Los Angeles-born Jinsol Gukbap opens Busan-style pork soup spot in Plano

Jinsol Gukbap has opened at 111 W. Spring Creek Pkwy., Suite 102, near U.S. 75 in Plano, giving the corridor another Korean dining option with a sharply defined regional identity. The Los Angeles-born concept specializes in Busan-style pork soups, a sharper sell than a broad pan-Asian menu and one that fits Plano’s appetite for restaurants with a clear origin story.

The signature dish is built around pork-rich broth, and Eater LA has described the restaurant’s broth as simmered for 24 hours. Busan’s best-known version of the dish, dwaeji gukbap, is a porky, seollungtang-like soup served hot, typically with banchan. Jinsol Gukbap’s menu in Plano extends beyond soup to grilled meats and classic side dishes, signaling a sit-down model centered on comfort food and shared plates rather than quick-service takeout.

The Plano restaurant opened in June 2026 and became the chain’s second location in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, following Carrollton. It is also the first Jinsol Gukbap owned by Bo Young Chang, who previously operated Naju Myeonok in the same space before changing concepts. That kind of reuse is common in North Texas, where a promising restaurant footprint can be repurposed quickly when operators see a better match for the local customer base.

Plano’s numbers help explain why a concept like this can land here. The city had 285,494 residents in the 2020 Census and an estimated 293,028 in July 2025, while Collin County reached 1,297,179 in that same estimate. Asian residents made up 23.7% of Plano’s population and 21.4% of Collin County’s, with Plano also reporting a 29.3% foreign-born share, 38.0% of residents age 5 and older speaking a language other than English at home, and a median household income of $115,901 in the 2024 ACS 1-year estimate.

Those figures help define the first likely audience for Jinsol Gukbap: Plano and Collin County diners already comfortable with Korean food, immigrants looking for a taste tied to a specific city and tradition, and suburban customers who treat Spring Creek Parkway and the U.S. 75 corridor as a destination strip. In that market, a Busan-style pork soup house is not just another restaurant opening, but another sign that Plano keeps drawing immigrant-founded and coast-to-coast concepts that can anchor themselves with a clear culinary identity.