Gilpost · Cheongju-si Sangdang-gu, Yongam-dong
DONGBONG
동봉 Dongbong The two Chinese characters on the box, 同封, mean "enclosed together" — what you send in the same envelope.
Other · Cheongju-si Sangdang-gu, Yongam-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Dongbong is an egg tart shop in a back lane in Yongam-dong, Cheongju, behind the post office and the supermarket. The sign is small and easy to walk past; what you see through the glass front is a case of yellow tarts. The Portuguese kind is the centre of it, with corn, matcha, Earl Grey, truffle and pistachio versions alongside, plus an apple pie and scones, and coffee and tea to go with them. Ten in the morning to half past seven, every day; two posts say there is no closing day. It moved here from another district in October 2025, and gained tables in the move. There is no car park. The posts we read run from October 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 충청북도 청주시 상당구 호미로167번길 49, 1층 (용암동) 49 Homi-ro 167beon-gil, Cheongju-si Sangdang-gu, Chungcheongbuk-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1315-8530 |
| Typical spend | ₩3,500 – ₩6,800 |
| Floor area | 140 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 16 posts: 16 wrote Daily 10:00–19:30.
| Open | Daily | 10:00–19:30 16 of 16 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Closed | 없음 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-04 |
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
- The shop moved here in October 2025, from another part of the city. Seven writers say so in their own words, and several came specifically because they had heard — one glad it was now closer to home, one because it had landed near her office. The move brought tables: you can now sit down, which one writer notes with relief. Be careful reading about this name. It has had a counter inside a department store food hall (the owner told one writer the lease ran a year and had ended), it goes out as a pop-up in department stores and outlet malls, and it sells by post in fixed windows. This page counts only visits to the Yongam-dong shop — three posts about the other counters were removed entirely.
- The room is large and the seating is not. Eight writers call it spacious, and four of them add the same qualification in different words: a good deal of floor, remarkably few tables. The four who count them agree closely — one long communal table and three smaller ones, with a bench along one wall. A table for a group is unusual in a café this size, and two writers make a point of it. The round tables, though, are close enough that one warns you will catch a stranger's eye. White and wood; three note how much light the glass front lets in, and five call it quiet.
- Taking it away is closer to the shop's main business. Fifteen of twenty-five writers bought to carry out, and two remark on how much of the trade goes that way. Singles come in waxed paper; four or more go in a box. Eleven posts use the word "gift" — a thank-you, a housewarming, a box for an office — and two like the box for the shop's name in Chinese characters on it. Any drink is ₩1,000 cheaper taken away, which four mention. There is delivery, though one writer found she could not order just one. Same-day order and same-day pickup through the map app is possible, by another account. Those who kept them overnight reheated them — the box says to, and one writer prefers an air fryer to a microwave.
- There are high chairs. Six writers mention them and four go on to recommend the place for that reason; two of them actually came with a child. Nobody says whether there is a changing table, or how many high chairs there are. Five writers call the room quiet, which is worth weighing alongside.
- It is at street level with no stairs — though only one writer says so in her own words: hard to spot, she notes, and it is the ground floor of this building. The floor appears in the address line of all twenty-five posts, but that line is printed by the check-in widget and we have not counted it. Four writers warn that the sign is small and easy to walk past, and one advises simply following the satnav to the door. The glass front, which shows you the whole room from outside, is the better landmark.
- Seven writers had been before and seven were coming for the first time — the shop is not new, but this address is, and the two groups are about evenly split. The returners count their visits: one is on her nth, one calls it where she first understood what an egg tart was, one drops in whenever she is in the area, and one puts "more than ten times" in her title. The first-timers mostly arrive having eaten one at the department store counter or a pop-up and come looking for the shop itself. Thirteen say they will be back; not one says they will not. We have counted the promise and the return separately, because they are different things.
What 25 bloggers said
We read all 25 in full. The most common claims are “Would return” (13) and “Roomy” (8).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Returning customer | yes 7 · no 7 |
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Things you can check on site
| Takeout | 15 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Seats to sit and eat | 10 of 25 posts |
| Relocated | 7 of 25 posts |
| High chairs | 6 of 25 posts |
| Discount offered | 4 of 25 posts |
| Large windows | 3 of 25 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 1 of 25 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 25 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 1 of 25 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 egg tart (에그타르트 (오리지널)) — 22 of 25 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
3 posts say you can park; 10 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.
| Posts saying you can park | 3 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Posts saying you cannot | 10 of 25 posts |
The posts disagree about parking, and in a neighbourhood people drive to, the disagreement matters. Eight say flatly that there is no car park — park in the lane, park on the verge, and one notes that a street of low-rise flats is not a promising place to leave a car. Two of the eight describe what they actually did: one parked three hundred metres away and walked; the other decided it looked hard enough that she would walk from home and call it exercise. Three others say you can stop right outside — one or two cars, two or three at a squeeze. The two accounts are probably the same fact told differently: no lot of its own, a space or two in the lane, and whether it was free depended on the day. One writer notes the white line on the lane. If you drive, hope for the space outside and have a plan for when it is taken.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 3 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 of 25 posts |
| With a friend | 2 of 25 posts |
| Came with children | 2 of 25 posts |
| Came by car | 2 of 25 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 25 posts |
Getting there
Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 1 |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 |
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 1 |
No post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. The words appear nowhere in twenty-five posts — no step, no threshold, no ramp. What we have is this much: it is at street level, the room is large, and there is space between the tables — eight writers say so. Whether there is a lip at the door, and which way the door opens, nobody looked. Six mention high chairs and two came with a child, so a carried baby is clearly fine; a pushchair pushed through the door appears in none of them.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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 themselves10 of 25 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 25 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 27 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 4 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 4 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- For a tart straight out of the oven you have to come in the morning, and by the afternoon there may be none. One writer asked and reports the answer: the door opens at ten and the first tray comes out at about twenty to ten. She went at noon and found them still warm. Against that: a writer who came at two in the afternoon found most of the case sold out, and one who came near closing saw it nearly bare (the plain tarts, she notes, were still there). Another arrived just after a single takeaway customer had bought every corn tart in the shop, and waited forty minutes for the next batch. One post warns of both a queue and a sell-out if you time it badly. Though one writer came late and found everything still there and had trouble choosing. It evidently varies by the day; if you want a particular flavour, ring first.
- Two posts flatly contradict each other about dogs. The one that says no is the most recent thing we read, from September 2026, and reads like the answer to a question actually asked at the counter. The one that says yes is from February 2026, and the claim sits in a header block beside the opening hours and the parking, with no account of anyone bringing an animal. The "no" is both the newer and the better-sourced of the two. We have not confirmed it either way. Ring and ask before you bring a dog.
- The toilet is not in the shop; it is the building's, reached through a passage at the back — one writer explains it, and another adds that it is unisex. A third mentions only that she went. Those three are all we have from twenty-five posts. Whether it is clean, how far the passage runs, whether it is locked and you must ask — nobody says.
- Not one post says how to get here on public transport. No bus number, no walk from a stop. Every set of directions is anchored to a landmark instead — behind the post office, behind the supermarket, opposite the obstetric clinic, near the police post. That is probably because the people writing about it live or work nearby: one has just moved within five minutes' walk, one found it had relocated near her office, one was parking to buy something else and spotted it. Two walked, and both were locals. If you are coming without a car, this page cannot help you. The coordinates on the map are right; route yourself from those.
- Nobody reports queueing. But with four tables it does fill — one writer walked into a full room and took the last seat; another could not photograph the back of the shop for the people in it. One post warns that bad timing brings a wait or a sell-out, though she did not wait herself. It reads less like a place with a queue than a place with very few seats, kept turning over by the steady stream of people buying to take away. Nobody mentions booking a table; one writer notes that you can at least order the tarts ahead through the map app and collect.
- One writer says the taste has changed. It is one post out of twenty-five, and we record it as that. From July 2026: she had loved this place, had not been away long, had seen other people's reviews and hoped they were wrong, dragged her sister and her sister's boyfriend along to check, and found they were not. She does not say what changed. The posts written after hers, in August and September 2026, are as enthusiastic as ever — the best in the city, one of them says, without qualification. We cannot settle it. What we can record is that one person felt it, and that she was a regular.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship or a freebie. Twelve state that they paid, two of them with a photograph of the receipt. The other thirteen say nothing either way. Narrowing the count took some work, though. Of thirty confirmed posts, three were about other counters entirely — two bakery crawls through a department store food hall, and a pop-up stall at an outlet mall whose author writes that she has never been to the shop itself. Two more were taken out of the denominator as visits that never happened: one writer only ever ordered by post, another had them delivered to her flat. That leaves twenty-five posts by twenty-five people; no blogger wrote twice. Search this name and you will get the department store counter, the pop-ups and the postal orders mixed in. None of those is an account of sitting in this room.
Sources (25)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 청주 용암동 카페 동봉 | 에그타르트 맛집 베이커리 아기랑 카페 2025-10-26 · only yul
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Of 70 candidate posts we opened 41 and kept 25 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.