FML Magazine: Digital Cover Story
May 2026
Starring
@austinkangg
There are restaurants you stumble into, and then there are restaurants that require intention. Mukjung belongs to the latter; a place that feels less like a reservation and more like a decision. You don’t just arrive here; you choose it.
The road to Mukjung is part of its thesis. There is, as its chef and owner, Austin Kang, puts it simply, “you come to a place that’s not in a fast-paced environment.” No clusters of bars, no retail spillover, no ambient noise of a neighborhood performing for itself. Just distance. And in that distance, a kind of recalibration occurs, where time stretches and conversations deepen, allowing for meals that slow down.
“You truly focus on each other,” as Chef Kang says.
“Korean food is slow food,” he shares, almost as a quiet correction to the speed at which dining culture has begun to move. “I wanted to focus on a place where the area has a story.” It’s a radical idea in an era of turn-and-burn tables and algorithm-chasing menus that exhaust us: that a restaurant could somehow function as a pause button.
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EIC: Gina Kim-Park (
@ginakpark )
Muse: Austin Kang (
@austinkangg )
Production Manager & Written by: Min Lee (
@lee.a.min )
Creative Direction: Reinhardt Kenneth (
@reinhardtkenneth ) & Heo Jangbeom (
@heojangbeom )
Photographers : Heo Jangbeom (
@heojangbeom ) , Choi Cheolhun (
@hoon.by )
Stylist: Lee sonya (
@noeyosonya )
Assistant: Oh Euntaek (
@Oetaek )
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