Ikuno Korea Town (Japanese: 生野コリアタウン, Korean: 이쿠노 코리아타운) is a Koreatown in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Japan.

[3] Nearby is the Osaka Korea Town Museum, which discusses the history of the area and showcases Korean culture.

[1] The area has been compared to the Ōkubo Koreatown in Tokyo, which Lee Young-hee of the JoongAng Ilbo describes as having "big shopping malls with famous Korean franchise stores".

[7] By contrast, Ikuno "bears the traditional Korean marketplace feel", with homemade food, narrow streets, and merchandise prominently displayed for passersby.

[9] They made numerous attempts to merge for several decades, but talks stalled due to "the different characteristics of the shops and stubbornness of the vendors", according to Hong Sung-ik, who was the chair of the market by 2022.

[9] After the growth of the Korean Wave and the joint Korea–Japan hosting of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the area experienced a boom in popularity and became a major tourist destination.

[8][4] The museum discusses the history of the area, showcases Korean popular culture, and houses around 2,000 books on both Korea and Japan.

[11] One point of contention is the fact that Ko Yong-hui, the mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was born in the area in 1952.

[6] In 2013, a video[12] of a junior high school girl in the area shouting the need for an ethnic cleansing of the Korean residents there went viral.

[16][17] The area was the setting for the 2004 Japanese novel and film Blood and Bones, which covers the semi-autobiographical story of an ethnic Korean living there.