Los Angeles · Korean
Jinsol Gukbap
Third Street Busan-style dwaeji gukbap for long-simmered pork rice soup, suyuk belly slices, and kimchi stew you season at the table.
- Price
- $$
- Opened
- 2015
- Neighborhood
- Koreatown4031 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90020
About
Jinsol Gukbap opened in late 2015 in a Koreatown strip mall as a Busan specialist built around dwaeji gukbap, the pork rice soup that defines many of that port city’s working lunchrooms. The house simmered broth arrives lightly seasoned so you finish it yourself with saeujeot (fermented shrimp), sesame, salt, and banchan; rice and thin flour noodles go in when you are ready. Eater covered the room within weeks of opening; LA Weekly, Food GPS, Time Out, and The Infatuation (8.8) still treat it as Koreatown’s reference pork-soup stop. Order the plain gukbap for a solo reset, suyuk pork belly slices when you want more meat than broth, or the giant pork-belly kimchi stew for a table. Marinated pork ribs, jjimdak, and cold noodles round out group nights. This page covers the Third Street original (4031 W 3rd); a later Eighth Street sibling keeps later hours. Confirm live addresses if an older listing still shows 4253.
Menu highlights
- Dwaeji gukbap (pork rice soup; DIY seasoning)
- Suyuk pork belly slices in concentrated broth
- Kimchi stew with pork belly (shareable cauldron)
- Marinated spicy pork ribs; jjimdak; cold noodles
Diners say
Public reviews praise the deep pork broth, thin belly slices, generous banchan, fair prices, and a calm room that works for solo lunch or a rainy-day reset. Recurring friction includes hands-off service (you may need to wave for refills), waits at peak lunch, and a menu that is less exciting if you are not in a pork-soup mood. Diners who like it usually come for gukbap first and treat ribs or jjimdak as optional extras.
Review synthesis as of 2026-07-31. Synthesis of recurring themes in public Yelp and Google Maps reviews sampled July 2026; not a rating or ranking. Cross-checked against jinsolgukbap.net, Eater LA (Jan 2016), The Infatuation (Oct 2025), Time Out, Food GPS, and LA Weekly quotes on the house press page. Michelin Guide restaurant page not found as of research pass. Soft address note: house site and Time Out use 4031 W 3rd; some older guides still list 4253.