My friends keep asking me where they should go to eat good Korean food and my reply to them is always the same: “At your Korean friend’s house.” I say this with complete confidence having eaten at Korean restaurants around NYC (which doesn’t compare to eating out in Korea!) and having grown up on my Korean mom’s home cooking.
So the next best thing for those of you who don’t have Korean friends to invite you to their house and are fed up with overpriced Korean BBQ (which really doesn’t begin to enter into the richness and complexity of Korean food) is to just make it yourself.
The Holy Three of Korean cooking
And don’t worry, I’ll walk you through it.
DIY Korean 
I’m a food addict. Have a huge group of international friends; “The Posse”, who all love food and most of them are excellent cooks. The rest provide the drinks 😉 I never ate Korean food, never tried the restaurants and unfortunately don’t have any Korean friends. What am I going to do? There is a Japanese/Korean store not too far away though..
It might be worth it to go into a Korean restaurant on the basis of research. That way you can see what they have to offer and see what you might want to recreate at home.