About Banchan Korea

Banchan Korea is a site about Korean home cooking and food culture for people who discovered Korea through dramas, music or travel — and want to cook it at home.

Our recipes follow standard Korean home cooking. We show Korean names and pronunciation, explain where a dish fits in daily life, and suggest swaps for ingredients that are hard to find outside Korea.

About our images: the food pictures on this site are AI-generated illustrations, not photographs, and each one is labeled. We use them to show what a dish looks like; the recipe text is what you cook from.

The site is new and growing: more recipes, convenience-store picks and a community space are on the way. It is available in English and Spanish.