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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 14 bars
Best bars in Gwangju
The 10 most notable bars in Gwangju, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
비워두기
봉선2동 497-2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.597, percentile 100 of 14
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2
하우스 인 리버틴
광주광역시 서구 시청로 50번길 21, 1-2층
515 m from Uncheon Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.297, percentile 92.31 of 14
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3
보틀벙커 상무점
Sicheong-ro, 40, LOTTE Mart MAXX, Gwangju Sangmu, 3층
634 m from Uncheon Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.191, percentile 84.62 of 14
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4
후크
지산동 507-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.087, percentile 76.92 of 14
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5
동명루프탑
Jang-dong, 번지 3호 67-14 4층
408 m from Culture Complex Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 1.901, percentile 69.23 of 14
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6
조우
광주광역시 북구 용봉동 151ㅡ80번지
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.802, percentile 61.54 of 14
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7
야광장
광주광역시 서구 시청로50번길 15 (치평동)
417 m from Sangmu Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.793, percentile 53.85 of 14
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8
Lucchetto Jazz Bars
봉선중앙로 123번길 10번지 지하
669 m from Byeokdo Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.755, percentile 46.15 of 14
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9
투바틀
광주광역시 광산구 임방울대로826번길25
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.644, percentile 38.46 of 14
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10
88포장마차 첨단점
71 Imbangul-daero 800beon-gil
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.590, percentile 30.77 of 14
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).