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Fort Lauderdale Korean Guide

FRI public-record essay for korean restaurants in Fort Lauderdale.

Fort Lauderdale's Korean scene separates into public-record tiers by licence age and menu format, defined in the classification legend below. FRI classifies format and discipline from public records only. It does not infer cultural ownership from names; owner/operator references are limited to Sunbiz and DBPR entities.

Updated 2026-08-31 14:37 UTC

By FRI Editorial Desk · Classification guide

Price and service-format claims are withheld. License seating, OSS category, and chain footprint are not observed menu prices; a future price analysis must use sourced menu/check data and local-market normalization.

Validated open entries 17 · ·

Confirmed closures 1 · ·

Inspection/safety overlays 0 · ·

Filtered candidates 0 · ·

Classification Legend

Moderate

No other signal matched. The default tier, not a middling score -- most venues land here because the public record simply says little about format.

Tradition-Focused

A named traditional format appears in the record -- sushi, ramen, bbq, tandoor, dosa, kimchi or pho. A menu signal, not a claim about authenticity or ownership.

FRI does not infer cultural ownership from names. Classifications are based on public-record entity, license age, category, and format signals.

Moderate

2021

Chick Fil A Davie South 4272

Unverified

5700 S University Dr, Davie

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Korean Corn Dog

Unverified

8021 Nw 44 Ct, Lauderhill

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Korean Kitchen

Unverified

5110 Sw 166Th Ave, Southwest Ranches

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Minji's Cafe

7151 W Oakland Park Blvd, Lauderhill

Chef/operator credit from public record: 365 K FOOD INC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Namu

Unverified

10317 Royal Palm Blvd, Coral Springs

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Sovereign

Unverified

9723 W Broward Blvd, Plantation

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

U Know Restaurant

290 S Sr 7, Hollywood

Chef/operator credit from public record: WON SEOUL INC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Wahbi Sabi Restaurant

Unverified

10032 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2019

Yum Korea

Unverified

1669 Market St, Weston

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Tradition-Focused

year not resolved

Chow One Korean Bbq & Buffet

8369 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines

Chef/operator credit from public record: CHOW ONE, INC..

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Gabose Pocha

4933 N University Dr, Lauderhill

Chef/operator credit from public record: GABOCHA, INC..

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Gabose Rest

Unverified

4991 N University Dr, Lauderhill

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2023

Gen Korean Bbq House

Unverified

1301 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Hallyu Korean Bbq

6800 N University Dr, Tamarac

Chef/operator credit from public record: HALLYU KOREAN BBQ, LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Hi Pot

Unverified

620 N University Dr, Pembroke Pines

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Myung Ga Tofu & Bbq

1944 Weston Road, Weston

Chef/operator credit from public record: COREAN FOOD WESTON LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

year not resolved

Prime Kbbq

1361 S University Dr, Plantation

Chef/operator credit from public record: J&M RESTAURANT GROUP, LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Methodology and Audit

Entries clear the FRI cascade on DBPR status, closure vetting, and cuisine attribution. Identity enrichment (DBPR/OSS/Sunbiz name agreement, geocoded address, city/county consistency, plus cached Google/Foursquare/Yelp verifier context) refines a listing but is no longer a publish gate: a DBPR record that fails only enrichment is still shown rather than dropped. A record that cannot be matched to an identity is marked "Unverified DBPR Record" and its unverified corporate/website/social attribution is withheld; a record that cannot be geocoded is recorded as un-located. Failures and enrichment levels are written to output/cuisine_essay_audit.parquet for operator review.

18 of 18 candidate evaluations published (100.0%); 11 marked unverified (no identity match), 4 recorded as un-located (no geocode). Audit log: output/cuisine_essay_audit.parquet.

Data sources: FRI Cuisine Essays. Built from DBPR public inspection records, Florida Sunbiz business filings, and Foursquare/OSS location data. All counts are derived from public records — no estimates or projections unless labeled as forecast.

Time-series forecasts and anomaly detection use NVIDIA NV-Tesseract. Model output is labeled separately from official records.