Seoul: Kimchi Making Class & Mangwon Market with Takeaway

You'll Make Kimchi Four Ways, Then Eat What You Made

You'll meet your guide at Mangwon Metro Station and explore the local market before heading to a private cooking studio where you prepare four types of kimchi from scratch at your own table. After tasting your work alongside boiled pork and fried tofu, you take home over 1kg of kimchi in a provided container, plus a cookbook. The whole experience takes one morning or afternoon, and vegetarian options are available.

Step-by-step itinerary

Kimchi making and market tour

• Meet at Mangwon Metro Station entrance 2
• Explore Mangwon Market and taste street foods
• Walk to cooking studio
• Learn to make four types of Kimchi
• Enjoy Kimchi with boiled pork and fried tofu

The experience

There's something about standing in a Korean kitchen with your hands in cabbage and radish that makes you want to understand how people actually cook. You meet Jomin at Mangwon Metro Station entrance 2, and before you even get to the studio, you're walking through the market with him: the one that fills up early and smells like fermented things and fresh produce all at once. He points out the ingredients you're about to use: Korean cabbage, radish, cucumber. You taste street food as you go, and it's the kind of wandering that makes a city feel less like a place you're visiting and less like a checklist.

The cooking studio is where the actual work starts. You get your own table and cooker, and Jomin walks you through making four types of kimchi: two cabbage, one radish, one cucumber. It's not a demo where you watch. You're doing it, your hands in the paste, adjusting seasoning, learning the texture that tells you it's right. The class runs small (minimum four people), so there's room to ask questions and move at your own pace. You taste as you go, and by the time you're done, you've made more than a kilogram of kimchi that goes into a container you take with you.

Then you sit down to eat. Boiled pork, fried tofu, rice, the kimchi you just made, and rice wine. It's how Korean families do it, and you're eating something you made an hour ago. You leave with a professionally designed cookbook, so the thing you learned doesn't stop when you get home. It's the kind of class where you actually repeat it, because you know how now.

What’s included

Your day includes meeting your guide at Mangwon Metro Station, a tour of the local market with tastings, a private cooking table and cooker at the studio, all fresh ingredients for four types of kimchi, water and rice wine, a meal of boiled pork, fried tofu, and rice served with your homemade kimchi, a plastic container to take home over 1kg of kimchi, and a professionally designed cookbook. Vegetarian and vegan meal options are available.

Before you book

Days and timesEvery dayDepartures at 10:00 and 18:00

Book up to1h before

AgesAdult (18 and older) · Child (4 to 17 years) · Under 4: can't be booked

GroupUp to 11

Live guideEnglish

Meeting point and pickupNo hotel pickup: you go to the meeting point. Ends back at the starting point.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.It may be canceled if the minimum number of travelers isn't reached. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund.

Prices and times updated 3 days ago

Good to know

Stroller-friendlyPublic transport nearby

Operated by cookorean

Is this one for you?This works well if you want to learn something you can actually do at home, not just watch and forget: the small group size and private table mean you move at your own pace, and you leave with enough kimchi to remember how it's done.

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Top questions

Can children come?

Yes. Ticket types: Child (4 to 17 years). Children under 4 can't be included in the booking.

Where do I meet the guide?

At Mangwon Metro Station (Line 6), entrance 2. The market tour starts from there before you head to the cooking studio.

Do I need cooking experience?

No. This is a hands-on class for beginners. You'll learn to make four types of kimchi from scratch with guidance from Jomin.

What do I take home?

Over 1kg of kimchi in a plastic container, plus a professionally designed cookbook with recipes and techniques.

Is there food included?

Yes. You taste street food during the market tour, sample kimchi during class, and eat a full meal of boiled pork, fried tofu, rice, and your homemade kimchi with rice wine.

Are vegetarian options available?

Yes. Vegetarian and vegan options are available for the meal portion of the class.

What's the minimum group size?

Four people. If the class doesn't meet the minimum, it can be rescheduled or canceled.

What's included in the price?

Market tour with your guide, private cooking table and cooker, all fresh ingredients, the meal, water, rice wine, the kimchi container, and a cookbook.