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When you want Korean food delivered to your door — from fried chicken to malatang — which are the main delivery apps?

Baemin and Coupang Eats
Baemin (Baedal Minjok) and Coupang Eats are the two big delivery apps. You pick a menu, pay by card, and it's delivered to your address, with a minimum order and delivery tip. Karrot is secondhand/local info; Toss is money transfer and finance — different tools.

Baemin (short for Baedal Minjok) and Coupang Eats are the two dominant food-delivery apps in Korea, letting users browse restaurant menus, order everything from fried chicken to malatang, pay by card within the app, and track a courier's real-time delivery to their door, usually with a minimum order amount and an optional delivery tip. Their scale reflects how central delivery culture has become to everyday Korean dining, especially in dense urban apartment living.

Karrot is a neighborhood secondhand-goods and local-information app, not a food-delivery service, and Toss is a money-transfer and personal-finance app — both are genuinely popular Korean apps, just built for entirely different purposes than ordering dinner.

Korea's delivery culture predates app-based ordering by decades, since phone-based delivery for dishes like jjajangmyeon was already common; Baemin and Coupang Eats essentially digitized and expanded a habit that was already deeply rooted in daily life.

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