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Top 100 Cuisines in South Korea

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest cuisines in South Korea, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 140 cuisines tracked in South Korea, the 100 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 13M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 498k, and the largest, Korean cuisine, reaches around 4.6M 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.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Korea. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Korea, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Korea. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Philippine cuisine 75k 35.4 60.1% Cuisine
27 New Mexican cuisine 64k 31.1 63.7% Cuisine
28 southern food 63k 31.3 54.9% Cuisine
29 British cuisine 63k 33.4 60.1% Cuisine
30 African cuisine 49k 36.8 67.8% Cuisine
31 Korean Chinese cuisine 47k 32.9 57.7% Cuisine
32 Fusion cuisine 42k 36.3 60.0% Cuisine
33 Malaysian cuisine 40k 30.0 67.6% Cuisine
34 Global cuisine 40k 38.3 48.9% Cuisine
35 Hong Kong cuisine 38k 31.2 69.8% Cuisine
36 Peruvian cuisine 37k 34.3 70.7% Cuisine
37 European cuisine 34k 32.6 62.4% Cuisine
38 Romanian cuisine 33k 32.1 65.1% Cuisine
39 Traditional food 33k 32.9 44.2% Cuisine
40 Iraqi cuisine 26k 32.9 71.7% Cuisine
41 Louisiana Creole cuisine 24k 36.9 62.1% Cuisine
42 Lebanese cuisine 24k 31.8 66.2% Cuisine
43 Yakiniku 23k 24.4 55.4% Cuisine
44 Cajun cuisine 22k 33.5 57.0% Cuisine
45 Syrian cuisine 22k 35.1 65.0% Cuisine
46 South Asian cuisine 21k 34.5 70.5% Cuisine
47 English cuisine 21k 32.4 54.5% Cuisine
48 Taiwanese cuisine 21k 28.8 59.2% Cuisine
49 Polish cuisine 19k 35.8 54.9% Cuisine
50 Szechuan cuisine 19k 31.0 56.2% Cuisine

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Korea and ranks each cuisine by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest cuisine in South Korea?

Korean cuisine currently leads with an estimated audience of 4.6M people in South Korea.

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