# Korea Convenience Food Guide

> Korea Convenience Food Guide explains Korean convenience store foods such as samgak gimbap, dosirak and cup noodles, and how to read their package labels, using Korea Tourism Organization and Ministry of Food and Drug Safety materials.

## About the publisher

- Publisher: Hanipgyeol Food Study Group (editorial name), Korea Convenience Food Guide (https://kcstorefood.org/)
- Nature: It sells nothing, carries no advertising or affiliate links, and does not recommend, rank or review any product, brand or store.
- Other language: https://kcstorefood.org/ko (한국 편의점음식 안내소)
- Contact: info@kcstorefood.org

## Topic hubs

- [Korean convenience store food types](https://kcstorefood.org/topics/food-types): Korean convenience store food falls into a few groups, and each group has one label line worth reading first.
- [Korean convenience store food labels](https://kcstorefood.org/topics/food-labels): A Korean convenience store food label has four parts worth learning: allergens, use-by date and storage, the microwave mark, and the nutrition basis.

## Tools (run in the browser, nothing stored)

- [Korea convenience food label finder](https://kcstorefood.org/tools/food-label-finder): The Korea Convenience Food Guide label finder turns a food and a question into the exact parts of the package to read.
- [Korea convenience food nutrition sum](https://kcstorefood.org/tools/nutrition-sum): The Korea Convenience Food Guide nutrition sum adds label values for the amounts you ate and marks any total with a missing value as incomplete.

## Articles

- [Korean convenience store dosirak labels](https://kcstorefood.org/articles/dosirak): A convenience store dosirak is read in two layers: what the dishes are made of, and how the tray and lid should be stored and heated.
- [Korean convenience store cup noodle instructions](https://kcstorefood.org/articles/cup-noodles): A convenience store cup noodle is prepared the way its own package says: hot water and microwave instructions are not interchangeable.
- [Korean convenience food allergen labels](https://kcstorefood.org/articles/allergen-labels): On a Korean convenience food package, the ingredient list, the allergen box and the cross-contact caution give three different pieces of information and are read together.
- [Korean convenience food use-by dates](https://kcstorefood.org/articles/use-by-dates): A use-by date on a Korean convenience food is read together with the storage method printed beside it; the date assumes that storage was kept.
- [Korean convenience food microwave packaging](https://kcstorefood.org/articles/microwave-packaging): Whether a Korean convenience food package may be microwaved is answered by its own microwave-use mark and instructions, not by its material.
- [Korean convenience food nutrition label comparison](https://kcstorefood.org/articles/nutrition-labels): Convenience food nutrition labels are compared only after the basis amount, the unit and the product match; a blank value is missing data, not zero.

## Key pages

- [About Korea Convenience Food Guide](https://kcstorefood.org/about)
- [Korea Convenience Food Guide FAQ](https://kcstorefood.org/faq)
- [Korean convenience food label glossary](https://kcstorefood.org/glossary)
- Feeds: https://kcstorefood.org/rss.xml (RSS), https://kcstorefood.org/feed.xml (Atom)
- Append /index.md to any page address for a Markdown copy: https://kcstorefood.org/about/index.md

## Editorial rules

- The package in your hand comes first; this site explains where to look on it.
- A blank label field or a missing database value is never read as “free of” anything.
- No product rankings, brand picks, health claims or vegan and halal verdicts.
- No disease, health or weight-loss claims are made about any food (Act on Labeling and Advertising of Foods, Article 8).
- Nutrition values are never invented; data pages stay in draft until a dated snapshot is collected.
- Primary sources (public bodies) are marked separately from other sources.