South Korea is known worldwide for its food, and one cherry on top — especially in hot, humid weather — is its unique and flavourful ice cream. Unique in flavors, textures, shapes, and packaging, Korean ice cream is sure to grab your attention. Here are the most popular and best ice creams in Korea you cannot miss.
1. Chal Oksusu — Korean corn ice cream (a Jungkook favorite) shaped like corn with a puff-pastry shell, chocolate and vanilla inside, and real corn kernels.
2. Melona — A summer essential ice lolly in flavors like strawberry, banana, and coconut.
3. Samanco — A fish-shaped ice cream like frozen Bungeoppang, filled with vanilla ice cream and red bean, strawberry, or green tea paste.
4. Milkis — A creamy, yogurt-flavored frozen version of the famous soft drink.
5. Sukbar Bar — Shaped and flavored like watermelon; fresh and cooling.
6. Pangtoa — A Korean-style ice cream sandwich in flavors like cookies and cream, red velvet, vanilla, and strawberry.
7. Jaws Bar — A shark-jaw shaped popsicle with a hard gray outer layer and sweet strawberry center.
8. Pangpare (Fanfare) — A classic crispy wafer cone, with vanilla the enduring favorite.
9. Bravo Cone — On the market since the 1970s; the first cone ice cream by Haitai, holding a Guinness record as longest-living ice cream brand.
10. Together — One of the best-selling vanilla ice creams, the first to use raw milk; great with toppings.
11. Double Bianco — White vanilla ice cream topped with strawberry syrup over white apple sherbet, served with a spoon.
12. Dwe Ji Ba (Pig Bar) — Released for the 1983 Year of the Pig; milky vanilla coated in chocolate cookie crust with strawberry jam center.