The Restaurant Index
Every eating and drinking place in Korea's commercial-district registry, sorted by how many there are. 840,255 of them, Q2 2026 (as of 30 June 2026). The categories are the registry's own, not ours.
Source: Commercial District Information (Small Enterprise and Market Service) (소상공인시장진흥공단 상가(상권)정보) — Small Enterprise and Market Service (소상공인시장진흥공단). Q2 2026 (as of 30 June 2026). Retrieved 2026-09-10.
- 1Korean한식42.8%359,832
- 2Other quick-service기타 간이19.4%162,941
- 3Cafés & non-alcoholic비알코올14.6%122,623
- 4Bars & pubs주점11.6%97,580
- 5Chinese중식3.8%31,984
- 6Japanese일식3.0%24,842
- 7Western서양식2.7%23,100
- 8Canteens & buffets구내식당·뷔페1.3%10,673
- 9Southeast Asian동남아시아0.8%6,631
- 10Other international기타 외국0.0%49
- 11Catering출장 음식0.0%0
- 12Mobile food이동 음식0.0%0
Practical takeaways
- Korean alone is 42.8% of the total — roughly 4 in every 10 places.
- Cafés and non-alcoholic drink shops (122,623) outnumber Chinese restaurants (31,984) by about 3.8 to one.
- Catering and Mobile food show zero — the categories exist but no premises are on this registry under them. We leave the zeros in rather than dropping the rows.
Computed only from the table above — nothing added from outside this dataset.
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