CatchTable in Seoul: how it works for visitors
What CatchTable is, what a visitor can do on it, and how the Seoul restaurants we watch behave.
- English version for visitors
- 14 Seoul restaurants measured
- What it is
- A Korean reservation and waitlist app. Its English version, CatchTable Global, is aimed at visitors.
- Sign-up
- A Google or Apple account is enough, per the Korea Tourism Organization; no Korean phone number needed.
- Deposits
- Many reservation-only restaurants take a deposit, paid with a foreign-issued card on CatchTable Global.
- Release days
- Some open a month at a time; 4 of the 14 shown get new dates daily near 12 AM (observed).
What CatchTable and CatchTable Global are
CatchTable is a Korean app and website for booking restaurant tables and joining waitlists. Restaurants post their own calendar, prices and rules, and the app sells the seats.
CatchTable Global at catchtable.net is the English version. The Korea Tourism Organization says it supports English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The Korean app is a separate app for Korean users.
Restaurants are not all on both. Some Seoul rooms take bookings on CatchTable Global; others show only a waitlist or a phone number. Haobin's page says 'Reserve by phone', and Tianmimi Hongdae's says only an on-site waitlist is available (checked November 12, 2026).
What a visitor needs
- An account: you can sign up with Google or Apple, without a Korean phone number, according to the Korea Tourism Organization. That page was last updated in September 2024.
- A foreign-issued card for deposits: the same page says deposits on CatchTable Global can only be paid with foreign-issued cards.
- A waitlist needs no deposit, remote or on site, per the same page. Many reservation-only restaurants do.
We could not verify which card brands are accepted, so we do not list them. The checkout page tells you.
Deposits, refunds and resale
A deposit is charged when you book and refunded or lost under the restaurant's own rule. The rules differ, so read each page. As posted on November 12, 2026: MOSU Seoul refunds in full 3 days ahead and nothing later; Mingles refunds in full 4 days ahead; Soigné's year-end menu takes the full price up front, refunded in full 7 days ahead.
Resale is not allowed at the restaurants we read. Mingles and Vesuvio Seoul both say paid transfers get a reservation cancelled, and Vesuvio says the deposit is lost and the account blacklisted. Pay only inside CatchTable.
How releases work on CatchTable
CatchTable does not publish one release time for all restaurants. Each restaurant chooses, and many open a month at a time at a set hour on a set day.
- Mingles: reservations for December opened on October 1 and for January on November 1, both at 2 PM Seoul time, per its notices.
- Yunjudang Haebangchon: next month's reservations open at 7 PM on the 15th of every month, Seoul time, per its CatchTable page.
- Choidot: January 2027 opened on November 11 at 1 PM; Christmas opens on its own date.
- Special menus open on their own days. Soigné's year-end menu opens Monday, November 16 at 3 PM.
Between releases, openings appear at any hour. These are openings outside any regular release; we cannot see why a table appeared. That is what Table Alert measures below.
The Seoul restaurants we watch on CatchTable
14 of the 14 Seoul restaurants we watch have 90 clean days; the table shows those. 'New dates appear' is a time we observed on the calendar, not a published rule. The restaurant's guide, where there is one, states the published rule.
Every restaurant we monitor in full in Seoul that takes bookings on this platform, with its last 90 days. Restaurants we monitor in full (every party size, every date, every day).
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Mingles
- Bookable time
- 5.7 days
- Days with a table
- 78
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 20 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 3 minutes
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MOSU Seoul
- Bookable time
- 46.2 days
- Days with a table
- 90
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 28 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 5 minutes
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Eatanic Garden
- Bookable time
- 2.3 days
- Days with a table
- 69
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 33 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 minutes
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San
- Bookable time
- 45.8 days
- Days with a table
- 87
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 26 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 50 minutes
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Onjium Restaurant
- Bookable time
- 6.6 days
- Days with a table
- 65
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 20 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 4 minutes
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SOUL
- Bookable time
- 73.3 days
- Days with a table
- 77
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 4 hours
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JUNGDAE
- Bookable time
- 6.0 h
- Days with a table
- 9
- How far ahead
- 2 days
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7th Door
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Days with a table
- 73
- New dates appear
- 12:00 AM
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 15 hours
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GiwaKang
- Bookable time
- 15.1 days
- Days with a table
- 8
- New dates appear
- 12:00 AM
- How far ahead
- 30 days
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Kwonsooksoo
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Days with a table
- 89
- New dates appear
- 12:00 AM
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 11 hours
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Restaurant EVETT
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Days with a table
- 86
- New dates appear
- 12:05 AM
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 16 hours
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Y'east
- Bookable time
- 65.8 days
- Days with a table
- 69
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 5 hours
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JUNGSIK
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Days with a table
- 90
- New dates appear
- 12:00 AM
- How far ahead
- 66 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 2.2 hours
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ZEST
- Bookable time
- 79.0 days
- Days with a table
- 90
- New dates appear
- at no fixed time
- How far ahead
- 29 days
- Typical table lasts
- about 2.7 hours
'At no fixed time' means we saw no stable pattern: only 4 of the 14 shown had one we could learn. Mingles reads that way: its openings fall outside any regular release, while its own notices state a monthly release at 2 PM. We cannot see why a table appeared. Where the table is blank, we have too few days to say.
Proprietary data: Table Alert checks each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock; these figures cover the last 90 days, vouched restaurants only, and are refreshed every night.
Using CatchTable well
- Create your CatchTable Global account before release day, not on it.
- Add a card that works for foreign payments.
- Know the restaurant's release hour and be on its page a few minutes early, on the Seoul clock.
- If everything shows Full, watch for openings: a Table Alert alert tells you the moment one appears, and you book it yourself.
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CatchTable in Seoul: how it works for visitors: questions people ask
It is CatchTable's English version at catchtable.net, built for visitors. The Korea Tourism Organization says it supports English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, and lets you reserve tables or join waitlists.
On CatchTable Global, no. The Korea Tourism Organization says you can sign up with a Google or Apple account without a Korean phone number. Its page was last updated in September 2024, so check the sign-up screen.
Yes. The same page says deposits on CatchTable Global can only be paid with foreign-issued credit cards. We do not know which card brands every restaurant accepts, so check at checkout.
Each restaurant decides. Mingles opens a month at 2 PM Seoul time on the 1st, Yunjudang at 7 PM on the 15th, Choidot on its own monthly date. At others, tables appear at no fixed hour. See the table for what we observed.
Often because the month sold out at release. Tables then reappear, most likely cancellations, often for 12 PM and 6 PM seatings, and are gone within minutes at the fastest restaurants. Alerts are how to catch one.
No. Some restaurants take phone bookings and some walk-ins, and Naver has its own reservations. Naver Map began accepting passport verification for foreign visitors in June 2026, according to The Korea Times. But the restaurants in the table above all sell their seats on CatchTable.
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Sources and how this page is made
Written by Jacob, founder of Table Alert. Facts checked against the sources below on November 12, 2026 and re-checked every night, last on . The monitoring numbers are Table Alert's own, refreshed every night. Out of date? Tell us.
- Korea Tourism Organization: CatchTable Global (page last updated September 2024)
- The Korea Times: Naver introduces passport verification for foreign travelers (June 2026)
- CatchTable Global (catchtable.net)
- CatchTable Global: Mingles, reservation notices
- CatchTable Global: Soigné, year-end reservation notice
- CatchTable Global: Yunjudang Haebangchon
- CatchTable Global: Choidot, reservation notices
- CatchTable Global: Mingles, details and policies
- CatchTable Global: Vesuvio Seoul
- CatchTable Global: Haobin
- CatchTable Global: Tianmimi Hongdae
- CatchTable Global: MOSU Seoul, details and policies
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