Best Burgers in Daejeon: Where to Look

The best burgers in Daejeon are found in three areas: Dunsan-dong, the newer downtown around City Hall and the government complex; Eunhaeng-dong, the old centre near Daejeon Station; and Yuseong-gu, home to KAIST, Chungnam National University and the student streets of Gung-dong. Daejeon has little documented burger history, so these central and student districts are where to look first.

Daejeon is known in Korea as a science city. It hosts the Daedeok research complex, held the 1993 Expo, and its universities and institutes give it a large population of students and researchers. Its food reputation, though, rests on other things: kalguksu, knife-cut noodle soup, and bakeries that draw visitors from across the country. That makes the city a bread town before a burger town, and a well-made bun is a fair thing to judge a Daejeon burger on. Daejeon Station is about an hour from Seoul by KTX, so many visitors start downtown.

Burgers in Daejeon: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Dunsan-dong, Eunhaeng-dong, Gung-dong and the wider Yuseong area.
• Local specialties: kalguksu noodles and a bakery culture known across Korea.
• Who eats out: students and researchers from KAIST, Chungnam National University and the Daedeok institutes.
• Getting there: about an hour from Seoul on the KTX to Daejeon Station.
• Getting around: Daejeon Metro Line 1 links the old centre, Dunsan-dong and Yuseong.
• Currency: won (KRW), the only currency in our Daejeon price checks.

Every guide we publish on Daejeon is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. Other Korean cities have their own pages in our burger restaurants section.