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Jokbal Sinseonsaeng Chungnam Dangjin

족발신선생 충남당진점 Pork trotters boiled then finished in a wood-fired oven, open from mid-afternoon until two in the morning

Korean · Dangjin-si, Eupnae-dong

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

Jokbal Sinseonsaeng is a pork-trotter house in a shopping block across from the arts centre in Dangjin. What sets it apart is the oven: the trotters are boiled, then finished in a wood-fired oven, and the house dish is a whole one carved at the table. It opens at three in the afternoon and closes at two in the morning — no lunch, and much of its trade is late drinking. Order a main and a spicy soft-tofu stew comes free, plus your choice of cold buckwheat noodles or a gorgonzola pizza. It is one branch of a national chain and opened in April 2025. The posts we read run from April 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 11 posts: 11 wrote Daily 15:00–02:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is jjamppong sundubu (짬뽕순두부) — 13 of 13 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

• 화덕족발6 ate it
  hwadeok jokbal₩43,000 · ₩45,000

  **The dish the shop is named for** — the sign reads 'Jokbal Shinseonsaeng, roasted in a wood oven'. Not merely boiled but finished over volcanic stone, writers say; four of them describe a crisp outside, a wet inside and a faint smokiness. It arrives on a little burner so it stays hot to the end

  **The price does not agree** — ₩45,000 on 6 July 2025, ₩43,000 three days later, and we cannot say which stands. One writer who took the medium found it less than overwhelming and resolved to order the large next time. Five mention the posted warning that oven dishes take about fifteen minutes; **one found it came faster than expected.** One thinks the cut is foreleg

• 화덕통구이족발4 ate it
  hwadeok tonggui jokbal₩53,000

  The dish the shop puts first. **It comes whole on a board rather than sliced** — you carve it, or ask a member of staff to. Grilled vegetables come with it, **and a small trotter alongside**

  ₩53,000, per a May 2025 post. One writer calls it too much for two and right for three or four. Another finds it pulls along the grain more easily than it cuts. One took the leftover small trotter home and reports that **it is good cold.** All four who ordered it say they chose it for how it looks

• 반반(실속반반)3 ate it
  banban₩48,000 · ₩63,000

  Half jokbal, half bossam on one plate. The card offers two, three or four choices; all three writers who ordered it took two. **The plate comes divided down the middle and sits on the burner**

  **The price follows the pairing** — ₩48,000 for trotter and spicy trotter, ₩63,000 for trotter and wrapped pork, both October 2025. The one who took the spicy version preferred it outright, for the chew of the fat against the seasoning. The two who took the wrapped pork were less taken: one found it leaner than the boiled pork she knew, the other simply preferred the trotter. Parties of three, four and five shared these

• 백골뱅이탕named in 5
  baek-golbaengi-tang

  **Five writers noted it on the menu and none of them ate it.** Two announce that it is what they will order next time, and that is where it stops

  **Not one post gives a price or a taste.** One repeats that the broth is prized as a hangover dish and a drinking dish — **which she was told, not what she found.** Two note the related dishes beside it on the board. Given that the place trades until two in the morning it is presumably a drinking dish, but **from these posts we can tell you nothing about it**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 짬뽕순두부13 ate it
  jjamppong sundubu

  **It comes free with a main, and it is the most written-about thing here.** You boil it yourself on a gas ring, and they bring a raw egg to break into it. Writers reach for it when the meat wants cutting through, and call it a perfect thing to drink beside; one thinks it good enough to sell on its own

  **Nobody paid for it.** Four call it too good to be a side; five say it cuts the fat of the meat. Two note the clams and courgette in it — and **one writes that it looked rather thin on ingredients.** Most call it the jjamppong version; a couple simply call it a soft-tofu stew

• 쟁반국수(막국수)10 ate it
  jaengban guksu

  **With a main you choose this or the gorgonzola pizza, free.** Eleven writers mention it and nearly all took the noodles — sharp, sweet, piled with vegetables, and more than one wraps it up with the meat in a lettuce leaf

  **Nobody paid for it.** Four chose it because noodles belong with trotters; two wondered about the pizza and could not bring themselves to swap. One is pleased that the free version still comes in a medium bowl. Two praise the bite of the noodles. Two note that it arrives before the meat and sets you up for it

• 고르곤졸라피자3 ate it
  gorgonjolla pija₩6,000

  The free alternative to the noodles. **Six writers record the choice; only two took it** — one, eating the hot jokbal, found the crisp base, the blue cheese and the honey balanced the heat

  ₩6,000 to add, per July and October 2025 posts. **Two of the three had it free; the third took the noodles and paid for this as well.** She found it unremarkable for a trotter house but fine, and insists on the honey. One writer wrapped trotter in it; another suggests it as the choice if you bring children

• 미니족3 ate it
  minijok

  **A small trotter comes alongside the whole roast one,** sized to pull apart by hand. It is also on the menu by itself — and one post notes that **ordering it alone forfeits the free sides**

  **No post gives a price.** One writer is openly delighted by it and eats it with her hands; two say it too comes out of the oven, chewy and crisp at the edge. One took the remainder home and finished it the next day

• 알초밥2 ate it
  al-chobap₩3,000

  One of the three pairings **the shop itself recommends** with the trotter, along with salted oyster and the gorgonzola pizza. Rice with a dab of wasabi, a piece of trotter on top, one mouthful

  ₩3,000 in both a May and a July 2025 post; one says eight pieces. Of the two who ordered it, one found the pairing better than she expected; the other records the price and says nothing about the taste

• 날치알주먹밥2 ate it
  nalchial jumeokbap₩5,000

  Rice rolled by hand with flying-fish roe. Two writers say plainly: order it

  ₩5,000, per a July 2025 post. Both writers ordered them because the trotter alone left them wanting rice; one pairs them with the stew and thinks the match a good one

• 통영어리굴젓named in 3
  Tongyeong eori-guljeot₩6,000

  Another of the shop's **three recommended pairings — and nobody ordered it.** All three writers copied it off the menu board

  ₩6,000, per a July 2025 post, described as a salty, savoury little extra — **which is the wording on the shop's own card.** All we can count is that it exists on the menu

To drink

• 소주2 ate it
  soju₩5,000

  **Drink runs through these posts.** One writer has never once come here and not ordered soju; another blames the free tofu stew for the bottle. The place opens in the afternoon and runs to one in the morning

  ₩5,000, and a June 2025 post notes that **beer costs the same.** Two writers drank it happily with the smoke of the meat. **Four others had driven and did not drink**

• 생맥주1 ate it
  saeng-maekju₩5,000

  One writer notes it comes in a 300ml glass and found that the right size for a drink with the meal rather than a session

  ₩5,000, the same as the soju, per a June 2025 post. Only one person records drinking it. Another writes about watching sport here over beer and trotter — **without saying she had any**

• 콜라1 ate it
  cola₩2,000

  Sold in a 500ml bottle. **This is the only post in which anyone orders something other than alcohol or water**

  ₩2,000, per an October 2025 post; the same writer also ordered a bottle of soju. Worth adding that two posts note the water on the table is not water but hovenia tea — one of them cheerfully reckoning it cancels out the drinking

Parking

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

Parking is tight. Two writers put the space behind the building at three or four cars, and a June 2025 post states flatly that there is no dedicated car park and that you will probably end up at the kerb. On the other hand, two mention a large free public car park diagonally behind, and one writer used it. Four came by car — and three of those four note that this is why they did not drink, which matters at a place that stays open until two.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Nobody says what floor the restaurant is on. The address is unit 105 in a commercial block, and writers describe a clear sign on a wide frontage and a standing board by the door, which reads like something you see from the street — but no post mentions stairs, up or down. One mention of a basement refers to the building's parking. The unit number suggests the ground floor, but that is our inference, and we will not write an inference down as a fact.

Not one writer says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words for step, threshold and ramp appear nowhere in the thirteen posts. Three mention high chairs, so children do come — but none of those three brought a pushchair through the door. It is unit 105 in a commercial block and ten posts call the room itself spacious, yet nobody describes the entrance. One thing worth flagging: the toilet is out in the building, and nobody describes that walk either. We will not say it works and we will not say it does not.

The toilet is not inside the restaurant but in the building. A July 2025 writer puts it plainly: you go out of the door and it is along from there. A June 2025 post confirms that men's and women's are separate. That is the whole of what we know — nobody says whether it is clean, whether it locks, or how far it is. The same June post also records that pets are not allowed and that there are high chairs; two other writers saw the high chairs for themselves.

No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 disclosing payment1 / 131 of 13 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves1 / 131 of 13 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way11 / 1311 of 13 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 posts we gathered, 17 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

What we do not know

• Seventeen of the thirty posts were set aside; every number on this page comes from the remaining thirteen. Fourteen of them went up within twelve days of each other in June 2025, carrying the same twelve hashtags in the same order, character for character. Not one of the fourteen names a price, and not one says what was ordered. The bodies recycle the same lines: the 500-degree oven, crisp outside and moist within, the television appearance, the big screen. Two were not cleaned up properly — one carries the subheading 'The persona's vivid experience' followed by 'As a man in my thirties'; another leaves the English word 'decor' sitting in the Korean sentence. The other three appeared within three days of each other in April 2025, a fortnight after the place opened, and two of them still show a widget reading 'visitor reviews: 3' — articles about a restaurant celebrities rave about, written when three customers had said anything at all. Not one of the seventeen discloses payment. We set them aside all the same, because none of them reads as written by someone who ate here.
• Nobody writes about getting here without a car. No bus, no taxi, nobody on foot, in any of the thirteen posts. Several say it is easy to reach, being beside the arts-centre junction — but that is either about driving or about where the building is, not about public transport. Four came by car. The place trades until two in the morning and not one person writes about how they got home.
• Two posts give different prices for the medium oven-roast trotter — ₩45,000 on 6 July 2025 and ₩43,000 on 9 July. Three days is short for a price change, so one of them is probably a slip, but we cannot tell which and have listed both. No post since has priced the dish, so we do not know what it costs now. The other prices do not contradict each other: ₩53,000 for the whole roast, ₩48,000 or ₩63,000 for the half-and-half depending on the pairing, ₩3,000 for the roe sushi, ₩5,000 for the rice balls, ₩6,000 to add the pizza, ₩5,000 each for soju and beer. All of them are 2025 figures; not one post from 2026 names a price.

Sources (13)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 당진 맛집 족발신선생 화덕족발 맛집｜막국수 짬뽕순두부 서비스까지 2026-09-07 · 혜만두입니당 · via Daum
2. [당진] 화덕 족발 맛집 '족발신성생 충남당진점', 족발,보쌈 2026-03-18 · CloNe 일상 이야기 · via Daum
3. 당진 문예의전당 족발신선생 화덕족발 2025-10-25 · 잘 먹고 잘 사는 기록 · via Daum
4. 당진읍내동 ‘족발 신선생’ 찐후기 2025-10-11 · 3n살 일기장
5. 당진 읍내동회식장소 추천, 화덕에서 구운 족발신선생 2025-07-11 · 미나미나탄
6. 당진 읍내동술집 화덕 족발 맛집 족발신선생 충남당진점 2025-07-09 · 먹기 위해 여행하는 쯔응이
7. 당진족발맛집 문예의전당 단체회식 족발신선생 신규오픈 2025-07-06 · 자유로운 개구리 , 지구에 착륙하다 !
8. 당진단체회식 당진읍내동맛집 족발신선생 추천 2025-07-01 · 행복한 둥이네
9. 당진 읍내동맛집 족발신선생 방문후기 2025-06-11 · nㅏ임이의 해방일지
10. 당진읍내동회식 맛집 찾는다면? 족발신선생 당진점 2025-06-06 · 맛집 파기 여행⭐
11. [당진족발맛집] 5. 5주 차. 족발 신선생 충남 당진 점 후기 2025-06-01 · ⸜(๑’ᵕ’๑)⸝*
12. 충남당진맛집 족발신선생 화덕통구이 쟁반국수 후기 2025-05-08 · 오니로그, ✨
13. ［충남］당진읍내동맛집 족발신선생 충남 당진점 500℃ 천연 화산석.... 2025-05-05 · 혜성부부 인생 소풍길

Of 183 candidate posts we opened 68 and kept 13 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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