Restaurants mentioned in the cookbook Discovering Korean Cuisine: Recipes from the Best Korean Restaurants in Los Angeles (2007) with the featured recipes from each establishment.
This restaurant is famous for its specialty of mudfish stew.
Gupojip / Gu Po Jib is a Korean restaurant on 8th & Berendo whose house specialty is mudfish (choo-wo). Has a thirty-year tradition of serving mudfish stew (chuotang), which is also available for takeout. Open until 9:00 pm on most days.
In 2010, the Los Angeles City Council formally declared Koreatown's borders as Western Avenue, Olympic Boulevard, Vermont Avenue, and 3rd Street, with a business corridor on Western from 3rd to Rosewood Avenue.