that made it to the NYT Best Dishes list
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Seoul ยท ์„œ์šธ Traditional, modern, and Busan-style โ€” all in one city
์•ˆ๋ชฉ ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์  Anmok Gangnam Michelin Bib Gourmand

The Seoul landing of Busan's Michelin-recognised pork gukbap. Female pigs only (amtweji), simmered 24+ hours โ€” rich but remarkably clean on the palate. Seoul-exclusive eonjeong galbigukbap is worth trying. Gangnam-gu, Eonju-ro 520 1F (YeoksamยทSeolleung). Monโ€“Fri 11:00โ€“midnight, Satโ€“Sun 9:00โ€“21:00. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๋ถ€์‚ฐ ๊ด‘์•ˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏธ์А๋žญ ๋น• ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ง ์•ˆ๋ชฉ์˜ ์„œ์šธ ๊ฐ•๋‚จ ์ง€์ . ์•”ํ‡˜์ง€ ์‚ฌ๊ณจ์„ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ ๋“์ธ ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ. ์„œ์šธ์  ํ•œ์ • ์—‰์ • ๊ฐˆ๋น„๊ตญ๋ฐฅ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ•๋‚จ๊ตฌ ์–ธ์ฃผ๋กœ 520 1์ธต (์—ญ์‚ผยท์„ ๋ฆ‰์—ญ). โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

์•ˆ๋ชฉ ์„ฑ์ˆ˜์  Anmok Seongsu

Same broth philosophy as Gangnam, planted in Seongsu โ€” where old factory aesthetic meets new Seoul energy. Daily 10:00โ€“22:00. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๊ฐ•๋‚จ์ ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ์ฒ ํ•™, ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๋™ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์€ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์„œ์šธ ์ง€์ . ๋งค์ผ 10:00~22:00. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๋ถ€์‚ฐ์•„์ง€๋งค๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์—ญ์‚ผ์  Busan Ajimae Gukbap

Straightforward Busan-style pork gukbap in the heart of Gangnam's office district โ€” and it runs 24 hours. The go-to for post-dinner recovery or a late-night bowl when everything else is closed. Gangnam-gu, Nonhyeon-ro 85-gil (Yeoksam Station exits 2โ€“3). โ‚ฉ

๊ฐ•๋‚จ ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ์—์„œ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์‹ ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ. ํšŒ์‹ ํ›„ ํ•ด์žฅ, ๋Šฆ์€ ๋ฐค ํ•œ ๋ผ. ๊ฐ•๋‚จ๊ตฌ ๋…ผํ˜„๋กœ85๊ธธ (์—ญ์‚ผ์—ญ 2~3๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ). โ‚ฉ

๊ณฐํƒ• ๋žฉ Gomtang Lab

Chef Lim Jung-sik โ€” of Michelin two-star Jungsik New York โ€” turned his attention to gomtang and made it fine dining. Ox feet, tendons, and oxtail simmered 10+ hours. The broth coats your lips. Twenty bowls a day. If sold out, come back tomorrow. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๋‰ด์š• Jungsik์˜ ์ž„์ •์‹ ์…ฐํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“  ํŒŒ์ธ๋‹ค์ด๋‹ํ˜• ๊ณฐํƒ• ์ „๋ฌธ์ . ์†Œ ๋ฐœยทํž˜์ค„ยท๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ 10์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ ๋“์ธ ์ฝœ๋ผ๊ฒ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ. ํ•˜๋ฃจ 20๊ทธ๋ฆ‡ ํ•œ์ •. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๋Šฅ๋™ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ ๊ณฐํƒ• Neungdong Minari Gomtang

Same-day-slaughtered Hanwoo beef in the broth, topped with a mountain of minari (water dropwort) grown in clean spring water. The visual โ€” bright green herbs piled high over pale broth โ€” earns the photo. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๋‹น์ผ ๋„์ถ• ํ•œ์šฐ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์— ์ฒญ์ •์ˆ˜ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ถ์ด ์˜ฌ๋ ค ๋‚ด๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์‹ ๊ณฐํƒ•. ์ดˆ๋ก ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์Œ“์ธ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ๋กœ SNS ํ™”์ œ. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

๐Ÿ– Busan โ€” Traditional ยท ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ์ „ํ†ต Where the soup was born โ€” and still lives
ํ•ฉ์ฒœ๊ตญ๋ฐฅ์ง‘ Hapcheon Gukbapjip Michelin Bib Gourmand 2024

The reference point for traditional Busan pork gukbap. The kitchen uses tolyeom โ€” repeatedly ladling hot broth over the meat to cook it gently โ€” which removes off-notes and locks in the pork's clean, rounded flavour. The broth is clear, almost like a galbitang, and the kind that lingers long after you've left Busan. โ‚ฉ

๋ถ€์‚ฐ ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ์ •ํ†ตํŒŒ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€. ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์— ๋‹ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค ๋นผ๋Š” 'ํ† ๋ ด' ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์žก๋‚ด๋ฅผ ์žก๊ณ , ๊ฐˆ๋น„ํƒ•์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ง‘๊ณ  ๊นŠ์€ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์„ ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์›์น™์„ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง‘. โ‚ฉ

๋ณธ์ „๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ Bonjeon Dwaeji Gukbap

The first bowl most people eat when they arrive in Busan โ€” and intentionally so. Located near Busan Station, open early. No frills, no surprises, just reliable pork gukbap that's been doing the same thing for decades. The right way to start a Busan trip. โ‚ฉ

๋ถ€์‚ฐ์—ญ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ํ˜„์ง€์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ์ฐพ๋Š” ์ง‘. ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„ ๋œ ๋…ธํฌ๋กœ ์ด๋ฅธ ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜์—…. ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ ์ฒซ ํ•œ ๋ผ. โ‚ฉ

๐ŸŒŠ Busan โ€” Gwangalli ยท ๊ด‘์•ˆ๋ฆฌ Modern feel, same pork bones โ€” with a sea view
์•ˆ๋ชฉ ๊ด‘์•ˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ณธ์  Anmok Gwangalli (Original) Michelin Bib Gourmand 2024

Where it all started. Female pigs only, simmered 24+ hours โ€” clean, no off-smell, the kind of bowl that converts people who thought they didn't like pork soup. Walking distance from Gwangalli Beach. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

์•ˆ๋ชฉ์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ . ์•”ํ‡˜์ง€๋งŒ ์จ์„œ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ ๋“์ธ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ ์—†์ด ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ์„ ๋ชป ๋จน๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค. ๊ด‘์•ˆ๋Œ€๊ต ๋„๋ณด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ. โ‚ฉโ‚ฉ

์ˆ˜๋ณ€์ตœ๊ณ ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ๋ฏผ๋ฝ๋ณธ์  Subyeon Chego โ€” Minlak Original

The no-fail option near Gwangalli Beach. Almost none of the gamey smell that puts first-timers off pork soup. Reliable, unfussy, good view. A solid starting point if you're new to gukbap. โ‚ฉ

๊ด‘์•ˆ๋ฆฌ ํ•ด๋ณ€ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜, ํ˜ธ๋ถˆํ˜ธ ์—†๋Š” ์ง‘. ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ์žก๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†์–ด ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธยท์ž…๋ฌธ์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ถ”์ฒœ. ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์œ„์น˜. โ‚ฉ

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Pronunciation Guide
์„ค๋ ํƒ• Seol-leong-tang โ€” "tang" rhymes with "song"
๊ณฐํƒ• Gom-tang โ€” G as in "go"
๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ Dwae-ji-guk-bap โ€” sounds exactly like it's spelled
์ˆ˜์œก Su-yuk โ€” the u sounds like "oo"
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