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Soup and riceKorean

Jangnal Sundae Gukbap Sachang Sijang-jeom

장날순대국밥 사창시장점 Blood-sausage stew in a Cheongju market alley — four tables, bowls buried in ground perilla

Data as of · Published ·

Jangnal Sundae Gukbap's Sachang Market branch is a blood-sausage stew house tucked inside the market alleys near Chungbuk National University in Cheongju. The sign says sundae gukbap, but the sausage, the boiled pork, the offal and the head meat each get their own bowl, and there is tripe hotpot, stir-fried vegetable sausage, sausage platters and sliced head meat besides — a stew house that doubles as a drinking place. The bowls come buried in ground perilla, already seasoned. It is small: one writer counts four tables, with a raised floor-seating corner off to one side. There are several branches of this name in Cheongju; this is the one inside the market. The posts we read run from October 2024 to May 2026.

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Gukbap soup with riceAn AI drawing of Gukbap as a dish. Not a photograph of this shop, and not drawn from this shop's menu. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

The basics

Address충청북도 청주시 서원구 창신로 30, 1층 (사창동)
30 Changsin-ro, Cheongju-si Seowon-gu, Chungcheongbuk-do
Phone043-268-2202
Typical spend₩9,000 only 1 of 8 dishes carries a price
Floor area21 m²
StatusIn business

When it opens

Of 3 posts: 2 wrote Daily 11:00–23:00.

OpenDaily11:00–23:00 2 of 3 posts last seen 2025-03
Closed매월 둘째, 넷째 화요일 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-01

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

  1. It is a small room. A 2024 post counts four tables and tells you so up front; a 2025 writer who has been to both branches says flatly that the market one is the cramped one. There is a raised corner where you take your shoes off. Nothing has been done to the décor, and one writer says so admiringly — no thought spent on the interior, she writes, and not a trace of performance in the way the women talk to each other across the room.
  2. The bowls are full. Four writers say so. The one who came alone describes ten rounds of four or five pieces at a time on her chopsticks, and only got through half her rice as a result. The one who had the pork bowl asks you to look at how much of it there is; another's husband wants to know how they can afford to give away that much offal. A couple who took a medium tripe hotpot home reckoned on three days of leftovers and finished it that night.
  3. It is seasoned on the strong side — and how people take that divides them. One writer, who eats lightly salted food, found it a touch salty and left the shrimp sauce and the kimchi brine alone; another calls the broth strongly seasoned and means it as a compliment. Two others go the opposite way: seasoned enough that you need add nothing, and not salty with it; seasoned so exactly that the chilli paste stays in its dish. Taste the broth before you stir anything into it.
  4. They will take a request. A woman picking up a tripe hotpot asked whether half the tripe could be blood sausage and offered to pay the difference; she got the glutinous-rice kind and her post never mentions a surcharge. Another simply says the staff are kind, twice over; a third records being told to get her spoon in quickly before the broth went over the rim. A couple who came early one December morning in 2025 noticed several of the servers were foreign, and guessed at students from the university up the road.

What 8 bloggers said

We read all 8 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (4) and “Would return” (3).

What they liked

Large portions4 of 8 posts
Would return3 of 8 posts
Returning customer2 of 8 posts
Friendly staff2 of 8 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped2 of 8 posts
Salty / strongly seasoned2 of 8 posts

Things you can check on site

Takeout1 of 8 posts
Floor seating1 of 8 posts
Beer served1 of 8 posts

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

The most ordered dish is sundae gukbap (순대국밥) — 4 of 8 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

Parking

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

Posts saying you can park2 of 8 posts

You use the market's public car park; the shop has none. Two writers give the same terms: free for the first 45 minutes, then ₩500 per half hour, capped at ₩10,000 a day. One adds that as far as she knows the shop does not validate — so the meter is yours. A bowl of stew will fit inside the free window; a hotpot will not. One writer says you can leave a car in the alley, which in a working market is advice to take carefully.

Who came, and with whom

Date3 of 8 posts
Solo visit1 of 8 posts
Family visit1 of 8 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Jangnal Sundae Gukbap Sachang Sijang-jeom is

Getting inside

Nothing is written about steps or levels. The register says ground floor, but none of the eight posts says whether the way in from the market alley is flat or has a lip. There is a raised, shoes-off seating area to one side, which tells you there is a step up to that corner and nothing at all about the one at the door.

We do not know whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Not one of the eight mentions a threshold, a ramp, a door width or the width of the aisles. What we know is that there are four tables and a shoes-off corner, and that you reach them down an alley inside a market. Market alleys are usually uneven and half-occupied by stalls — but nobody says this one is, so that too is guesswork, and we are not going to guess.

One writer mentions the toilet, and what she says is that it has no door. In May 2025, eating alone, she photographed it and wrote — with an audible double take — that the door does indeed appear to be missing. That is the whole record. Whether it is inside the shop or out in the market passage, whether it is still like that, whether there is more than one: nobody wrote it down. One account is not enough to send you on, and too much to leave out.

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 themselves2 of 8 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way6 of 8 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 11 posts we gathered, 3 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

10030510120105
Month by month
MonthPosts
2024-101
2025-031
2025-051
2025-101
2025-121
2026-012
2026-051

What we do not know

  • We counted eight of thirty, because a market address belongs to everyone in the market. "30 Changsin-ro" is the whole of Sachang Market, so twenty of the thirty posts we had collected turned out to be about other shops inside it — six about an ox-head soup place, four about rice-cake shops selling the pizza-topped sponge cake that was briefly everywhere, and single posts about a sausage stall, a banchan shop, a kalguksu house, a kimbap place and a fish-shaped-pastry stand. Not one of those twenty contains the words Jangnal Sundae. Two more were about a different branch — one an account of the 24-hour location by the university crossroads, the other a five-shop listicle that fills our slot with that branch. A third simply transcribed the address and the prices and awarded stars, without saying what was eaten. Eight is a small number, and the figures on this page are correspondingly cautious.
  • Nobody writes about getting here without a car. Two of the eight describe the market car park; not one mentions a bus or a train. One group left the car behind so they could drink and walked, without saying from where. Beyond the university being nearby and the shop being inside the market, we know nothing about the journey — except that it sits down an alley, so you will be following signs in.
  • People describe a full room; nobody describes waiting in it. A group who arrived before eleven one October morning in 2025 found it already busy with deliveries going out non-stop, and took that as a good sign; a woman eating alone at lunch says hers was the only empty table. Yet not one of the eight records a wait. In a four-table room, the middle of lunch surely costs you something — we just have nothing that says how much.
  • The hours look to have shortened — and the branches get mixed up often enough to be worth a warning. Posts from October 2024 and March 2025 give 11am to 11pm daily, closed the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. A January 2026 post gives 10am to 9pm, same closing days — an hour earlier at the front, two hours earlier at the back. On top of that, two posts describe a 24-hour operation, and both of them are about a different branch (both are among those we set aside). If you are going late, ring first — the all-night one is not this one.
  • Two phone numbers circulate. The business register carries 043-268-2202; two posts print 070-4001-0792. The 070 is an internet line, which may belong to this shop or may be shared across the branches — a post about a different branch gives the same 070 number. We list the registered one. There is a good deal to check before going — the step at the door, the toilet, what time it actually closes now — so say which branch you mean when you call.

Sources (8)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. [임신일기] 33주부터 37주까지 일상 기록 청주미즈맘 부부출산교실 34주 막달검사 검사결과 셀프만삭... 2026-05-20 · episode of · via Daum
  2. 251200 12월 일상 1️⃣2️⃣💚 2026-01-05 · (୨୧ ❛ᴗ❛)✧ · via Daum
  3. 청주 순대국밥 일티어 사창시장 [장날순대국밥] 2026-01-02 · 숭이의 기록장 · via Daum
  4. 2025.12월 일상 2025-12-22 · 일상 · via Daum
  5. 10월 일기 - 반클리프 귀걸이 ♥️ / 도현 대청호 마라톤 / 물반고기반 대하 2025-10-21 · 천방지축 어리둥절 린다의 하루 · via Daum
  6. * 대낮에 소주깔뻔한거 참고 다녀온 장날순대국밥 2025-05-09 · NURIverse : LUCK, READ MY JOURNAL · via Daum
  7. 청주 사창동 곱창전골 장날 순대 국밥 내돈 내산 2025-03-20 · #김씩씩#치킨연쇄살인마 · via Daum
  8. 청주 사창시장 맛집 장날순대국밥 추천 2024-10-01 · 단아네 집

Of 178 candidate posts we opened 87 and kept 8 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.