About SafePlate Korea

Why this site exists

SafePlate Korea turns an allergy or a diet restriction into a Korean order card that you can show to restaurant staff. It is made for visitors who cannot read a Korean menu and cannot explain in Korean what they have to avoid.

The Korean sentences that the card is built from, and the labels of the allergy items, are fixed text written and reviewed in advance, so nothing on the card is generated or translated while you use the site. There is one exception: whatever you type in the free text field for other ingredients to avoid is placed on the card exactly as you typed it, without translation. SafePlate Korea works this way because an invented or mistranslated word about an allergy is a safety risk rather than a small mistake, so the site keeps your own wording instead of guessing at it.

Where the allergy list comes from

The site offers 27 allergy items. 19 of them are the full set of ingredients that the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety requires food businesses to label, and the other 8 are supplementary items that travelers ask about often but that the Korean labeling rule does not cover.

Each item records which of those two groups it came from, and the Korean wording ships as fixed data that is checked when the site is built, so a missing or empty label stops the build instead of reaching the card.

The list describes what the card can say. It is not medical advice, and it does not replace asking the restaurant directly about how a dish is made.

Who runs this site

SafePlate Korea is an independent project run by one individual and supported by the advertising shown on the site. It is not a company, a government service, or a public body, and it is not affiliated with any restaurant or food business.

Corrections to the Korean wording and any other question are welcome at contact@safeplatekorea.com. The address is plain text rather than a link.