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Geumsu Bokguk Centum

금수복국 센텀점 Geumsu means golden water and bokguk is pufferfish soup; Centum is the district, so the name reads as the Centum branch of the Golden Water Pufferfish Soup house.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Geumsu Bokguk's Centum branch is a pufferfish-soup house in the Centum Square building across the road from BEXCO. The registered name carries the branch; the sign and the customers just say Centum. It is a branch of the original house in Jung-dong, Haeundae, and two writers note there are several more in Seoul. The soup comes from three fish — silver, blunthead and yellowfin — each in a clear or a spicy broth, standard or large. The fried fish, the dressed skin, the cold raw dish, the cutlet and the dumplings can all be ordered separately. It opens in the morning and closes at ten at night, and most of the posts come from two kinds of visitor: someone nursing a hangover, and someone who came for a BEXCO event and needed a meal. The posts we read run from January 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 10 posts: 6 wrote 08:00–22:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is bokguk (복국) — 6 of 15 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

• 복국6 ate it
  bokguk₩16,000

  Six writers ate a bowl and never said which fish. They wrote things like "one spicy and one clear", "the clear one", "a hot bowl of it". They certainly ate; we simply cannot tell which of the three it was, so we count them here rather than guess them into the rows above.

  Only one gave a price: 16,000 for a spicy bowl, in August 2026. That happens to match the standard spicy silver-pufferfish price, but the writer never said silver, so we have not counted it there.

• 까치복국4 ate it
  kkachibok-guk₩22,000 · ₩23,000 · ₩26,000 · ₩27,000

  The most expensive of the three. Two writers say outright that they could not tell the kinds apart so they ordered the dearest one; a third says she was on holiday and spent a little more. More people chose it by price than by taste. Two posts quote the shop's line about its tender flesh.

  From the March 2025 board: 22,000 clear and 23,000 spicy for a standard bowl, 26,000 and 27,000 large. A September 2026 post still gives 23,000.

• 은복국4 ate it
  eunbok-guk₩15,000 · ₩16,000 · ₩18,000 · ₩19,000

  The cheapest of the three pufferfish soups, and the one the shop's own blurb calls the most ordered. Silver pufferfish are small: one writer found two tails in a single pot. Another describes the flesh as dense, closer to mackerel than to white fish.

  Clear 15,000 / spicy 16,000 for a standard bowl, 18,000 and 19,000 for the large. All four come from one writer's transcription of the board in March 2025; a September 2026 post quotes the same two standard prices, so they have not moved in two years.

• 밀복국2 ate it
  milbok-guk₩20,000 · ₩21,000 · ₩22,000 · ₩24,000 · ₩25,000

  The middle grade. One writer ordered it alongside the silver pufferfish and compared the two side by side: served separately you would not tell them apart, but next to each other the milbok is chewier.

  This one went up. The March 2025 board read 20,000 clear (24,000 large) and 21,000 spicy (25,000 large); a writer who ate the clear version in August 2026 and another who copied the board in September 2026 both give 22,000. A January 2025 post lists 24,000 large and 20,000 standard.

• 복물회1 ate it
  bok-mulhoe₩20,000 · ₩33,000

  The one dish a writer regretted. The dressing was sharp and cold and the vegetables generous, but the fish had not been cut into bite-sized pieces — lift a piece with chopsticks and the whole strip came up. Her title says it plainly: the soup, not the cold raw dish. She flags the limit herself: this was what she got on the day she went.

  The writer who ate it paid 20,000; the March 2025 board lists 20,000 standard and 33,000 large.

• 참복 2인 세트1 ate it
  chambok set₩75,000 set

  Two soups — you pick clear or spicy for each — plus the fried pufferfish, for two people. One writer ordered it and called the balance of the 75,000-won set excellent. The posts disagree about chambok, though: a September 2026 writer notes that the Daechi branch keeps live chambok but this one does not, while the set was eaten here in July 2026. Whether it left the board in between, or whether live chambok and the chambok set are different things, we do not know.

  75,000 won for two people. We have not counted it as a price for one.

• 복까스1 ate it
  bok-kkaseu₩15,000

  A pufferfish cutlet. One writer ate it: a thick piece of the fish fried crisp outside and moist inside, under a sweet-sour sauce, with pickles, cabbage salad and a fried prawn alongside. One person, one post.

  15,000 won in March 2025 — the only post that prices it.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 복튀김5 ate it
  bok-twigim₩28,000

  The one dish the sixteen posts agree on. Five people ate it and five praised it: the leanest of fried fish, the best fried fish one writer had ever eaten, crisp outside and springy inside, good enough to want a portion to take away. One liked it best dipped in wasabi salt. It usually arrives as part of the couple set or the chambok set.

  28,000 won on its own, from the March 2025 board, which also lists fried pufferfish skin separately at 25,000. Counted as a side, not as a meal.

• 복껍질무침4 ate it
  bok-kkeopjil muchim₩18,000

  Pufferfish skin in a sharp dressing. Four ate it and found it bracing — one says it brings back an appetite lost to summer. Two writers, though, could not get past the skin itself: one left it, calling it thick and rough; another found it slippery but edible while her sister refused it.

  18,000 won on the March 2025 board; usually arrives as part of the couple set. Counted as a side.

• 커플세트3 ate it
  couple set₩18,000 · ₩20,000

  An add-on to a soup order: a plate of dressed pufferfish skin and a plate of the fried fish. Three writers added it, and all three single out the fried fish.

  It went up: 18,000 in March 2025, 20,000 in August and September 2026. Two writers describe it as a 20,000-won addition to the soup. Because it is an addition, we have not counted it as a price for a meal.

• 복만두2 ate it
  bok-mandu₩6,000 · ₩8,000

  Two writers ordered it and they do not agree. In January 2025 it was a real treat, crisp outside and soft within, the thing she always orders here. In September 2026 another ordered it wanting something more and found it just dumplings — crisp enough to make him want a beer.

  Both the name and the price differ. January 2025 gives bok-mandu at 8,000; the March 2025 board gives don-bok gun-mandu at 6,000. We cannot tell whether these are the same thing renamed or two separate items.

Parking

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

Plenty of posts mention parking; one person actually parked. Eight touch on it, but seven are a single line in a bullet block — "1 hour free", "there is mall parking" — or third-person instructions that end "you just use it". One writer describes doing it: round the corner and up to level two above ground, one hour free with a meal and a thousand won per extra half hour, and you must register the plate. She also compares the cost with BEXCO's own car park. The two accounts of where it is do not match: she says level two above ground, another post says the building's underground car park. Which is right, or whether both work, we do not know. The one hour free is the same in five posts.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

No post says which floor. Our ledger puts the shop at unit 101-1 on the ground floor of Centum Square, and one writer copied that unit number into an address line, but not one of the sixteen states a floor. Whether there are steps, and how many doors there are, we also do not know — one writer notes coming in through a back door past the kitchen and how it looks from the front, which tells us only that there is more than one. Two other businesses trade on that same ground floor, so from the posts alone you could not tell which door is ours.

Nobody wrote about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, doorstep, step and step-free appear nowhere in the sixteen posts — we searched by machine and checked by hand. There is no claim that it works, and none that it does not.

Not one post mentions a toilet. The word does not appear once in the sixteen. Whether it is inside the restaurant or out in the building's corridor, and whether the men's and women's are separate, we do not know.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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 themselves1 / 151 of 15 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way14 / 1514 of 15 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Sixteen posts, not twenty-seven. Eleven of the twenty-seven that came in under this address turned out not to be about this restaurant. Seven are about neighbours on the same floor: the ground floor of Centum Square is shared, so a stir-fried-octopus house at unit 102 and a grill house at unit 103 carry the same street address as we do. Two of those seven do name us — but only as a landmark, as in "right next to Geumsu Bokguk, so it's easy to find". Four more are about the original Haeundae house: one says outright "the Geumsu Bokguk head shop right beside our lodging... there's a second floor too, and it's open around the clock" (this branch closes at ten), two are round-ups whose entry is named "head shop" or "Haeundae head shop", and one admits in its own words to being a travel plan assembled from other people's blogs.
• The Michelin listing is not this restaurant's. Six posts mention three consecutive years in the guide, from 2024 to 2026, and all six are talking about the Haeundae head shop — five say so explicitly, and the sixth writes of this branch as inheriting the head shop's reputation. Not one post claims the listing for this address, so we have not counted it as an award for this kitchen.
• Nobody wrote about getting here without a car in their own footsteps. In sixteen posts not one describes the walk from a subway or a bus. One gives "five minutes from exits 3 or 9 at Centum City station", but that sits in an information block at the foot of the post, not in an account of walking it. Four writers came over from business at BEXCO and none of them says which door they left by or how long it took. This is not a claim that the trip is hard — it is a record that nobody wrote it down.
• No post declares a sponsorship, and one states plainly that she paid her own way. Two, though, need reading with care. One from March 2025 is written in a promotional register, transcribing some thirty lines of prices along with gift-card denominations and whether the local currency card earns cashback. One from July 2026 carries third-person passages that read as if supplied — the modern, comfortable interior set against the old-house feel of the original. Both are counted, because both contain unmistakable records of eating: a large silver-pufferfish bowl and a cutlet in the first, a chambok set for two shared with a sister and a dipping sauce asked for separately in the second. Nothing was counted from the passages that look copied.
• The opening time appears to have changed. Four posts say seven in the morning and six say eight, and the dates separate cleanly: the seven-o'clock posts are from January 2025, June 2025, March 2026 and July 2026, while every eight-o'clock post is from 14 August 2026 or later. That is a change, not a disagreement, and eight looks current. Last orders moved too — 21:30 in the January 2025 post, 21:20 in three posts from July and August 2026. We have only read the posts, not asked the restaurant, so anyone planning an early breakfast is better off phoning.

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Of 296 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 15 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.

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