Michelin Guide Seoul & Busan 2026: Mosu Returns With Two Stars

The MICHELIN Guide Seoul & Busan 2026 was announced on 5 March 2026 at Signiel Busan, on Haeundae Beach, the first time the ceremony had been held in the southern port city. It was the tenth edition of the guide in Korea. The selection lists 233 restaurants, 178 in Seoul and 55 in Busan, and 46 of them hold stars, ten of them newly awarded or promoted, a record for the Korean guide.

Mingles remains the only restaurant in the country with three stars, for the second year. Its chef, Kang Min-goo, has for more than a decade worked on a contemporary Korean cuisine built on jang, the fermented sauces and pastes that are the foundation of Korean cooking, and the guide described the restaurant as the pinnacle of Korean gastronomy.

Two restaurants were newly awarded two stars. Sosuheon, a sushi counter, was promoted from one. Mosu, the restaurant of Ahn Sung-jae, returned to the guide at two stars. It had held three stars before closing in 2024, when its chef became known to a far wider public as a judge on a television cooking competition, and it reopened in a new location in 2025. Seoul now has ten two-star restaurants.

Four restaurants in Seoul received a first star: Gaggen by Choi Junho, Hakusi, Jueun and Sushi Kanesaka. In Busan, Le Dorer was promoted to one star, bringing the city’s total to four, and its chef, Kim Chang-uk, received the young chef award. The opening of the year was also in Busan: Iaán, by chef An Lee.

Mitou, a two-star Japanese restaurant in Seoul, and Gosari Express, a Bib Gourmand, hold the Green Star for sustainable practice. Seventy-one restaurants have a Bib Gourmand.

Gwendal Poullennec, the guide’s international director, said that Korea had become a mature, confident and multilayered culinary scene over the decade, with Seoul balancing tradition and innovation and Busan emerging as a dynamic centre of its own. The guide first covered Seoul in the 2017 edition and added Busan in 2024.

The ceremony’s venue, Signiel Busan, is the sister of Signiel Seoul. Our Seoul guide has more on where to eat in the capital.