Korean
Ilgwang Daebokjip
일광대복집 Ilgwang is the seaside town it stands in; daebokjip reads as 'big pufferfish house' (bok is pufferfish).
Compiled from 18 blog posts read in fullSources →
Ilgwang Daebokjip is a pufferfish restaurant at 3 Ihwa-ro, Ilgwang-eup, Gijang, right by Ilgwang station on the Donghae line. You order soup by choosing a fish and a broth (clear jiri, spicy maeuntang or doenjang); posts list chambok at 18,000 won, milbok at 20,000 and kkachibok at 22,000. Fried pufferfish (small, 25,000 won) and sweet-and-sour puffer are only served at set hours, and the upstairs floor is reserved for a 70,000-won course. It opens at 8 a.m., and many writers went for breakfast or a hangover cure. We read 30 posts dated 8 February to 27 October 2026; 20 of them describe an actual meal.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address부산광역시 기장군 일광읍 이화로 33 Ihwa-ro, Gijang-gun, Busan
- Phone051-721-1561
- Typical spend₩8,000 – ₩70,000
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 576 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 11 posts: 10 wrote 08:00–21:00.
| No day given | 08:00–21:00 | 10 of 11 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Last order | 20:15 | 6 of 6 posts |
| Closed | 월요일(공휴일이면 화요일) | 3 of 10 posts |
| Closed | Monday | 6 of 10 posts |
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.
What sets it apart
- Seven posts say the place is large and three mention private rooms; one notes the whole building is the restaurant. Two point out the open kitchen and two call it clean. Even so, writers keep noting how full it was at weekend lunch and early in the morning.
- Waiting depends on the hour. One writer walked straight in at 10:10 on a Saturday morning; another got a table at 12:40 in February just before a queue formed, and photographed the sign-up sheet. A third notes a waiting room by the entrance. No one recorded how many minutes a lunchtime wait takes.
- Seven posts describe family meals. Two mention high chairs; one says staff brought seaweed for the baby, another that they set out an extra bowl and spoon so a child could share with a sibling. Two posts were with friends and two were groups of six.
- Seven or eight side dishes come out, and dried baby-hairtail stew and sea-squirt jeotgal are the most praised. Two posts asked for refills, one noting staff did so without the least reluctance. One writer bought a 10,000-won tub of the jeotgal to take home; another said the sides arrived after the soup.
3 more
- The fried puffer comes bone-in, tail and body, like fried chicken. Two posts call the batter crisp and three describe the flesh (in soup or fried) as thick; one found the batter seasoning quite salty.
- Four posts say it is not cheap; one calls the prices reasonable. One party of six paid 172,000 won for six kkachibok soups and a large sweet-and-sour puffer. Prices did not change between February and October.
- One writer said no spot could be better for public transport, as it sits right outside Ilgwang station; several others copied the note that it is near exit 1.
What 18 bloggers said
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Roomy
We read all 18 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (7) and “Returning customer” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Parking capacity 7 of 18 posts
- Private room 3 of 18 posts
- Second floor 2 of 18 posts
- High chairs 2 of 18 posts
- Free refills 2 of 18 posts
- Open kitchen 2 of 18 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 1 of 18 posts
- Takes reservations 1 of 18 posts
- Reachable by transit 1 of 18 posts
- Step-free access 1 of 18 posts
- Waiting area 1 of 18 posts
- Origin labelling posted 1 of 18 posts
- Takeout 1 of 18 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
10 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 10 of 18 posts |
|---|
Parking is the most-repeated point. Ten of the 20 meal posts mention it, and seven say the lot in front is big; one calls it cramped. A February writer was waved in by a parking attendant, while her companions used the Ilgwang station car park and had the barrier released by giving their plate number at the till.
Who came, and with whom
- Family visit 7 of 18 posts
- Came with children 3 of 18 posts
- With a friend 2 of 18 posts
- Group visit 2 of 18 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
One writer said no spot could be better for public transport, as it sits right outside Ilgwang station; several others copied the note that it is near exit 1.
Getting inside
| Second floor | 2 of 18 posts |
|---|---|
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 1 (of 18 posts read) |
| Step-free access | 1 of 18 posts |
The upstairs floor is for course diners. Two posts say they were seated on the ground floor with the course room above, and one adds that the upstairs opens when downstairs is full. The upstairs rules (no same-day lunch booking, a 3:00-5:30 p.m. break, last order 7:30 p.m.) were copied from a notice. One post confirms the dining room is at ground level, not a basement.
No one says whether there is a step or stairs at the entrance. One family took a stroller in and was seated inside. Another post claims the room is designed for wheelchairs, but not from experience, so we did not count it.
No post mentions where the toilets are or whether they are separate; that means unknown, not absent.
No one mentioned: Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Toilet inside · 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 saying they paid themselves3 of 18 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 18 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 27 posts we gathered, 9 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.
| 2026-08-05 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 5 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
| 2026-10 | 3 |
What we do not know
- Eleven meal posts give hours: ten say 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., nine say closed Mondays, six give last order at 8:15 p.m., mostly copied from listings. One August post alone says open daily until 9:15 p.m., closed only on holiday days. Several posts note that fried dishes and bulgogi are not served early in the morning or at peak times.
- One post booked a ground-floor table (5:30 p.m.). Many posts give the same phone number, 051-721-1561; the upstairs course requires advance booking, according to copied notices.
- Some claims are hearsay and were not counted: three posts credit an MBC TV appearance, one says KBS; one heard the restaurant moved here around 2009 while another says it has been in the same spot for over 30 years. Nine info-only or listicle posts were not counted.
Sources (18)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 1박 2일 부산 먹여행 | 이재모피자, 서면 이세계, 광안리 톤쇼우, 송정 맵스, 기장 일광대복집 2026-07-06 · 내가 지은 것들 · via Daum
- 부산 기장 일광해수욕장맛집 오랫동안 사랑받아온 일광대복집 2026-07-05 · 수리봉의 놀이터
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Of 295 candidate posts we opened 109 and kept 18 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.