Top 50 Cuisines in South Korea

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest cuisines in South Korea, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 139 cuisines tracked in South Korea, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Korean cuisine, Chinese cuisine and Japanese cuisine lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 12,727,817 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 991,980, and the largest, Korean cuisine, reaches around 4,634,579 people in South Korea. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with each cuisine, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Korea and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Korean cuisine	4,634,579	3.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
2	Chinese cuisine	4,134,652	2.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
3	Japanese cuisine	3,958,586	2.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
4	Italian cuisine	3,849,669	1.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
5	French cuisine	3,412,369	2.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
6	Vietnamese cuisine	3,289,748	3.6%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
7	Thai cuisine	3,277,585	3.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
8	Mexican cuisine	2,980,524	2.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
9	Middle Eastern cuisine	2,957,777	4.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
10	Latin American cuisine	2,470,914	2.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
11	Spanish cuisine	2,453,198	2.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
12	German cuisine	2,340,304	2.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
13	Greek cuisine	2,334,871	3.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
14	Indian cuisine	2,286,093	1.9%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
15	Vegetarian cuisine	2,119,176	1.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
16	Mediterranean cuisine	481,237	0.6%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
17	Indonesian cuisine	363,602	3.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
18	Asian cuisine	341,053	1.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
19	spicy food	255,663	0.6%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
20	Turkish cuisine	183,250	0.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
21	Arab cuisine	132,801	0.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
22	Cantonese cuisine	128,901	1.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
23	Portuguese cuisine	106,130	0.9%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
24	Swedish cuisine	103,207	25.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
25	Cuisine of the United States	102,450	0.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
26	Philippine cuisine	75,277	1.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
27	New Mexican cuisine	64,008	0.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
28	southern food	63,479	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
29	British cuisine	62,887	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
30	African cuisine	49,496	0.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
31	Korean Chinese cuisine	46,935	10.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
32	Fusion cuisine	42,335	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
33	Malaysian cuisine	40,260	0.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
34	Global cuisine	39,913	0.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
35	Hong Kong cuisine	38,023	0.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
36	Peruvian cuisine	37,369	0.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
37	European cuisine	34,241	0.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
38	Romanian cuisine	32,831	0.9%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
39	Traditional food	32,638	1.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
40	Iraqi cuisine	25,662	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
41	Louisiana Creole cuisine	24,487	0.6%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
42	Lebanese cuisine	24,177	0.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
43	Yakiniku	22,524	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
44	Cajun cuisine	22,103	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
45	Syrian cuisine	21,903	0.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
46	South Asian cuisine	20,903	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
47	English cuisine	20,774	0.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
48	Taiwanese cuisine	20,633	0.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
49	Polish cuisine	19,090	0.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
50	Szechuan cuisine	18,755	0.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages