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Korean dining etiquette for foreigners comes down to 9 habits, and letting elders go first matters most. Wait for the oldest person to start eating. Pour drinks for other people, never for yourself, and take a glass with two hands. Pay at the counter on your way out and don’t leave a tip.
How to eat Korean BBQ comes down to 5 steps: order a cut, grill it, snip it, wrap it and pour drinks. The meat cooks at your table, you eat it wrapped in lettuce with garlic and a smear of sauce, and you pour drinks for each other instead of for yourself. Get those basics right and you’ll look at home in any gogi-jip (meat restaurant) from Seoul to Los Angeles.