Hangbok – Happy Karaoke

The quality of the karaōke system is great. I love that the remote is all in English for non-​Korean folks and you can switch between countries/​languages, artists/​titles, etc. or us the song books to find songs. They had a good number of recent songs that we wanted to sing and thankfully the videos weren’t super random. The scores they give you are definitely inaccurate and I don’t think we saw any tambourines, but I’m just glad the place didn’t smell like smoke (and probably because the guy sprays the place with Lysol lol). My group of 8 sang for 2 hours and it cost $ 64 for the room or $ 8/​person. The parking lot was hella dark and could definitely use more lighting so patrons feel safer.

I enjoy the private room karaōke style and they are so hospitable. If you order drinks they bring you complementary fruit trays! And there’s always rooms available, the place is huge! Great large song library. No byob, and the drinks are expensive for the well liquor they are using. I recommend drinking beforehand or flasking it very carefully.

I’ve read some pretty mixed reviews about this joint, but I can vouch for my first experience as a pleasant experience.
Kitchen stays open late, very affordable price for a group, and overall clean, kempt atmosphere. I would recommend it.

Came here on a Saturday with my best friend and my fiancé, we were helped as soon as we walked in the door by really friendly staff, they quickly and swiftly set us up with a really cool and private room, the song selection is really good, they are missing some newer songs but I didn’t really mind that. The only downside I could find to this whole place is that the menu is kind of skimpy and if you wanted food or drinks you had to walk to the front to order, but if you don’t mind making the short trip it’s fine, everyone sang their hearts out (for only $ 20 an hour!) And the manager even added 15 extra minutes free of charge, I would definitely return again and recommend this place. *presses applause button*

Happy Karaōke (not to be confused with Happy Family Karaōke) is located in what is probably the sketchiest lot of land on Buford Highway.
We came in not knowing exactly where to park. We couldn’t park at the gas station so we ended up parking in a deserted lot.
Once we entered, two Korean men stood at the counter. One noticed one two larger Longchamp purses and asked to check our bags. I saw the sign on the wall that said «no handbags» which noted that larger handbags would be up to a mandatory search, at that moment. They took out my Nalgene water bottle full of water and told me they would be holding it at the counter until I left. I refused because I had no idea what they would be doing with a full bottle of water so I went ahead and put it back in the car. I was not impressed with this. It’s one thing if they thought I brought in my own liquor or food, but I just wanted to be able to drink my own water and not pay a premium for bottled water.
We ended up staying and singing for two hours. The Korean scoring system had us at failing grades the entire time. And we had music majors/​Masters in the room! There weren’t too many new songs, but we made do, as we usually can with any selection of songs.
It was $ 30 an hour on a weeknight, with no free additional time, which I thought was a little absurd, but maybe prices have gone up everywhere. Overall, not impressed. There are definitely better Asian karaōke joints elsewhere.

The overall experience was very nice… they have private individual karaōke rooms. I prefer to have the wide open, stage type karaōke scene where you’re out amongst everyone but this was nice nonetheless. The tab was $ 50 for 2 hours, so not too bad! I wouldn’t mind coming back from time to time, and I’d recommend this spot to small groups that just wanna have fun times with close friends.

Asian style private room for karaōke!
Awesome for a group of friends to have fun .
This place has a good collection of English songs. Though not as updated as I would like them to be.
Location is very convenient! And they take reservations. Owner is very friendly and flexible!
They also serve food and soju — soju is too sweet and food is alright.

RUDE! Is the best way to describe this place! We were having a fun party of 8 people for a few hours in our room, then we met up with some of the people in the next room and they came into our room to just sing with us for a bit before returning to their room and the rude manager guy comes in and kicks them out, when we asked what was the big deal since they were still paying for their room & we were paying for ours, he just said «not allowed» & kicked us out!
I don’t think we will be returning. We were not hurting anyone but just singing.
The beers & drinks are all very over priced and the food is not great and I do believe he even over charged us for the room.

This karaōke bar is pretty ghetto. It’s located behind the Chevron on Buford highway, and has a super sketchy parking lot (not very well lit either). When you first walk in, they do search bags (I have no idea what they’re looking for). There is a very small bar area up front with a couch (waiting area presumably), and then a bunch of private rooms. The rooms themselves were fine — clean and with comfy couches and the standard tables. The song selection was meh and the books were not very well organized to find songs. It was much easier to try to locate songs by title name, artist name, or lyrics via the remote for the machine, but a bit time consuming to do so that way. A good thing was variety of songs in other languages (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese) but the remote made it a bit difficult to search for songs in other languages.
The menu selection was decent — the food wasn’t bad. There is kimchee rice, and seafood pancakes, and fried chicken. Also of course, beer and yogurt sochu. If you buy enough alcohol they will start bringing out complimentary fruit platters. (We discovered this by accident but never did figure out how much you had to spend for that to happen).
This place is pretty cheap so that’s a plus, but come and leave in groups as the parking lot is SUPER sketchy.

Okay here is my update. I recently went here again after so many years and i came with my friends. Okay, pretty much all of the other reviews are very correct. so here is my POV. It is located on a pretty sketchy corner. Parking is around back next to the Citgo Gas station. Upon entering, you have to pay first before you sing anything. This is very different that the other korean karaōke places, who charge you at the end of your time. It’s $ 20 an hour for groups 5 – 8 or less. They have 2 music books provided for you. 1 is all english songs and the 2^nd is a 6 language book. The only reason why i now give this place 4 stars instead of 5 is because of how you have to pay for everything up front (time, food, drinks). Now I will say that their food is pretty good. I had rice over bulgogi and my friends both had the shrimp fried rice. You get alot for your money, so please eat up =) Other than that, it’s still a pretty cool place.

I typically reserve a room here every year for a birthday party. One of the big reasons is their big selection of metal songs which is plus for my group. The staff has always been very nice. The only reason I’m giving 4 stars rather then 5 is the size of rooms. With 20 people it gets cramped but they bring in extra chairs every time. Also the huge table makes it difficult to walk to or from your seat. Other than that it’s been a great experience every time.

So, mixed review here. As other reviewers have mentioned, the parking lot is extremely sketchy but inside it’s fine. We didn’t have any technical issues while there and everything went pretty smoothly.
Nice that they have a menu of food, soju, beer and drinks. Food and soju was pretty good. This review would be five stars except at the end they chose to charge us an additional $ 100 for the room, despite a listed special of $ 95 for four soju, food, and fruit. Honestly, we were fine paying around $ 200 for the (many) soju, beers, and food but were expecting that after spending so much they would include the room as was listed on the menu.
However, instead of honoring their listed promotion they chose to charge us an additional $ 100. We went from extremely happy and loyal customers to never coming back in 30 seconds.
For somewhere with so much potential, it’s really disappointing on our end!

No, just plain no.
The people here are so rude! Our friends from Charlotte were visiting; it was around 12 and we decided we should go out to Buford Hwy since it was the closest rather than going deep into Gwinnett. My girlfriend had already gotten there ahead of us with her boyfriend to reserve the table. Everything has to be prepaid (what? why?)
Man, these people are rude. I hate them. It’s not even rude because we weren’t Korean but rude because they were rude. We wanted to buy more bottles of Crown but they wouldn’t allow us. One bottle for 10 – 12 people? Nah, son. That won’t do. This is karaōke. We need alcohol for karaōke.
Despite my friends speaking in the sweetest Korean, they were still reluctant and insisted that we needed to hurry up with our hour and leave.
You lost some good business, sir!

First time doing Karaōke. The owners were pretty nice. The rooms were small but im not sure what I was expecting. The rooms are private but you can also hear the people next to you which I didn’t really mind. This is a great place to have some fun with a few friends. My friends ordered the kimchi, which looked a little plain. The service was pretty good. Also the music selection isn’t that bad but I wish there were a little more. My group was in room number 7 which came with two microphones with little covers, two binders for music selection (the music was the same just one was arranged by artist and one by song), the giant remote and their menu. Would come back again!

The owner can be a dick sometimes. He tried to charge us for food and alcohol we already paid for. Good thing I caught him and we ended up getting 4 dollars back for each of the 8 people.
One time the owner tried to charge us from 8 – 12 when we arrived at 9. We had to go through security camera footage to confirm when we actually arrived.
The environment is fun and the songs are sort of up-​to-​date, but the tension between the owner and the customers can really bring down the fun of the night.

Sketch parking lot… And it’s also very tiny.
But 14 of us went. And it was lots of fun. They even had great modern songs!!! Sang for like 4 hours haha. Time flew by. We ordered a bunch of stuff and I feel like they gave us an hour free? It was super cheap when we paid.
They also gave us fruit plates on the house!

Here’s what this place is for… You and the posse just ate along Buford Highway, and want to do something fun, local, and fairly tame. The choices are then bowling or Karaōke.
*This place is fairly close to the interstate. Check…
*It is located on a fairly sketchy looking corner, but at least there’s plenty of parking. Good enough…
*The owner is a cranky, older Korean dude. He’s cranky, because he’s had to deal with enough of you drunken fools, some who may have walked out without paying. Just be patient with him. If you have a Korean friend, then it’ll be even better…
*If you try breaking out the little Korean you know, just don’t use the cuss words…
There are nicer Karaōke spots around, but this one is convenient, fairly cheap, and will do in a pinch. Can be booked heavy on weekends, so maybe its a good Thursday night option.

We came in on a late Friday night/​early Saturday morning; the occasion was to bid adieu to a friend moving abroad — we were doing so karaōke style per her wishes.
I don’t know what I was doing with my life up until this point that I’d never been to a private-​room-​karaōke bar, but I have been missing out! It’s far superior to any «regular» karaōke bar I’ve ever been to. We were placed in Room #1, which was more than enough room for our group of ten. There were three — slightly worn in — medium sized couches surrounding a large table, set in front of the karaōke machine/​flat screen, on the table were two microphones, one remote (for the karaōke system), three song booklets, and a food/​drink menu.
We came in pretty late so we didn’t get any food or drink, but the menu items sounded delicious. Side note: they’re fairly strict on the no outside food/​drink policy, there’s even a ‘no handbags’ sign posted at the door though they didn’t say anything about a few of us girls in with smaller purses.
The karaōke system is in Korean, but it’s very easy to use — none of us spoke Korean and we had absolutely no problems with it. They have a very large English catalog of songs and it’s pretty up to date with the current ‘Top 100′; in addition, there are also large K-​Pop and J-​Pop catalogs. When the song starts to play, multi-​color strobe lights come on — it’s a nice touch.
Now I’ve read in some of the previous reviews that they charged $ 20 per room — regardless of party size, however we were charged by person. Our total came to $ 50 for one hour — $ 5 per person. Change in policy I suppose. Still it was a pretty good deal, I forgot to ask if it was different on weekends.
Overall, it’s a great place to hang out with friends, and a much better alternative to the traditional karaōke bar — especially if you’ve got stage fright, like me.

I’ve been here a couple of times for karaōke, and it’s pretty much the same as most other karaōke places except that the seats are getting old, uneven and hole-​y. Oh, and it’s always better if you have a Korean friend who’s fluent in Korean.
There’s truly no other better way to karaōke than singing a private room, drinking beer and soju. However, it’s a real damper when the owners shut down your room at 3:30am while they allow other rooms to continue singing until the actual closing time of 4am. Really? Maybe we weren’t Korean enough for them.
There are other better places to go for karaōke, but Happy is one of the lower-​priced ones. There are much nicer and more comfortable ones to go to in Duluth, but it’s more out of the way compared to Doraville which is a little more central for me and my friends.
As much as it sucks here, we’ll probably still keep coming anyway. After all, it’s karaōke.

It was a dear friends birthday, and I haven’t seen her since her last one so when I heard she was doing karaōke for her bday, I had to check it out.
I drive by this place all the time (as it is on the way from my house– Sweet Hut), and always wondered how it would fare to the places I have been to (which are near Gwinnett Mall).
The parking is sketch as hell– you go around back to an unpaved lot that is shared with no lights and a dumpster (at least I found a great place to dump bodies), but I didn’t get mugged on my way in or out– but just a thought for those who are conscious about their safety.
The place is an older one, and with that, I am not sure how the pricing worked out (I didn’t pay), but I would assume on the cheaper side.
I told the guy at the door who I was looking for and he said they were in room 1 (great, can’t wait what I was about to walk into!). Low and behold, there were my friends.
Room 1 has enough seating for 10 people, and it came with 2 tvs. The remote was more so in english than Korean– so I was able to utilize the «applause» button more frequently.
The songs were older, so I couldn’t showcase my Carly Rae Jespen skills either– bummer. On the plus side, the scoring system at the end of each song seemed to work– which I have not seen before– so that was cool!
It looks like they have a full bar here, so I would suggest checking it out!
If you want more old school karaōke, this is the place to go– don’t expect a club like atmosphere– more like a pimped out cafeteria.
All in all, I was in the presence of friends so it made it worth it!