**lunch buffet** 런치뷔페 (1인) 24 of 26 ordered itGenerated by AI from 24 posts. Not a photograph of this shop. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

Korean

The Square

Name: The Square
Address: 부산광역시 동구 중앙대로214번길 7 (초량동), 동구, 부산광역시, 48733, KR
Telephone: 051-464-3575

더스퀘어 뷔페 Deo Seukweeo Buffet A weekday-lunch Korean buffet on the tenth floor of the Kwangjang Tourist Hotel, right outside Busan Station

Compiled from 26 blog posts read in fullSources →

The Square is a weekday-lunch-only Korean buffet on the tenth floor of the Kwangjang Tourist Hotel, directly outside Busan Station. It reopened as a lunch buffet in June 2025 when the hotel was refitted, and the room works as a buffet by day and a function room on weekday evenings and weekends. Rice and soup, a bibimbap station, a make-your-own noodle bowl, five or six hot dishes, salads and wrapping leaves, then dessert and coffee — all in one price, and the spread changes daily. It was ₩13,000 a head; in September 2026 it became ₩15,000. One to three minutes' walk from the station exits: you go in beside the fish-cake shop on the ground floor and take the lift to ten. One wall is glass, and it looks down over the station and past it. The posts we read run from September 2025 to September 2026.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by gilpost

Location & hours

Address부산광역시 동구 중앙대로214번길 7 (초량동)7 Jungang-daero 214beon-gil, Dong-gu, Busan
Phone051-464-3575
Typical spend₩13,000 – ₩15,000 only 1 of 8 dishes carries a price
From the station25 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Floor areaFloor area 254 m² · Status In business

When it opens

Of 21 posts: 4 wrote Daily 11:00–21:00, 3 wrote Weekdays 11:00–13:00, 3 wrote 11:00–21:00.

When it opens
Weekdays	11:00–13:00
No day given	11:00–21:00
Daily	11:00–21:00	4 of 21 posts
Break	14:30–17:00	7 of 8 posts
Last order	20:30	5 of 6 posts
Closed	Sunday	4 of 5 posts
Closed	공휴일	2 of 5 posts
Closed	Saturday	2 of 5 posts

Rows without a count: 3 of 21 posts.

2 other values

Open	Weekdays	11:00–14:30 3 of 21 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Weekdays	11:00–14:00 3 of 21 posts last seen 2026-08

The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.

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

The price went up, and the posts catch it happening. Seventeen posts between September 2025 and 24 August 2026 give ₩13,000 a head; four from 11 September 2026 give ₩15,000. In between, the post of 24 August announces the rise in advance, from the first of September. Nobody calls it expensive — all twenty-four posts that mention price say the opposite, usually by pointing out that a single dish costs about as much. Two are more measured: one says it is not cheap for a meal, only cheap for a buffet; another admits she wondered whether a real buffet could be run at that price. You pay on the way in, and one writer notes a group can pay separately.
Five posts say the food is not remarkable — a rare flash of candour here, so we set it down separately. One puts it at canteen level and warns that anyone coming for the cooking alone may be disappointed. A self-funded writer says nothing is outstanding and no dish is special, and means it as praise for the value. A third thinks it would pall if eaten often. The specific complaints on record: the noodle broth could be stronger; the yaki-udon noodles are too thin; the sweet-and-sour chicken is not what he expected; the glass noodles are a touch sweet; there is no fried egg for the bibimbap; there is no ice cream. Others write that nothing here is bad and that everything is on offer. It does not read as disagreement so much as this: take away the price and the room, and the cooking is ordinary.
One wall is glass, and fourteen posts talk about it. From ten floors up you look down on the station; one writer sees the sea beyond, another thinks the harbour bridge would be visible on a clearer day. One calls it a sky lounge; one says the view is wide enough to digest a large lunch. But one writer notes the window tables are all two-seaters — a group may not get one. Three mention how much light comes in. It is not an observation deck; it is a room with big windows that you happen to eat lunch in.
Twenty-three posts call the room large. More than twenty give the same figure — ninety seats at most — but that sentence comes from the restaurant's own publicity and we have not counted it; nobody counted the chairs. What people did see for themselves: tables of two and four with some pushed into long rows (four writers); gaps wide enough to park a suitcase beside you without blocking anyone (one); a low divider between the food and the tables (one); a small stage at the far end with a projector and sound (two). Six describe a separate room off the main floor — one calls it small and intimate, another says it takes a party of twenty or thirty by arrangement. One writer actually sat in it.

2 more

Nine posts say the food and the tables are kept up with, even at the lunch crush. The overlap is specific: dishes refilled as they empty (nine), plates cleared at once (six), tables wiped down often (two). One writer jokes that the staff nearly outnumbered the diners and says the room held together even when full. Another notes the absence of the smell that hangs about cheap all-you-can-eat places. Two say the turnover was fast enough that they never waited for a table. One did go back for a popular dish and found it gone, swapped for something else.
Three posts say you can leave a suitcase while you eat. The station is a minute away and people break a journey here. One writer saw tourists and hotel guests with their cases in the room; another found the gaps between tables wide enough to keep hers beside her. Nobody says they actually checked one in — all three report it as something they were told. Two mention disposable aprons by the door and two a water cooler. The ground and first floors of the same building hold a well-known fish-cake shop and its café, and four writers went on to one or the other.

What 26 bloggers said

24/26Most ordered
lunch buffet

24/26Most-said good thing
Not expensive

2/26Posts disclosing payment

We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (24) and “Roomy” (23).

What they liked

Not expensive24 of 26 posts

Roomy23 of 26 posts

Clean18 of 26 posts

Friendly staff9 of 26 posts

What they struggled with

Unremarkable5 of 26 posts

Had to wait2 of 26 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is lunch buffet (런치뷔페 (1인)) — 24 of 26 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

런치뷔페 (1인)24 ate it
lunch buffet₩13,000 · ₩15,000
This is the whole menu: **a weekday-lunch-only buffet built around Korean home cooking.** Rice, a soup, a porridge and a cream soup; a bibimbap station; a noodle station you assemble yourself; five or six hot dishes; salads and lettuce for wrapping; then dessert and coffee, all in the one price. Eight writers note the spread changes daily
**The price went up.** Seventeen posts between September 2025 and 24 August 2026 say ₩13,000; four from 11 September 2026 onwards say ₩15,000. The 24 August post announces the rise in advance, from the first of September. **You pay on the way in** — three describe paying at the counter and then sitting where you like, and one notes that a group can pay separately. One says there is no time limit at the table. Three paid with the city's local currency card; one saw meal tickets for sale.

더운 요리 코너 (제육볶음·불고기·잡채 등)17 ate it
hot dish corner
Five or six hot dishes that change daily. **Only a handful recur across twenty-six posts** — stir-fried pork (ten), glass noodles (nine), soy-braised beef (eight), tortilla rolls (six), takoyaki (four). Everything else appears once: dumplings, yaki-udon, mapo tofu, fried fish cutlet, two different sweet-and-sour chicken dishes, jellyfish salad, a pressed rib patty, chicken skewers, candied sweet potato, kimchi pancake, acorn jelly, blood sausage, gimbap, assorted fritters, bean sprouts, oil pasta, tofu with kimchi, soft tofu
**Eight posts say the spread changes daily, so the list above is a pile of single sightings.** One writer went back for more chicken skewers and found them gone, replaced by meat patties. Two describe a smoky char on the pork; two say the beef is not tough. Against that: one found the yaki-udon noodles too thin, one found the sweet-and-sour chicken not what he expected, and one found the glass noodles a touch sweet.
비빔밥 코너16 ate it
bibimbap corner
**The station these writers use most.** You take a bowl, choose white or multigrain rice, pile on as many of the seasoned vegetables as you want, then add laver, sesame oil and either red-pepper paste or the thicker soybean one. Three writers counted the vegetables and got seven, eight and ten — it changes by the day
Four writers report that nearly everyone in the room was making one. **Five say the vegetables are seasoned lightly**, and one who claims never to touch bibimbap at a buffet calls this one good enough for a specialist restaurant. Two prefer the soybean paste to the chilli one. Spring cabbage, kelp leaves and wild-garlic leaves each appear in exactly one post — **on three different dates.** The single complaint on record is that there is no fried egg.
오늘의 국 · 죽 · 스프9 ate it
soup and porridge corner
One soup, one rice porridge and one cream soup, changing daily. As one writer puts it, they seem to be covering every taste at once
What the posts record: pork-and-kimchi stew, dried-pollack soup, soybean-paste soup, seaweed soup, a dried-radish-leaf soup; pumpkin, black-sesame and sweet-pumpkin porridges; mushroom and cream soups. **Pumpkin porridge turns up most often (five posts).** One writer had three helpings of it; two went back for a second cream soup. One notes each soup sits under a lid.
샐러드 · 쌈 채소 코너8 ate it
salad and ssam corner
Two or three salads and, set apart, **leaves for wrapping.** Four writers single these out: wrap the meat in lettuce or kelp and you need much less rice
Recorded: sweet-pumpkin, tomato, sweetcorn, cabbage, crab-stick, pasta and fruit salads. **Four say you can build a plate of vegetables and protein and nothing else**, two of them for reasons of diet or blood sugar. One writer was delighted to find kelp and cabbage leaves. Another notes that with vegetables as dear as they are, eating as many as you want is the point.

3 more dishes

즉석 잔치국수 코너8 ate it
janchi guksu corner
Take as much noodle and garnish as you want and ladle the hot broth over it. One writer notes the garnishes are cut fine
**They disagree on the broth** — one finds it deep and savoury, another wishes it were stronger, and a third calls it unremarkable. In summer a cold buckwheat noodle appears instead (three posts); one March post found a cold spicy noodle. One writer says the portion is judged well enough that you can still manage a bowl after everything else.

후식 코너 (토스트·요거트·시리얼·과일·커피)13 ate it
dessert corner
Toast your own bread, put out jam, spoon cereal over yoghurt, then fruit, juice and coffee. **Three writers make the same point: with a coffee machine here you need not go on to a café**
Pineapple is the usual fruit (eight posts); tangerine and mango appear once each. Orange and plum juice are constant; two mention grapefruit juice and two mention **the sweet rice drink and a cinnamon punch** (both in March 2026). Two found small cakes. Two report two kinds of cereal and confess to using both. One was sorry there was no ice cream.

Parking

6 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.

Posts saying you cannot	6 of 26 posts

Not one writer parked a car, and the posts contradict each other about whether you can. Six say there is no parking and no validation; one adds that the hotel has a car park but will not stamp for the restaurant, and another that the underground level is off limits. Against them, a single post says you may use the hotel's own spaces, subject to asking first. Five or six offer the same workaround instead: the kerbside near the hotel is not enforced between half past eleven and two in the afternoon. Two name a nearby paid car park. All of it, on both sides, is repeated notice rather than anybody's experience. The station is directly outside and almost everyone walked or arrived by train. If you mean to drive, ring first.

Who came, and with whom

Family visit 7 of 26 posts
Solo visit 2 of 26 posts
With a friend 2 of 26 posts
Group visit 1 of 26 posts
Came with children 1 of 26 posts

Where it is

From the station

25 posts say it is walkable from the station.

Getting inside

Second floor	26 of 26 posts
Lift to the floor	12 of 26 posts
Step-free access	1 of 26 posts
Toilet inside	3 of 26 posts

The buffet is on the tenth floor. All twenty-six posts say so and twelve describe the lift. The ground floor is a fish-cake shop; four writers explain that you pass the hotel's own reception and keep walking to reach the lift at the back — one of them tells you not to be put off by the reception desk. Step out at ten and the kitchen is to one side with the buffet entrance straight ahead. Almost nobody writes about the floors in between; one mentions a men's sauna free to hotel guests, and a separate business (a massage shop) occupies the fourth.

It is on the tenth floor and the lift is the only way up — twelve writers describe taking it; not one took stairs. Exactly one writer mentions a pushchair: she says the lift was fine and that there is a slope she could get the pushchair up. That reads as a ramp at the building entrance, but nobody records whether there is a lip at the door, how steep the slope is, or how big the lift is. The only line about the lift itself is that it was smaller than expected and very fast. No post says anything about getting in with a wheelchair — that is 'nobody looked', not 'you cannot'. Bear in mind too that a buffet means walking to the food yourself, and that the room fills at lunch. If you need to be sure, ring and ask.

Three writers looked at the toilet themselves — it is on the tenth floor with the buffet, by the entrance. One calls it pleasant and easy to find; one notes it is right at the door; the third went after her meal and reports the basins and cubicles in good order. Whether the men's and women's are separate we do not know — the phrase appears once, but inside a line lifted whole from the Naver listing beside group bookings, wi-fi and takeaway, so we have not counted it. Nobody says how many cubicles there are or how much room there is inside.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. 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 disclosing payment2 of 26 posts
Posts saying they paid themselves3 of 26 posts
Posts saying nothing either way21 of 26 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 28 posts we gathered, 2 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.

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

09120305060809

Month by month

Month	Posts
2025-09	1
2025-12	1
2026-03	5
2026-05	2
2026-06	1
2026-08	10
2026-09	6

What we do not know

One to three minutes' walk from Busan Station — twenty-five posts say so, and they name different exits. Five say exit 6, one says exit 8, one says right from the upper concourse, one says beside the taxi rank. Buildings are the surer landmark: across from the Starbucks (two), the building with the fish-cake shop on the ground floor (five), the grey block next to the Kwangjang Building with HOTEL in white letters (two). Two note there are two ways in — through the fish-cake shop's side, or a little further along the road at the hotel's main entrance. Either way you walk through to the lift at the back and get out at ten, straight into the buffet; eight posts describe exactly that. Two mention a sign on the tenth floor that made it easy.
Two writers waited, and neither waited for a table. One reached the ground floor at half past eleven and found a queue for the lift; it took about ten minutes, though she notes it moved faster than expected because the car only ran between one and ten. Another had to let a full lift go. A third found the lift smaller than she expected. Nobody reports queuing outside for a seat — but two found the room full at lunch, and one of those says staff were warning arrivals they would have to share a table (she had booked, and got a two-seater). Three arrived around twenty past eleven to a nearly empty room and watched it fill by noon. Several posts advise coming close to opening — but that exact sentence also appears in the restaurant's own publicity, so we cannot tell how many arrived at it themselves.
The hours come in two versions, and the one that lets you walk in for lunch is the shorter one. Eight posts give eleven in the morning to nine at night with a long afternoon break — those are the function room's hours, and every one of those posts adds in its own text that weekday evenings and weekends are for booked events only. The other thirteen give the buffet's real hours, and those split too: until half past two (five), until two (four), until one (three). The three that say one o'clock are all from August and September 2026 — but so are some that say half past two. One gives a last entry at two. The closing days disagree as well: four say Sunday, two of those add Saturday, and one says Saturday opens from eleven to two. Two say public holidays. If you are coming as a group or are tight for time, ring first — the numbers in these posts are 0507-1345-3575 and 051-464-3575, with a single post giving 051-464-3141.
Most of the writing about this place sits inside one search-keyword campaign, and only two posts disclose a sponsorship. Phrases like 'Busan Station group booking' and 'first-birthday party venue' are stamped through the titles and the text, and four sentences — ninety seats at most, a function room for groups, available for private hire, a buffet with plenty of choice — appear word for word in more than ten posts. That is the restaurant's own publicity travelling intact, so we have not counted those sentences. What people ate differs post to post, so we did not throw the posts out. Two disclose: one received a buffet voucher through a review agency (September 2026), and one carries a single tag, #sponsored, buried mid-text (August 2026). Three declare they paid; two of those posted the receipt, and one of them even marks where his photographs stop being his own and start coming from the restaurant's blog. One post we dropped entirely — it had no record of eating at all, only the publicity and a booking number.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 215 candidate posts we opened 64 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.