Master Korean traditional cooking with a Kimchi chef

Name: Master Korean traditional cooking with a Kimchi chef
Brand: OME COOKING LAB
SKU: 30716P1
Price: 80.00 USD
Rating: 5.0 (342 reviews)

Seoul, South Korea

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3 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
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Offered in: English

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Overview

Learn how to cook a traditional Korean meal with help from a local during this 3-hour, small-group cooking class in Seoul. Take a short walking tour through the city as you make your way to a nearby market to pick up some ingredients to use in your recipes. Then, head over to a traditional Korean house, and learn to cook Korean dishes. Once you’ve finished in the kitchen, enjoy eating your meal with the company of your group.

3-hour cooking experience in a Korean-style house in Seoul
Small-group limited to seven people provides an intimate experience
Walk along the city streets to a local market to pick up cooking ingredients
Go into a local Korean-style home, and learn to cook your traditional Korean food
Enjoy eating the dishes you created with your group and cooking instructor
Different menu items will be cooked depending on what day you choose

Sample Menu

Main

Menu is total 3 kinds of dishes including the main menu and side menu.

Mon-Tues bibimbap, Kimchi jeon, Seasonal soup Wed-Thurs Deonjang jjigae, Kimchi jeon, japchae Fri 2 kinds of Kimchi, Kimchi jeon, Bossam, Deonajng guk

Dessert

Korean Dessert

Local seasonal Korean dessert

Starter

Welcome tea and local dessert

local tea and dessert

What's Included

Lunch(Dinner) or Dessert (depending on selection and time)
Local guide
Group tour

Subway station pickup and drop-off

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

892-10 Jegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Meeting Point: Jegidong station exit 2 (out side) (제기동역 2번출구 밖)

Start time

10:00 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Meet your small group at Jegidong Station Exit 2 (Line Number 1, near Dongdaemun Station) a little before 10am to get your 3-hour experience underway.

Your guide (who later becomes your cooking instructor) takes you and a small-group limited to seven on a short walking tour through the city to a local market. At the market, following the lead from your guide, your group picks up all the ingredients needed to make the recipes that have been planned out for the day.

Please note your meal has been planned differently by the day you chose for this experience. On Monday, you'll make samgyetang. If you chose a Thursday class, you’ll make kimchi. If you chose a Tuesday or Saturday class,you’ll make bulgogi, japchae, and deonjang jjigae. Fridays are reserved for bibimbap, and Sunday classes involve making a variety of Korean desserts.

After the market, your guide shows you the way to a Korean-style house in a local neighborhood. He or she sets you up in the kitchen with the others, and class begins. Learn how to make the popular Korean dishes on the menu for the day.

Once everything has been fully prepared, sit down and taste what you’ve created. Chat with your group members and cooking instructor before they bring you back to the station exit you were picked up from. Morning tea is included on all of the tours.

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions

A maximum of 10 people per booking
A minimum of 1 people per booking is required
Vegan, Halal option also available.
Composed of 3 different menu items.
Guests over 14 years are charged adult price.
Up to one children per class can participate. (under 6 years old is not available for safety.)
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Featured review

Sarah_L

Note that this is a hands-on cooking class, not just a demo! We each cooked small portions of the entire menu then sat down to a complete menu. The recipes were easy and authentic. Lots of info about the ingredients and the HUGE market made for an informative and fun event.

Reviews

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Well organized and fun

Sarah_L, May 2024

awesome class, would do it again!

Chee_M, Apr 2024

well conducted class, Chef ensured that everyone was taken care off and engaged. interesting walk through the market, and of course the hands on experience was awesome

Our first take on Korean cooking turned out an excellent experience

Rania_S, Apr 2024

Cooking our first Korean food with OME Cooking Lab was a great experience. After having walked through the food and medicine market buying ingredients, we ended up in a lovely fully equipped space and started preparing the food, then tasting it, then preparing more and enjoying a lovely lunch. The activity was thoroughly organized, giving time to all participants to enjoy every step. As an extra, we had the opportunity to prepare sea pineapples with a lovely chef from Busan. It was definitely worth the time and the money. Congratulations to the project team!

Excellent!

Stacey_B, Apr 2024

We had so much fun at this class! The market tour was interesting and informative. The cooking class itself was enjoyable and the instructor was able to accommodate all dietary restrictions.

Great experience, worth the time!

Juliana_S, Apr 2024

Great experience to get to know the local food market, hear interesting information about Korean culture and learn to make some reasonably easy dishes.

Amazing Experience with a Talented Chef

Jon_H, Mar 2024

Chef Minseon is fantastic! If you aren't a cook, be not afraid. Chef is great with instructions, technique and is patient. We made a few traditional Korean dishes and they all turned out great. Thanks Chef!

Fun and Food

Peter_T, Mar 2024

It was a very informative class and cooking was well paced. Making a bibimbap with more traditional ingredients was a great learning environment. The fact that you walk the local market and get fresh ingredients is such a highlight as well.

Nice experience. Definitely worth it!

VIVIANE_K, Mar 2024

Love the tour and extra details about the culture, different food and drinks. Love the market and the variety of food and medicine.

Our host was amazing! We...

Vincent_L, Nov 2023

Our host was amazing! We had a great time walking around in the traditional Korean market and seeing all the different ingredients - our cooking class was located in a shiny new studio and it was such a breeze to follow the recipes with prepped ingredients! Absolutely recommend to anyone who wants to learn Korean culture and cooking

Fantastic

Warda_H, Jul 2023

Enjoyable company Good food Very well organized and well explained Thank you for this moment . We had a really good time

Borahae

Victoria_P, Jun 2023

Biggest herb and vegetable market i have ever seen. The cooking class was fantastic, very simple and easy to replicate at home! Bonus: chef is a BTS ARMY. 10/10 would do again!

Best adventure of the week!

Maria_C, May 2023

This class was so fun! Shopping through the food market was magical! We felt like locals rather than tourists! Our guide was the best and made cooking fun! She had entertaining stories about this non-touristy neighborhood. Would definitely recommend this class to Seoul visitors!

Great experience

Eli_G, Nov 2022

This was one of the most enjoyable activities we had in South Korea. The chef was professional and nice. The cooking class and the market tour were most enjoyable. Great experience of a Traditional Cooking Experience in Korean Style House in Seoul

Amazing teacher, amazing food!

Rachel_C, May 2022

Minseon was such a wonderful teacher! She made the day so fun. She was so great at explaining everything and giving details on the market and ingredients as well as helping us to make some of the most delicious food. Could not recommend this enough!

Really nice experience

Kilian_S, Oct 2021

Wonderful experience! The chef was really nice and we learned how to make 4 dishes in 2 hours! I recommend it.

Great experience

Joseph_N, Jun 2021

Impressed with the number of dishes made and amount of food. I have to take some to go 😁. My daughter really enjoyed the experience as well and we received a cookbook to use in the future.

Delicious

David C, Oct 2019

Great activity with a vivacious young culinary enthusiast who was supportive and informative. Highly recommended.

It was completely perfect!

Pascal_S, Jul 2019

I am a semester abroad student in Seoul, so I decided to learn how to cook Korean. And this was the best tour/cooking class I could imagine to learn it. We started with a walk across the biggest market for groceries, spices and traditional medicine in Korea. Afterward, we walked to a lovely cooking studio which is nearby the market. We'd been a group out of 6 people and everybody was able to make different experiences within the cooking class. The chef's/instructors had been really friendly and nice to us! I definitely recommend this tour, it was a great expierience and I now have all the receipts I need to cook the korean food back home. Thank you !:)

Korean cooking class review

Anna_S, Jul 2019

Very instructive and fun! We learned about Korean ingredients and cooking and had a delicious meal! We loved our cooking teacher. Great value for the experience!

Great experience

Astrid_Y, Jul 2019

I recommend trying this Chef Jihee was great and friendly as the rest of the staff The whole this was well organized and knowledgeable You’ll not only learn how to cook but also a little bit of how Korean enjoy their food.