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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 19 breweries

Best breweries in Seoul

The 10 most notable breweries in Seoul, 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.

  1. 1

    Goose Island Brewhouse

    118 Yeoksam-ro

    647 m from Gangnam Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.354, percentile 100 of 19

  2. 2

    BHC동대문점

    을지로44길 10, 2층

    140 m from Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station, metro

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.338, percentile 94.44 of 19

  3. 3

    MysterLee Brewing Co

    311 Dongmak-ro

    336 m from Gongdeok Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.309, percentile 88.89 of 19

  4. 4

    가로수 브루잉 컴퍼니

    신사동 518-13

    411 m from Sinsa Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.200, percentile 83.33 of 19

  5. 5

    Brew 3.14

    39 Donhwamun-ro 11na-gil

    454 m from Anguk Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.194, percentile 77.78 of 19

  6. 6

    히든트랙브루잉 - HiddenTrack Brewing

    옥천면 신복리

    435 m from Anam Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.067, percentile 72.22 of 19

  7. 7

    온지술도가

    26 B1 Tongil-ro 65-gil

    237 m from Bulgwang Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.058, percentile 66.67 of 19

  8. 8

    브롱스 동여의도점

    17 Yeouidaebang-ro 65-gil

    260 m from Saetgang Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.913, percentile 61.11 of 19

  9. 9

    이태원소주집

    이태원동 457-3

    143 m from Noksapyeong Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.797, percentile 55.56 of 19

  10. 10

    자가양조공간soma

    서울특별시 관악구 봉천로27길 41, 지하1충

    504 m from Oksu Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.746, percentile 50 of 19

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).