Gastronomic World Turns All Eyes on Korea

In Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, held in Seoul, celebrity chefs from Seoul and across Asia will discuss a wide range of topics 

from Korea’s diverse local dishes to food fermentation culture, which will be followed by a dining collaboration event and 

a Korean food workshop. 

Sejong, 21 March 2024 — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister: Song Miryung) and the Seoul Metropolitan 

Government (Mayor: Oh Se-hoon) announced today that Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, the world’s highly prestigious international 

gastronomic event, will be held in Seoul from 23 to 27 March 2024.

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, also known as the Academy Awards of the gastronomic world, features the awards ceremony¹⁾ 

where the list of Asia’s top 50 restaurants is revealed. The event will also feature #50BestTalks, a session for discussion on topics of catching 

the eyes of the gastronomic community around the world. This year’s discussion will cover a spectrum of topics from Korea’s local dishes whose 

recipes have been passed down through generations by word of mouth (the panelist: Mi-hyun Ha, a food researcher) to Korean noodle dishes 

(the panelist: Do-yun Kim, head chef of the Michelin-starred Yun Seoul) to food fermentation culture (the panelists: chefs from Asia). 

50 Best Signature Sessions, a dining collaboration event of bringing together celebrity chefs from Seoul and across the region, will be 

presented as well.

1) The awards ceremony will be aired on YouTube of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants in real time (youtube.com/@worlds50best).

As opinion leaders from the gastronomic scene around the world are brought together in Seoul by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, the agriculture 

ministry will hold a Korean food workshop where chefs from across the region will have an opportunity to experience Korea’s diverse food ingredients 

and cultures regarding fermented foods, meat-cooking culture (e.g. deboning), temple food, etc. At the Chefs’ Feast and a reception of the awards 

ceremony, Korea’s Michelin-starred chefs and rising young chefs will showcase the essence of Korean cuisine by using haute cuisine ingredients 

such as hanwoo (Korean beef), abalones, red tile fish, spring greens, meju (fermented soybean bricks), etc.

Director General Yang Joo-pil of the Food Industry Policy Bureau of the agriculture ministry said: “I hope that this international event will serve as 

an opportunity to make Korea globally known as a gastronomic destination for tourists, as well as to make Korean foods more widely popular and enjoyed 

across the world. I also hope that this event will serve as an opportunity to give a new motivation for people in the food service industry and young 

chefs in Korea so that Korean food and the food service industry will advance to the next level.”