A Korean neighbourhood in London · 30 April – 3 May 2027
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Google Trends · "korean food london" · UK · five years
For five years, this line barely moved.
Not even a global Netflix hit moved it. Then, for one week — festival week — it hit its five-year peak.
Attention doesn't mobilize people. Opportunity does. We built the door.
Source: Google Trends, web search, United Kingdom, Jul 2021 – Jul 2026. 100 = peak interest.
2026 · by the numbers
When the door opened, London ran through it.
≈15,000
walked up in the first two days alone — and King’s Cross recorded its highest sales on record, above Christmas Eve
0
for tickets to sell out — all 4,133, gone in three hours · £0 ad spend
0%
UK-based attendees — global press, British feet
0
people set foot in King's Cross for the first time in their lives
0%
aged 25–34 — young professionals, the habit-forming years
Every corner of London came
Attendees by London postcode region (4,133 ticketed) — an even pull across the whole city, no single-community cluster. Plus 1,491 who travelled from beyond London.
The 2027 concept
Not a festival in a hall. A Korean neighbourhood — a district of doorways.
↑ Click each shop. Every shop has three parts: a story, something you make, something you take home. Brands shown are examples — nothing announced yet.
Walk the district
Story
Each shop opens with the story only that brand can tell.
You make
Something with your hands — the moment people film without being asked.
Take home
Proof you crossed the neighbourhood.
The postcard · every shop is a stamp
Postcard complete — you lived the whole neighbourhood. 🎁
The partnership
Not a logo on a banner. A shop with your name on the door.
Your shop in the neighbourhood
Story
The story only your brand can tell.
You make
A make-your-own experience — the moment people film without being asked.
Take home
Your product, in their hands and on their feeds.
A doorway, not a stall
Your own space in the neighbourhood, co-designed with us — the Seongsu pop-up model, transplanted to London.
Your stamp on every postcard
Every visitor carries a postcard; completing it wins a prize. Every one of them walks through your door to finish it.
The content engine
Rollin’s 210k audience built this festival in public. 100+ creators filmed it. Your shop is designed to be filmed.
Beyond the four days
A weekly 포장마차 street-food market through summer and autumn keeps the neighbourhood — and your presence — alive.
The audience is the one you can’t buy: curious, mid-crossing, UK-based — the people who take Korean food from the oriental shelf to the normal shelf.
Three ways into the neighbourhood
We manufacture first times.
First mandu. First somaek. First kimchi. Jung gathers the people meeting Korean food and culture for the first time — and first times become habits, habits become customers.
Tier 1 · limited places
In the Neighbourhood
£5,000
Brand presence across the festival — signage & sampling
Presence on the festival map
Press & social mentions
Being seen by the curious.
Tier 2
Your Stall
£15,000
Everything in Tier 1
A staffed stall in the neighbourhood — sell, sample, meet
Your stamp on every visitor’s postcard
A social feature with Rollin
Being met by the curious.
Tier 3 · six zones only
The Zone Takeover
from £25,000
Everything in Tiers 1–2
A zone with your name on it + co-created activation: story · make-your-own · take-home
Content package — Rollin + creator coverage of your shop
포장마차 summer market presence · first refusal for 2028
Being remembered as someone’s first time.
What the venue gets · who's operating
The crowd is the story. The press follows it.
The halo, 2026
38 press outlets covered the festival — BBC Radio 4 among them
10M+ social views · 100+ creators on site · £0 ad spend
188.9M claimed press reach — and 99% of the feet were British
Search interest for Korean food in London: five-year peak, festival week
Safe hands
Council required mid-event ticketing in 2026 — implemented overnight, sold out in three hours, zero incidents
HYBE's named London operating partner — BTS THE CITY, July 2026
In partnership talks with Eventim Live UK
Backed by aT, the Korean Embassy, KCC · vendors near-unanimous to return
Where this goes next
Six shops. First conversations now.
The dates
Friday 30 April – Monday 3 May 2027 (bank holiday weekend) — a landmark central London venue, in final conversations.
The product
An anchor shop, co-created: your story, a make-your-own experience, a take-home. Not placement — a place.
The timing
The venue locks this summer, and anchor shops are being placed now. 2026 sponsors are already asking to return.
The next step
A design session — we bring the neighbourhood, you bring the brand. hello@jungfestival.uk
One weekend made London search for Korean food like never before. Put your shop inside the next one.