Okuku Bakery (오쿠쿠 베이커리) is a salt bread bakery inside Starfield Hanam, the big shopping mall in Hanam, Gyeonggi-do. My son and I stopped there on Sunday, March 8, 2026, the same afternoon we went to Starfield to buy a Nintendo game and had lunch at Pildong Hambak. We bought five breads for 25,700 won. The one I would go back for is the milk cream salt bread (우유크림 소금빵).
- Name: 오쿠쿠 베이커리 (Okuku Bakery), Starfield Hanam
- Address: Starfield Hanam, 750 Misa-daero, Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do (경기도 하남시 미사대로 750) · Google Maps
- Visited: Sunday, March 8, 2026, around 1:20 p.m., with my son
- What we bought: plain salt bread 3,500 won, milk cream salt bread 4,500 won, choco fondue salt bread 4,800 won, egg shrimp sandwich 7,700 won, café bun bagel (to go) 5,200 won. Total 25,700 won
- Paying: at the counter, with a numbered menu exchange ticket
- My rating: 4.3 / 5
- Info checked: September 23, 2026
A stop on a Nintendo run
My son and I had gone to Starfield Hanam to pick up a Nintendo game, and we had lunch at Pildong Hambak there. Afterwards we stopped at Okuku Bakery, with its yellow sign and a counter piled with bread, to buy something to take home. We paid at 1:22 p.m., according to the receipt.
The bakery is an open counter rather than a closed shop. The front of the counter is decorated with cartoon ducks, the brand’s mascot family, and the bread is laid out on wooden trays across the top with small price cards. It is easy to see everything from the aisle before you decide to stop.
Salt bread is the focus
Salt bread (소금빵, sogeumppang) is a small, buttery roll with coarse salt on top. At Okuku it is the main thing on the counter, in several versions: plain, milk cream, chocolate and others. The price cards show the price in thousands of won, so “4.5” means 4,500 won.
We chose three salt breads and two other items:
| Bread | Korean | Price (won) |
|---|---|---|
| Plain salt bread | 플레인 소금빵 | 3,500 |
| Milk cream salt bread | 우유 소금빵 (우유크림 소금빵 on the price card) | 4,500 |
| Choco fondue salt bread | 초코퐁당 소금빵 | 4,800 |
| Egg shrimp sandwich | 에그쉬림프 (샌드위치) | 7,700 |
| Café bun bagel (to go) | 카페번 베이글 | 5,200 |
| Total | 25,700 |
The milk cream salt bread was the best of the five for me: sweet, with a soft, moist inside. If you only buy one thing here, make it that one. The plain salt bread is the version to compare it with, and the choco fondue salt bread is the one covered in chocolate on our tray. The egg shrimp sandwich was the most expensive item we bought and the only savory one, and the café bun bagel was packed separately to take home.
These are the other price cards we photographed on the counter, in March 2026:
| Bread | Korean | Price (won) |
|---|---|---|
| Pain au chocolat | 뺑오쇼콜라 | 5,500 |
| Pain suisse | 뺑 스위스 | 5,800 |
| Laugen chive cream cheese salt bread | 라우겐쪽파 크림치즈소금빵 | 5,800 |
| Olive three-cheese ciabatta | 올리브3치즈 치아바타 | 6,200 |
| Ham and cheese sandwich | 햄치즈 샌드위치 | 7,400 |
How paying works
You put your bread on a tray and pay at the counter. The receipt is a Starfield receipt, and with it you get a separate menu exchange ticket (메뉴교환권) with an order number and the list of items. The ticket says to hand it in at the corner, and that it is only valid on the day. Keep it until your bread is packed.
The bag and the cards inside
The bread went into a paper bag printed with the duck characters and the line “See you at the Okuku Bakery, we will always wait for you”. Inside the bag there were three printed cards: a hidden-picture puzzle for kids (오쿠쿠 숨은그림찾기), a bread guide, and a card with the brand story. For a bakery stop with a child, the puzzle card is a nice extra.
Storing and reheating the bread
The bread guide card is the most useful thing in the bag if you are not eating everything on the spot. This is what it says:
- The card says to keep bread out of direct sunlight in a cool, dry place and advises against the fridge, because bread dries out and gets hard there. That is about texture. The card lists this under products with cream, egg or dairy, but for anything with a perishable filling, such as the egg shrimp sandwich or cream-filled breads, I would follow food safety advice instead and refrigerate what you are not eating soon (see the FDA guide to storing food safely).
- Bread tastes best on the day you buy it. For plain breads without a filling, the card says to freeze what you will not finish by the next day in a zip bag, for up to 1 month. For cream items it gives up to 2 weeks in the freezer.
- Breads without cream: warm them in a preheated air fryer or oven at 170°C for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Breads with cream or fruit: eat them as they are, without heating, and the card recommends eating them on the day you buy them.
- Frozen plain bread: thaw at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes, then warm it as above. The card says to avoid the microwave, because the bread goes soggy and then tough. For frozen cream-filled items, I would thaw them in the fridge rather than on the counter, in line with the food safety guide above.
Worth it for one bread
Yes, for the milk cream salt bread. Okuku is not somewhere I would drive to on its own, but if you are already at Starfield Hanam it is an easy stop, and the salt breads are priced between 3,500 and 4,800 won. That one bread is most of my 4.3 out of 5.
For all our Hanam reviews grouped by area, see our Hanam restaurant guide.
More from our Starfield Hanam days:
- Pildong Hambak, the hamburg steak lunch we had the same day
- Chaesundang Hanam Misa, shabu-shabu and spring rolls in Misa