Saemaeul Restaurant (), name also rendered as Saemaeul Sikdang,
is a South Korean multinational
Korean barbecue
Korean barbecue () is a popular method in Korean cuisine of grilling meat, typically beef, pork or chicken. Such dishes are often prepared on gas or charcoal grills built into the dining table itself, though some restaurants provide customers wi ...
chain restaurant. The restaurant first opened in South Korea in 2005,
and has locations in South Korea, Japan, China,
the United States, Hong Kong,
the Philippines, Thailand,
Vietnam, and Australia.
In South Korea, the chain reportedly had 101 locations in 2023, with all of them operating as
franchise restaurants.
The restaurant's representative dishes are its ''
yeontan
, also known by the names () or ''fēngwōméi'' (, literally "beehive coal"), are coal briquettes used across East Asia for home cooking and residential home heating purposes. They were first invented in Japan, then propagated through the rest of ...
''
bulgogi
Bulgogi ( , , ; , ) is a '' gui'' (Korean-style grilled or roasted dish) made of thin, marinated slices of meat, most commonly beef, grilled on a barbecue or on a stove-top griddle. It is also often stir-fried in a pan in home cooking. Sirl ...
and its 7-minute
kimchi-''jjigae''.
The restaurant is one of several restaurant chains run by South Korean entrepreneur and celebrity chef
Paik Jong-won, under his company Theborn Korea.
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External links
U.S. homepage(in English)
South Korean homepage(in Korean)
South Korean companies established in 2005
Korean barbecue restaurants