For fifteen years the owner ran three restaurants in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, under the name Josun Bon Galbi Milmyeon. Everything learned there about handling beef and drawing a broth went into JosunDaega Gomtang.
When the premium gomtang was finally ready, the owner chose Haeundae rather than Jinju for its first home — a place full of visitors from abroad, and the right place to show what Korean food actually tastes like. It is also the owner's first restaurant in Busan.
The bulgogi is the same dish that has been the house favourite since the Jinju days, kept sweet-and-savoury the way overseas guests tend to like it. With the bibimbap and its house sauce alongside, this korean restaurant sets a table that covers the breadth of Korean cooking in one sitting.
“Taste it and you will know. The depth, the body, the aroma of the beef — none of it is like the gomtang you have had before.”
