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Hangari-bossam Taean-jeom

항아리보쌈 태안점 A bossam house behind Taean County Hall where the pork goes into the pot six times a day and the ₩14,000 lunch set brings noodles, soup and a pot of sticky rice with it.

Data as of · Published ·

Hangari Bossam Taean sits in the lane directly behind Taean County Hall, five or six minutes' walk from the bus terminal. You leave your shoes at the door; there are both chairs and floor seating, and three private rooms, which twenty-two writers mention. Bossam runs ₩35,000 to ₩45,000 by size, and the lunch set — pork, noodles, a pot of sticky rice and doenjang soup — is ₩14,000 a head; fifteen of the writers ordered it. Not one of the twenty-nine reports the porky smell that bossam is judged on. A board at the entrance lists the times the pork comes out of the pot, and four writers timed their arrival by it. There is no car park; people leave cars on the lane or at the county hall. We read 29 posts, nine of which declare that they were paid for.

족발·보쌈
Jokbal braised pig's trotter / boiled porkAn AI drawing of Jokbal as a dish. Not a photograph of this shop, and not drawn from this shop's menu. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

The basics

Address충청남도 태안군 태안읍 군청8길 19
19 Guncheong 8-gil, Taean-eup, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do
Phone041-675-0023
Typical spend₩35,000 – ₩52,000
Floor area277 m²
StatusIn business

6 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 18 posts: 9 wrote Daily 10:00–22:00.

OpenDaily11:00–21:00 4 of 18 posts last seen 2026-09
OpenDaily11:00–22:00 5 of 18 posts last seen 2026-08
OpenDaily10:00–22:00 9 of 18 posts last seen 2026-06
ClosedWednesday 11 of 13 posts last seen 2026-09

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 sets it apart

  1. Not one of the twenty-nine writers reports the porky smell, and twenty-six say so explicitly — an unusual degree of agreement for a bossam house. Two explanations recur. The first is that the pork is boiled in small batches through the day: a board at the door gives the times, and one writer copied down six of them, two at lunch and four through the evening. Four writers timed their visit to catch a fresh pot. The second is the recipe, which fifteen posts attribute to Park Gyeong-gyu, named "master of bossam" on the SBS programme *Master of Living*.
  2. Twenty-two writers say the same thing about the price — it is cheap — and nobody says otherwise; one gives it three stars and calls it ordinary. The agreement centres on the lunch set: ₩14,000 for pork, noodles, a pot of sticky rice, soup and the full spread of side dishes. One writer observes that the side dishes alone would shame most set-meal houses; two wonder aloud how the kitchen makes anything on it. There is a trace of a rise: an August 2025 writer noted that the board still said ₩13,000 but that the price had gone up, and two 2025 posts give only "just over ten thousand". Two other posts saying ₩13,000 are not quoting an old price — that is the squid version of the same set, a thousand won cheaper.
  3. Twenty-two writers mention the private rooms, two of them counting three. What the restaurant does for this small county town is in that number: office lunches, company dinners, family gatherings — one party arrived six-strong from the same workplace and ordered six lunch sets. Twenty-three call the room large, and eight note the floor seating, usually in the same breath as bringing a very young child. Nobody reports waiting for a table. Three say the opposite: first customers of the day, a slack weekend, a quiet early lunch.
  4. Twenty writers say the portions are generous and one says they are not — and the one is the most useful. Two adults and a child ate the small bossam and concluded plainly that it ran out, and that two people ordering pork alone should take the medium. A couple who ordered the same small set were startled by how full the dish arrived, and a party of three who took the medium found it comfortably enough. Read together the three give you the rule: small for two, medium for three. Both writers who paid ₩15,000 for extra meat report that they need not have bothered.
  5. Nine writers record that a receipt review earns you a drink. One declined hers — already too full, and driving — which suggests you have to ask. A claw machine by the door runs a second promotion, and one writer copied what is in it: discount vouchers, and money off soju, beer and soft drinks. Another was simply glad of something to keep children busy. Four note that the local currency vouchers, Zeropay and the fuel-subsidy vouchers are all accepted.
  6. Six writers describe arriving without a car. Two time the walk from the bus terminal — six minutes and five minutes, which agree. The other four give only a direction: behind the terminal, up the hill from it. One writer calls the place easy to reach by public transport, but no post names a bus or a stop. Ten writers use the county hall across the way as the landmark.

What 29 bloggers said

We read all 29 in full. The most common claims are “No gamey smell” (26) and “Roomy” (23).

What they liked

No gamey smell26 of 29 posts
Roomy23 of 29 posts
Not expensive22 of 29 posts
Large portions20 of 29 posts
Would return13 of 29 posts
Clean13 of 29 posts
Not greasy8 of 29 posts
Friendly staff5 of 29 posts
No wait3 of 29 posts
Quiet1 of 29 posts
Sweet1 of 29 posts

Things you can check on site

Private room22 of 29 posts
Chef credentials15 of 29 posts
Review event9 of 29 posts
Floor seating8 of 29 posts
Independent, not a chain6 of 29 posts — saying it is not
Reachable by transit6 of 29 posts
Cooked to order5 of 29 posts
Shoes off at the door4 of 29 posts
Local currency accepted4 of 29 posts
Takeout4 of 29 posts
Takes reservations4 of 29 posts
High chairs2 of 29 posts
Outdoor terrace seating3 of 29 posts
Arcade machine3 of 29 posts
A minimum number of portions on the first order2 of 29 posts
Large windows1 of 29 posts
Origin labelling posted1 of 29 posts
Resident dog or cat1 of 29 posts

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

The most ordered dish is bossam (보쌈) — 26 of 29 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

12 posts say you can park; 3 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Posts saying you can park12 of 29 posts
Posts saying you cannot3 of 29 posts

There is no car park, and the fifteen writers who discuss parking are not disagreeing. Three say it outright — no lot; use the lane out front or the county hall's own spaces. The other twelve simply record where they left the car: the verge, the alley, the road in front, the public lot nearby. Nobody reports difficulty. One arrived at Sunday lunchtime and parked without fuss; another guesses that being a residential lane, it is not ticketed — a guess no other post confirms. What the street is like on a weekday lunchtime, outside a county hall, nobody says. Six writers mention the office workers who fill the place at noon, but none of them was one of the drivers.

Who came, and with whom

Came with children9 of 29 posts
Family visit7 of 29 posts
With a friend5 of 29 posts
Group visit2 of 29 posts
Date1 of 29 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Hangari-bossam Taean-jeom is

Getting inside

Second flooryes 0 · no 1 (of 29 posts read)

Only one post says anything about floors: that the building runs long and low on a single storey. A second notes that the restaurant occupies the whole building. Whether there is an upstairs, whether there are steps, the other twenty-seven posts do not say. Twenty-three call it spacious without saying across how many levels. A seat count does appear — about 130 — but in the advertising copy we excluded, not in a visit; it does not contradict the three rooms and the long hall that others describe.

Nobody looked at the threshold. There is a particular reason to want that here: four writers record that you take your shoes off at the door. One adds that indoor slippers are laid out; another likes it for coming with a child. A shoes-off dining room usually means a raised floor, and not one post says whether there is a step up or not. Whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in, nobody says at all. Eight writers note floor seating, five that there are ordinary tables as well.

Nobody looked at the toilets. They appear in exactly one of the twenty-nine posts, and there only inside a block copied wholesale from the shop's Naver listing — booking, groups, parking, takeaway, delivery, wifi, separate men's and women's. Copying is not seeing, so we did not count it. Whether they are inside the building or out, whether the men's and women's are in fact separate, whether they are clean: we do not know. Thirteen writers call the place clean, but every one of them is talking about the dining room and the table.

No one mentioned: 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 disclosing payment10 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way18 of 29 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 posts we gathered, 1 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

04050809101103040506070809
Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-041
2025-051
2025-081
2025-091
2025-101
2025-112
2026-031
2026-042
2026-053
2026-065
2026-072
2026-086
2026-093

What we do not know

  • Nobody waited for a table. Three found the room quiet — first customers of the day, a slack weekend, an early lunch. Four found it busy, and all four sat down. But three of them pass on, rather than witness, the claim that weekday lunchtimes fill up: locals fill every table, the county hall staff come in at noon. Hearing is not seeing — we have no account from anyone who went at a weekday lunch. One writer notes there is no afternoon break.
  • Nine of the twenty-nine posts declare that they were paid for — eight open with the Korean ad tag, one states at the head that it was written for a fee, and one buries the disclosure in its hashtags. Eight of the nine appear to come from one hand. Three of the blog addresses differ only by a trailing number, and all eight share a template: the same greeting, the same two credentials in the same order, the same punctuation in the same places. We kept them in the count anyway. Each describes a different day's side dishes — the vegetables rotate, and the eight lists do not match — each came with different company, and they split on which noodles they chose. A shared template is not grounds for exclusion when there is a record of eating. But twenty-nine posts are not twenty-nine people.
  • One of the thirty is not a visit at all. It opens with an "About Us", runs through a checklist of selling points and lists seventeen dishes, and never once says what was eaten. The giveaway is at the foot: its hashtags are for Dangjin, a different city — a template reused and imperfectly scrubbed. Its phone number and seat count do not contradict anything else we have, but an account of no visit does not go into the denominator. A second post carries a scraped Naver review-count widget still embedded in the text; that one is a real visit — it describes the outdoor tables, the shoes-off entrance, even the music — so we dropped the line and kept the post.
  • There are two phone numbers. Thirteen posts give 0507-1362-0023; four posts and the business register give 041-675-0023. The 0507 prefix is a masking service, so these need not be a contradiction — they may be two doors to the same shop. We publish the registered landline and record the 0507 number here; which one to dial, we have not established. No single post gives both.
  • Who exactly the television title belongs to is not settled. Fifteen posts raise it. Eight say the shop uses the master's recipe; one calls it the master's own restaurant; the remaining six only report the sign at the door. Hangari Bossam is a chain, which six writers note — one ate at the Daejeon branch regularly, another has been to others elsewhere. So whether the man cooks here, or the branch simply carries a name the company earned, we cannot tell you. Nor do the writers agree on whether the branches match: one finds the side dishes here better than at other Hangari Bossams she has visited, another says they are all much the same. Five mention the county's model-restaurant designation, one a food-safety certification, one that pest control is contracted out.
  • Two posts flatly contradict each other about high chairs. A September 2026 writer lists them among the seating and adds that her child was given proper toddler tableware unprompted; a June 2026 writer confirms chairs and disposable bibs at the side of the room. But a post from 1 September 2026 states in its information block: no high chairs — written three days apart from the first. We cannot say which is right. Nine writers came with children, and only three of them mention the chairs at all. One recommends adding the rice balls for a child too young for chilli kimchi or dressed noodles.
  • There are seats outside, and only three writers mention them — one imagining coffee there on a fine day, one noting the space exists, one making it part of her routine: eat, then sit out with a coffee. Whether that coffee is paid for, nobody says. Three writers describe a coffee machine indoors, one calling it a vending machine she never leaves without using, and not one of them mentions a price. How many seats there are, and whether they are covered, we also do not know.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 227 candidate posts we opened 67 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.