Korean Englishman's 4 Seoul Food Stops

Korean Englishman — Josh’s English-language YouTube channel — has spent a decade eating his way around Korea on camera, and his Seoul videos are a useful shortlist for English-speaking visitors: the places are named on screen, the food is shown being eaten, and the addresses check out. This list collects four of them: a barbecue house, a century-old market, a fish market, and the stall inside it where his guests ate.

One thing to be clear about first: these are restaurants and places featured in Korean Englishman’s videos, not K-drama filming locations. This article does not grade them the way our guides grade filming spots, so you will find no Confirmed or Reported labels here. Each stop names the video it comes from, and each address was verified in November 2026 against the restaurant’s or market’s official site or Korean listing pages. Hours, menus, and queues change, so check the official page before you go. No prices are listed here, deliberately: menus change and this feature does not track them.

1. Mongtan (몽탄) — Samgakji

Mongtan is the barbecue house Josh calls “maybe my favourite restaurant in Korea” in the description of “British Highschoolers try GIANT Korean Beef Ribs!!” (October 2022). The video’s draw is the giant beef rib: a large cut smoked over rice straw, then finished on a cast-iron griddle lid over the grill. Josh adds that he once waited hours just to get a reservation, and that the video is not sponsored — the restaurant simply let the team film.

The address is 50 Baekbeom-ro 99-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, a short walk from Samgakji Station (Lines 4 and 6), Exit 8. The restaurant’s own site is mongtan.co.kr, where current hours and booking notes are listed. Expect a wait: Mongtan is known for long queues, and the video itself is a story about earning the table.

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2. Gwangjang Market (광장시장) — Jongno

In one of the channel’s early Korea series, Josh brings his friend Johnny — visiting Asia for the first time — to a traditional market for silkworms, tteokbokki, sundae, and fermented stingray. The video’s Korean description names the market outright: Gwangjang Market, the century-old market in Jongno.

This stop is the market itself, not one stall: the video does not single out a vendor, and the market’s food alleys are the point. Beyond what the video tastes, the alleys are known for mung bean pancakes, mayak gimbap, and hand-cut noodle soup, so a visit repays wandering rather than hunting one counter. The address is 88 Changgyeonggung-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul. The nearest subway is Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1), Exit 8, with Euljiro 4-ga Station (Lines 2 and 5) also walkable. Stalls keep their own hours, so check before you go.

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3. Noryangjin Fisheries Market (노량진수산시장) — Dongjak

“British Chefs Have NEVER Experienced Seafood Like This!” takes two British chefs to a Korean fish market to pick their own seafood and eat it cooked upstairs — the classic Noryangjin pattern. The market’s ground floor is rows of vendors selling live and fresh seafood; buyers carry their pick to an upstairs restaurant to have it cooked, which is exactly what the video shows.

The address is 674 Nodeul-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, beside Noryangjin Station, and the market’s official site is susansijang.co.kr. If you go, the routine matters more than any one stall: pick, weigh, agree the price, then eat upstairs. The market opens early and the wholesale floor is at its liveliest in the morning.

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4. Ttangkkeut Maeul (땅끝마을) — inside Noryangjin Market

The same seafood video ends at the table, and its description thanks the Ttangkkeut Maeul team — the restaurant where the chefs’ market picks were cooked and served. Korean listings place Ttangkkeut Maeul at stalls 42–43 on the market’s first floor, so it sits inside the market in stop 3 rather than at a separate address.

One transparency note: the video’s description does not name Noryangjin in words. The link is the thanked restaurant, which listings verify sits inside Noryangjin Fisheries Market — so if you want the video’s exact table, this is the closest verifiable match, and the market address in stop 3 is the address to navigate to.

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Before you go

• Addresses above were verified in November 2026 against the restaurants’ and markets’ official sites and Korean listing pages. Hours and menus change; check the official page named in each section before visiting.
• Only places named in a video and verifiable to a street address made this list. Videos that named no place, or places no listing could pin down, were left out.
• This is a test feature. If readers find it useful, more video-based Seoul lists may follow. Filming-location guides remain the site’s core, and nothing here is graded as a filming spot.