Korean Job Discussion Forums

[waltjocketty]

red mango, pinkberry, and mr. pizza are all in LA. also, a sundubu shop started in LA is open in Korea now and it's called BCD Tofu House (www.bcdtofu.com). Also, I've come across Woori Bank somewhere on Wilshire in LA.

[Dome Vans]

When I go to buy one of my favourite bites, french bread from the bakery, I'm always shocked when they try to give me a little tub of whipped cream to go with it.

It's just not butter!!!!

[kapshida]

Kyochon is good, but BBQ has the best fried chicken I've ever tasted. I think that would do great in the US, especially if they set it up more like a kfc with meals available, as well as the full orders.

Maybe they'd have to change the "Olive Luxury Chicken" motto though...

[endo]

I was thinking about buying a two story building with a large basement back home and develope it based on my experiences in Korea.

The basement would be a norebang.

The first floo would be a kalbi/samgypsal restaurant.

And the top floor would be a PC room.


That place would make money!

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[Tiger Beer]

None of the above!

But, I do like the fastfood Korean BBQ type places, they already exist though, especially in Hawaii and wherever high Korean populations exist back home.

[rumdiary]

That garbage may taste good after a month of nothing but kimchijiggae and Hite, but if you try to pass it off to a sane person who can walk down the street to a place that sells better crappy food for less (like any street in America) nobody would eat there. Except Koreans.

[Fox]

I'd open a Kimbab Nara before any of the things listed in the poll. Decent variety, reasonable quality, very cheap, lots of potential for carry out.

[nukeday]

I'd open up a Hansot. I think it fits what Americans think Asian food should be: cheap portions of meat and rice.

[Steelrails]

Korean fast food in the west? That would sell? Maybe a cake joint...one thing Korea does pretty well is make cakes that don't make your teeth feel like they are about to fall off when you eat them. They'd have to avoid most other kinds of Korean "baking" like the plague though....except for Hoduk and those cream filled fish-shaped snacks. They could also go after the gluten-free crowd by offering some rice based baked goods. Actually a Korean bakery wouldn't be half bad if it just stuck to the winners....

Other than that.....Maybe a dumpling place...Daegu Handmade Dumpling brand dumplings are amazing. A bit too narrowly focused though...

Maybe, maybe, an All Things Korean Chicken place that would serve Green Onion Chicken, Curry Fried Chicken, Ganchang and YangNyum, and Dalk Kalbi all under one roof and ready to go fast.

Toast is iffy. I mean it'd have to be part of something else, like a coffee shop or something. Maybe it could be combined with the bakery...but that would be too diverse I think.

I'm not really sure how well they'd take though....

The only other thing I could think of is bottling KongGukSu broth and selling it as some sort of breakfast drink.

[UknowsI]

[Caffeinated]

Isn't Lotteria a Japanese company? Or is this another case of an SK company infringing on a foreign brand?

I'd say galbi restaurant but customers may not like cooking their own food and smelling like cooked meat afterwards.

[nukeday]

Yeah, Lotteria (and Lotte) is a Japanese company, founded by a Korean-Japanese, but it's much more popular in Korea than in Japan.

Fun Lotte facts:

Lotte Holdings Co., Ltd. - Lotte group's world headquarters - are located in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It is controlled by the founder Shin Kyuk-Ho's family.

* Lotte of Korea employs 56,369 with a revenue of 41 trillion won in 2008 and has 53 companies[1] in South Korea
* Lotte of Japan employs 3,600 with a revenue of 448 billion yen in 2006.

Lotte Group's total assets are approximately 50 billion USD (Lotte Korea $40 Billion, Lotte Japan $10 Billion).

Lotteria started in Japan in 1972, but it took until 1979 to open in Korea.

[DorkothyParker]

Kimbab Nara or Kimbab Heaven are definitely the forerunners, I should think.

Korean fried chicken is always tasty, but the only kind that really excited and amazed me was the Chickie Pub. I hear there is one in Seattle and it's doing well. Strangely, they have kimchi and some Korean soups, I think.

[Hyeon Een]