CU Inkigayo Replica
CU's version of the idol sandwich. Slightly different ratios of potato salad to jam. The competition between convenience store chains to ...
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CU — Ham & Cheese Sandwich
Simple ham and cheese on white bread with mayo. ₩1,800-2,200. A budget staple for students and workers.
CU — Egg Salad Sandwich
The bestselling convenience store sandwich format. Soft white bread, sweet egg salad, sometimes with ham. ₩2,000-2,500. The default quick...
CU Convenience Store Sandwich Line
CU (formerly FamilyMart Korea) — Korea's largest convenience store chain. Sandwich line includes classic egg salad, BLT, chicken breast, ...
CU — Chicken Breast Sandwich
Grilled chicken breast with vegetables. Part of the health-conscious 'protein' trend in Korean convenience stores targeting gym-goers.
Crookie Sandwich
Croissant + cookie hybrid — a trend popularized in Korea that spreads globally. Split and used as a sandwich vessel. The 'crookie' repres...
Croffle Sandwich (크로플 샌드위치)
Croissant dough pressed in a waffle iron, then used as sandwich bread. Crispy, flaky, honeycomb-patterned. A Korean invention that went g...
Croffin Sandwich (크로핀 샌드위치)
The croffin (croissant + muffin hybrid) split and filled. Part of Korea's obsession with bakery trend cycles. Korean bakeries are the wor...
Cream Cheese Garlic Bread
A round milk-bread bun cut into six joined wedges, piped full of sweetened cream cheese, dunked in a garlic-butter-egg wash, then double-baked. Korea's 2019 bakery hit, torn apart by hand.
Chicken Gangjeong Sandwich
Sweet-spicy fried chicken (gangjeong style — sticky gochujang-honey glaze) in sandwich form. Korea's $5B+ fried chicken industry in bread...
Cheese Hot Dog Toast
Buttered griddled milk bread around an egg-cabbage pancake, a split hot dog, and cheese, finished with sugar and ketchup. Korea's loaded take on gilgeori street toast.
Casablanca Sandwicherie
Seoul's #1-rated sandwich shop on Tripadvisor. Run by two Moroccan brothers (Wahid and Karim Naciri) in Haebangcheon. Five sandwiches: Mo...
Busan Fish Cake Toast (부산 어묵 토스트)
Busan is Korea's fish cake capital. Local toast shops incorporate premium Busan eomuk (fish cake) into their toast. Denser, fishier, more...
Busan BIFF Toast
The street toast Seoul eats one-handed, scaled up for a crowd standing still: a double patty, a layer of bulgogi or a cutlet, sold among the cinema neon of Busan's BIFF Square.
Burger King Korea — Bulgogi Whopper
Flame-grilled beef with sweet soy-based bulgogi sauce. The 'perfect Korean sweet-salty flavor combo' on a Whopper. Locals consider it sur...
Bungeoppang Sandwich (붕어빵)
Fish-shaped pastry (bungeoppang) filled with red bean paste, custard, or pizza cheese, split open as a sandwich. A Korean winter street f...
Bulgogi Sandwich
Sweet soy, sesame and grated pear seared hard onto thin beef, then sealed behind spicy mayo inside a sturdy roll: the oldest grilled-beef recipe in Korea, moved off the brazier.
Buldak Chicken Sandwich (불닭)
Borrowed heat from a viral noodle packet: a fried fillet lacquered in buldak fire-sauce, sweet then scorching, with cheese, mayo and pickle doing everything they can to carry it.
Bossam Ssam (보쌈 쌈)
A salted cabbage leaf, a slice of warm boiled pork, ssamjang, raw garlic, a pinch of spicy radish, folded closed by hand: bossam is the Korean wrap you build yourself, one bite at a time.
BBQ Chicken Sandwich
BBQ Chicken (BBQ치킨), one of Korea's largest chicken chains, offers chicken sandwiches. 'Genesis BBQ' is expanding internationally with a ...
7-Eleven — Triangle Kimbap (삼각김밥)
Not bread-based but Korea's most consumed grab-and-go 'sandwich' by volume. Seaweed-wrapped triangular rice with fillings: tuna mayo, kim...
7-Eleven Korea Sandwich Line
7-Eleven Korea's sandwich offerings alongside their massive samgak kimbap (triangle rice ball) business. Egg, tuna, and ham sandwiches ar...
7-Eleven Inkigayo Version
7-Eleven Korea's entry into the Inkigayo sandwich wars. Available at 13,000+ stores. Each chain claims closest match to the SBS original.
Zeitoun (زيتون)
Olives; green or black, served with sandwiches.