Korea Specialty Street Finder

About Korea Specialty Street Finder

Korean local governments name and manage themed streets: food alleys, fashion streets, culture streets, market strips. The government open-data portal collects them in a standard dataset of local specialty streets. This tool stores all 271 entries and lets you search by name or region, showing each street's description, address, length, number of shops, year of designation and the managing office's contact, with a link to open it in Kakao Map. It covers South Korea only.

It is handy when you know which city you are visiting but not what it is known for, or when you want to see every street across Korea built around one dish. Names and descriptions are in Korean, so searching with Korean words works best: 순대 (sundae, blood sausage), 불고기 (bulgogi), 닭갈비 (dakgalbi).

Where the data comes from and how current it is

Each local government enters its streets in a common template and the portal publishes the combined set. Because the set is small and changes slowly, this site does not call the API live: it downloaded the full set on 4 September 2026 and serves it as a static file, with a refresh planned about once a year.

Every entry also carries its own reference date from the local government. In the current data these range from June 2022 to June 2026, so shop counts and phone numbers on older entries may have changed.

Coverage is very uneven

By province, Gyeonggi has 55 entries, Daegu 31, Seoul 26, Incheon 24 and South Jeolla 22, while Gangwon has 2 and North Chungcheong 6. That says more about how actively each local government registers streets than about where the good food is. A famous alley missing from the list may simply never have been registered.

Some names appear twice. The Eonyang-Bonggye beef bulgogi zone in Ulju is registered as two separate stretches, one on Heonyang-gil in Eonyang-eup and one on Gyemyeong 1-gil in Dudong-myeon (Bonggye), so both rows stay. Rows that repeat the same name and address are merged into one when the data is refreshed. Designation years that look like something other than the street's creation, such as 1969 for Gyeongnidan-gil in Seoul, are shown as in the raw data.

What the numbers tell you

Shop count and length together describe a street. Majang-dong meat market street in Seoul lists 1,262 shops on 595 m, a dense wholesale market. Konkuk University's food street has 797 shops over 1.6 km, a place to wander and choose. Sundae alleys with single-digit counts (7 in Songhyeon-dong, Incheon; 8 in Byeongcheon, Cheonan) are a handful of long-running restaurants, where timing your visit to mealtimes matters.

Twenty-nine of the 271 entries have no coordinates. They get no pin on the map, and the Kakao Map link falls back to an address search.

Worked examples

How to use it

1. Search by name or dish, or pick a province and city.
2. Compare shop count, length, year and contact.
3. Tap an entry to see it on the map and open Kakao Map.

Frequently asked questions