Gilpost · Busanjin-gu, Bujeon-dong
Bonjip Agu Iyagi Busan Seomyeon Bonjeom
본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 A monkfish specialist behind the Seomyeon department store in Busan, sold mostly as a per-head course, where nearly every seat is a private room off a corridor.
Korean · Busanjin-gu, Bujeon-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Bonjip Agu Iyagi is a monkfish specialist in the lanes behind the Lotte department store in Seomyeon, Busan. It does not sell one dish but five ways with the same fish — steamed, grilled, poached, fried and in a clear soup — mostly as a per-head course from ₩25,000 to ₩48,000, or as a lunch set between eleven and three for ₩16,000–₩19,000. The dining room proper is small; most seats are in rooms facing each other down a corridor, which is what the place is used for. Eleven in the morning to midnight, last orders at eleven. It opened in August 2026 — everything we read was written within a month of that, and it reads like a restaurant still finding its feet.
The basics
| Address | 부산광역시 부산진구 부전로66번길 20, 1층 (부전동) 20 Bujeon-ro 66beon-gil, Busanjin-gu, Busan |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1382-1488 |
| Typical spend | ₩50,000 – ₩75,000 |
| Floor area | 165 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 12 posts: 12 wrote Daily 11:00–24:00.
| Open | Daily | 11:00–24:00 12 of 12 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Last order | 23:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09 |
Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.
These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. 
Place — check hours
What sets it apart
- You choose the heat, and the people who chose it do not agree. One puts the standard level at about that of a hot instant noodle and found it fine; three describe the sauce as savoury rather than punishing. But one table of three ordered one step up from mild and all three found it too hot to eat — the writer wondering aloud whether they were simply feeble. The same post says there was more sauce than there was anything else, and she ended up adding potato and a pot of rice to dilute it. Another writer, who does not take heat well, planned from the start to eat it with rice. Nobody records how many levels there are, or how mild the mild one is — worth asking when you order.
- Two posts say there is not much monkfish in the monkfish — and both are posts that paid. One, who chose the seafood topping on the grilled dish, says there was more shellfish than fish on it, that what she had come for barely registered, and that it tasted dry. The other, who had the steamed seafood version boned, found the fish in pieces too small to locate or chew, and short on bean sprout besides. Four posts say the opposite — a course that filled them, plump pieces of fish. The two accounts are not really in conflict: the four are describing the table, and the two are describing how much of the plate is actually monkfish. On the rice pot everyone agrees there is plenty.
- Two posts record the rice pot arriving late. One writer ticked it when she booked, asked for it as she sat down, asked again when ordering, again when the first dishes came and again when the main arrived — and it reached the table on the fifth ask, with the meal nearly over. She had meant to eat it alongside, not being able to take the heat. At another table it came late and was taken off the bill. The first writer also records a server announcing a dish, walking out still holding it and returning sheepishly; a second set of side plates brought to a table that already had them; and the main arriving before the side dishes were down. Her conclusion is that the room was still learning its own choreography, and she notes the staff were flustered rather than careless. Against this, one writer says the food came out faster than she expected, and another that the egg custard and salad, at least, were immediate. Everything we read was written within a month of opening, so we cannot say whether this still holds.
- What this place is really selling is the rooms. Nine posts mention them, and the one writer who describes the layout from having seen it says the open dining area is small and the private rooms face each other down a corridor. Which means that if you are shown straight into one you never see the front of the house: one writer only discovered at the till that there is ice cream and a sweet rice drink laid out opposite it, and wishes someone had mentioned it when she ordered. She also notes that the till area is tight, with people paying, people collecting dessert and people coming and going all in the same spot. One post says groups of up to twenty-four are taken; another thought the six-person room was the biggest there.
What 13 bloggers said
We read all 13 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (7) and “Roomy” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Spicy | yes 3 · no 4 |
|---|---|
| Large portions | yes 4 · no 2 |
| Friendly staff | yes 3 · no 2 |
| Expensive | yes 2 · no 2 |
Things you can check on site
| Private room | 9 of 13 posts |
|---|---|
| Self-order screen | 2 of 13 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 13 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 13 posts |
| Step-free access | 1 of 13 posts |
| Coupon | 1 of 13 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is agujjim (아구찜) — 6 of 13 posts.
The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place
What to order
Sides, and what comes with it
Sweet things
Parking
2 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 2 of 13 posts |
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The restaurant has no car park of its own. Only two posts discuss parking — both of them posts that paid — and they say the same thing: an hour is validated at a tower car park next door. One insists you must take the ticket with you and puts the walk at one or two minutes; the other says it is immediately beside the restaurant, and writes a small aside about having confused its name. What happens after the hour, and where to go if it is full, nobody says. The other eleven posts do not mention parking at all.
Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 2 of 13 posts |
|---|---|
| Group visit | 2 of 13 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 1 (of 13 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Step-free access | 1 of 13 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 13 posts |
It is on the ground floor — though only one writer says so. Her words: it looks like the ground floor, and the way in slopes gently with no step. The licence gives the address as the ground floor too. No post mentions an upper floor or a basement, and none describes climbing anything. The same writer notes that the dining room is visible from the street through a wide front window.
One writer says there is no step at the door, and she saw it herself — the way in, she writes, slopes gently and has no stairs. That is as far as it goes. No post records anyone actually going in with a wheelchair or a pushchair; the width of the door, the width of the corridor the rooms open off, and whether the toilet can be reached are all unwritten. The rooms face each other down that corridor, and the open dining room is described as on the small side. If mobility matters, ring and ask first.
One post mentions the toilet. Working through the room in order, the writer notes simply that the men's and women's are separate. Whether it is inside the restaurant or out in the building, how many cubicles, how far from the rooms — nobody writes any of it. The same fact appears elsewhere, but only in posts we removed from the count, or inside a copied block of shop information.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Toilet inside · Accessible toilet. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.
How to read these posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves2 of 13 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way11 of 13 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 posts we gathered, 17 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.
| 2026-09-17 | 8 posts in one day |
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| 2026-09-16 | 2 posts in one day |
| 2026-08-30 | 2 posts in one day |
We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 9 |
What we do not know
- Seventeen of the thirty confirmed posts have been taken out of the count, leaving thirteen. Here is why. Twenty-eight of the thirty were posted inside a single month, between 25 August and 27 September 2026, eight of them on 17 September alone. And twenty-seven of them end with the same block of address, phone number and opening hours, character for character — a supplied brief. Only three carry no such block, and those three are the only posts that record paying, and the only ones that complain: two state that they paid their own way, one is a work dinner. What the seventeen we dropped have in common is simple: not one of them says what was ordered. They copy out the menu and its prices and then repeat that the room is large and clean, that there are private rooms, that the staff are friendly and the course is good value. Ten of the thirteen we kept carry the same block — we kept them because they name a dish they ate. Every number on this page is counted out of thirteen, not thirty.
- Not one of the thirteen posts we counted says how to get here by train or bus. The landmarks they use overlap: behind the Lotte department store in Seomyeon (fourteen posts put it there), the drinking lane by the store's back entrance, next to a well-known barley-rice restaurant. One writer notes that the signs outside are large enough to spot from a distance. Two posts do give a distance from a subway exit — but both are posts we removed from the count, because neither records eating anything. Which exit, and how far to walk, nobody who actually ate here writes down.
- Nobody reports queueing. One writer walked in without a booking — she had gone somewhere else that turned out to be shut — and was given a room. The one who had booked records that checking her name in took a while, which is opening-week confusion rather than a queue. A party of six writes that the room they were in seemed to be the largest, holding six; another post says groups of up to twenty-four are taken, so the two do not agree. What time you can get in, and whether booking is necessary, nobody says.
- The name says "head branch" and it appears not to be one. A writer there for a work dinner notes that the chain's original is somewhere else and that this Seomyeon site is the new one. The registered trading name does include the words. Where the original is, and how many branches there are, no post says and we have not established. Worth searching the full name rather than the short one.
- No post declares a sponsorship and two declare that they paid; the other eleven say nothing. Here, though, saying nothing means very little — twenty-seven of the thirty carried the same supplied block of shop details and went up inside one month, and seventeen of those recorded no eating at all and were dropped. Among the thirteen we kept, the only posts that say anything critical are the two that declare payment and the one work dinner. The other ten are uniformly warm. So the praise on this page may be ten people saying the same supplied thing rather than thirteen people agreeing. One more: a single post, copying the shop's information, records that corkage is free with the lunch set and that the restaurant does not sell alcohol itself. That is how it reads — but not one writer records ordering a drink, so we could not confirm it. If you mean to drink here, ring and ask.
Sources (13)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 서면 신상 맛집 본집아구이야기!! 아구찜 러버의 내돈내산 솔직후기 2026-09-27 · 부산_북구_덕천동_일본어_私たちはできる！ · via Daum
- 부산 부산진구] 서면 아구코스요리&단품요리 '본집아구이야기 부산서면본점' 솔직후기 2026-09-27 · 잼나의 희망별자리 · via Daum
- 서면 본집아구이야기 후기 2026-09-20 · 내 일상생활의 모든 것 · via Daum
- 부산서면회식 아구찜 아구수육 솥밥 후기 본집아구이야기 부산서면.... 2026-09-16 · yjoooo_ 블로그
- 부산서면회식 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점을 소개해드릴게요 2026-09-16 · 비포Before
- 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 부산서면맛집 2026-09-16 · 후룽호롱 블로그
- 남녀노소 아구요리 즐길 수 있는 부산서면맛집 본집아구이야기 부.... 2026-09-13 · olo240216님의 블로그
- 부산서면회식 장소로 추천할 만한 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 2026-09-09 · 아름다운 세상 행복한 나날이 되세요!!
- 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 부산서면회식 매콤한 풍미와 탱글한 .... 2026-09-04 · 노란 꽃잎 따라 찾아온 봄날 이야기
- 부산서면맛집 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 친구랑 점심특선 제대.... 2026-08-30 · 해리의 블로그
- 아구찜 러버 모여라! 부산서면맛집 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 2026-08-29 · wdf400428님의 블로그 · via Daum
- 아구불고기 한상 메뉴 정리 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 부산서면맛집 2026-08-28 · 러너의 방방곡곡 정보방 · via Daum
- 본집아구이야기 부산서면본점 부산서면회식 여러가지메뉴를 한번.... 2026-08-25 · 보돌이의 블로그
Of 257 candidate posts we opened 60 and kept 13 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.