**Bunsik (Korean snacks)** snack-bar foodAn AI drawing of Bunsik (Korean snacks) as a dish. Not a photograph of this shop, and not drawn from this shop's menu. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

Raw fishSnack barJapanese

ilkwang

Name: ilkwang
Address: 대전광역시 중구 중앙로122번길 20, 2층 (대흥동), 중구, 대전광역시, 34912, KR
Telephone: 0507-1337-5184

일광 Ilgwang Ilgwang is an everyday Korean word for daylight; the shop writes its name only in Korean letters and romanises itself 'ilkwang' on Instagram.

Compiled from 26 blog posts read in fullSources →

Ilkwang is an izakaya on the first floor above a charcoal-grill restaurant in the Daeheung-dong eating lanes of Daejeon. Sashimi is the headline, but what people actually order is the salted gimbap — rice rolls seasoned with salt and sesame oil, topped with aged flounder or monkfish liver, which you stack yourself. Most seats face the kitchen counter or the window; a separate table becomes a private room when its doors are shut. What draws people here is drink you cannot easily find in Daejeon: purple-yam beer, matcha beer, chocolate beer, and sake set as jelly in the shape of the city's cartoon mascot. A dish runs roughly ₩20,000 to ₩46,000. It opens at five in the evening and closes at one in the morning, two on Fridays and Saturdays. Five minutes' walk from Jungangno station and from the Sungsimdang bakery. We read posts from February to September 2026.

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

Location & hours

Address대전광역시 중구 중앙로122번길 20, 2층 (대흥동)20 Jungang-ro 122beon-gil, Jung-gu, Daejeon
Phone0507-1337-5184
Typical spend₩20,000 – ₩46,000
From the station11 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Floor areaFloor area 76 m² · Status In business

When it opens

Of 22 posts: 21 wrote 17:00–01:00, 19 wrote Friday 17:00–02:00, 19 wrote Saturday 17:00–02:00.

When it opens
No day given	17:00–01:00	21 of 22 posts
Friday	17:00–02:00
Saturday	17:00–02:00
Break	없음	2 of 2 posts
Last order	00:00	6 of 7 posts
Last order	Friday 01:00	5 of 7 posts
Last order	Saturday 01:00	5 of 7 posts
Closed	Monday	19 of 20 posts

Rows without a count: 19 of 22 posts.

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

Where you sit decides what the evening is. Of the twenty-four posts that describe the room, nineteen say it is not counter-only: the bar wrapping the kitchen is the largest part, there is a row facing the window, and two or three four-tops can be closed off with partitions or doors. Six writers mention that one table shuts into a private room, and one was told it holds up to ten. Five call the place quiet, all for the same reason — you can hear each other. Four note that bags go under or inside the bar stools, and three that there are coat hooks. Four chose the counter specifically to watch the cooking.
Two things arrive free when you sit down. Of the twenty-one posts that address it, eighteen got a starter and almost all of them describe the same thing: sliced tomato under sugar — one adds olive oil and pepper, another watched the sugar blowtorched. One writer who says she never eats tomatoes wanted to go and buy some; another asked for two refills. Seven note that the water is barley tea rather than plain water. In late March and April 2026 it was not tomato: two writers were given egg salad instead, one of them as boiled egg and sauce in a small mortar to mash herself. And one writer got nothing at all — "other reviews mention a starter, but we didn't get one" (September 2026).
Write a receipt review and a dessert follows. Eleven posts mention the offer: you pick either kaymak or a crème brûlée ice cream. Eight writers took it — five kaymak, four brûlée, one both. The kaymak comes on toasted bread with honey; the brûlée has a sugar crust you crack with a spoon. Only one person ever paid for either (₩5,000, February 2026). One writer urges you to save room; another was too full of rich food to bother.
They put the baseball on. Six posts mention a large screen or a projector, and four of them found a game playing — one saw other tables watching over their drinks, another thought it the right place to come on a night that matters. This is a baseball town. One writer, less luckily, got a cooking channel.

1 more

You walk here. All eleven posts that give directions give them on foot: four or five minutes from Jungangno station (two specify exit 4), and five minutes from the main Sungsimdang bakery, which five writers use as the landmark. Two suggest making it a stop after the bakery. One places it next door to a bar called Yolla Tango, another across from Pie Garden.

What 26 bloggers said

8/26Most ordered
gwangeo sogeum gimbap

12/26Most-said good thing
Would return

2/26Posts disclosing payment

We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Would return” (12) and “Quiet” (5).

What they liked

Would return12 of 26 posts

Quiet5 of 26 posts

Friendly staff4 of 26 posts

No wait3 of 26 posts

Clean2 of 26 posts

Crispy batter3 of 26 posts

Returning customer2 of 26 posts

What they struggled with

Salty / strongly seasoned1 of 26 posts

Heavy / greasy1 of 26 posts

Food comes slowly1 of 26 posts

Where they disagree

Expensive	yes 4 · no 3
Large portions	yes 5 · no 2

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

The most ordered dish is gwangeo sogeum gimbap (광어 소금김밥) — 8 of 26 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

광어 소금김밥8 ate it
gwangeo sogeum gimbap₩28,000
The single most-ordered thing here. Salted, sesame-oiled gimbap comes with aged flounder sashimi on top, plus old kimchi, radish sprouts, chilli, pickled ginger and fresh wasabi, and **you stack your own mouthful**. Several writers say they came because a singer praised the combination on YouTube. Three say it tastes nothing like sushi.
Five writers give a price, between February and September 2026, and **all say ₩28,000**. One counted ten pieces of gimbap against seven slices of fish and had to tear the fish to make it stretch.
안키모 소금김밥7 ate it
ankimo sogeum gimbap₩20,000
The same salted gimbap with **ankimo (monkfish liver)** instead of flounder. Four writers describe the liver piled up in a heap — one says there is more liver than rice. Another notes that the pickled ginger and wasabi are refilled on request.
Four writers, May to July 2026, all say ₩20,000 — ₩8,000 less than the flounder version.
일광 스키야키4 ate it
Ilkwang sukiyaki₩28,000
A soy-based hot pot of beef, tofu, cabbage, bok choy and four or five kinds of mushroom, brought to the table **on its own burner**. Three writers describe simmering it for about ten minutes and dipping into raw beaten egg. One finished by adding udon noodles to the broth.
Three writers, February and August 2026, all say ₩28,000.
시마아지 사시미3 ate it
shimaaji sashimi₩46,000
Striped jack sashimi — the dearest thing we read about here, and the one writers disagree on. One found it sweet and nutty the longer she chewed; another said he would recommend it if it were not for the price; a third, eating it in July, said plainly that he would not.
Three writers, May and July 2026, all say ₩46,000.
노리 사시미 (제철 모듬)3 ate it
nori sashimi₩43,000
A seasonal sashimi platter whose line-up changes. One writer lists flounder, sea bream, mullet, squid, salmon and yellowtail; another got sea urchin too. Two note that the fish is aged and therefore soft, and one was told to dip the white fish in the yellow garlic sauce.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩43,000 in February 2026. **One person's word is not a confirmation.**

20 more dishes

아조씨 스테이크3 ate it
ajossi steak₩25,000
A copy of the steak the fighter Choo Sung-hoon cooks on YouTube — one writer says the butter and the sweetcorn are identical. It comes with two bowls of white rice. One warns that pouring all the sauce over it makes the dish salty; dip instead.
Two writers, March and May 2026, both say ₩25,000.
뇨끼2 ate it
nyokki₩22,000
Potato gnocchi in cream sauce, with toasted bread. Both writers who ordered it called it the best thing they ate that night — one said it beat what she gets in pasta restaurants.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩22,000 in May 2026.
토마토 해산물 파스타2 ate it
tomato haesanmul pasta₩20,000
One writer notes you can choose the heat level — she asked for it mild. She found enough seafood in it and liked the texture of the pasta.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩20,000 in May 2026, the cheapest full dish we read about here.
백사자에탕 (백골뱅이탕)2 ate it
baek-golbaengi-tang
A hot pot of white whelk. One writer says peperoncino gives it a kick; another reports the whelk comes straight from Guryongpo on the east coast. Both treat the broth as something to drink soju with.
**No writer gives a price.**
트러플 치즈 감자전2 ate it
truffle cheese gamjajeon₩21,000
A potato pancake with an egg yolk inside that runs when you cut it. Both writers say the truffle is strong enough to be the real thing; one reports her companion calling it the best potato pancake he had had in a long while.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩21,000 in March 2026.

문어 가라아게3 ate it
muneo karaage₩10,000
All three writers say the same thing: thin batter, thick octopus — bouncy rather than chewy, and unusually plump. It comes with a sweet sauce or onion-soy rather than plain soy.
Two writers, February and June 2026, both say ₩10,000. Counted as a side, so it does not drag down the meal-price range.
멜론 프로슈토2 ate it
melon prosciutto₩13,000
Melon with prosciutto and cheese, finished with pepper. One writer was mildly disappointed it was not jamón; another found it went with the matcha beer but not with the flounder gimbap.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩13,000 in February 2026.
트러플 감자튀김2 ate it
truffle gamja-twigim₩6,000
Topped with cheese and parsley — one writer says it is seasoned enough to eat without ketchup. Both call the portion generous.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩6,000 in March 2026. It is the lowest number we read, but it is a side.
샤퀴테리칩스1 ate it
charcuterie chips
Crisps piled with rocket, ham, cheese, olives and tomato. The one writer who ordered it says they load it up generously and that you keep reaching for it even when full.
**No price, and only one person wrote about eating it.**

카이막5 ate it
kaimak
Toasted bread with kaymak and honey. It is the other half of the receipt-review choice, so nobody paid for it. Writers compare it to cream cheese and call it the right thing after drinking.
**No price anywhere** — all five got it free, through the review event or from the owner.
크림뷔릴레 아이스크림4 ate it
cream brulee ice cream₩5,000
**Write a receipt review and you get this or the kaymak free** — several writers did. A sugar crust you crack with a spoon over vanilla ice cream; the verdicts run from "fine" to "a good sweet full stop".
Only one writer gives a price — ₩5,000 in February 2026. The others got it free through the review event.

말차 맥주7 ate it
malcha beer₩8,000
The other beer that brings people here. Six of the seven who drank it liked it — bitter-sweet, or "I thought why bother, then got hooked" — while one found the switch from matcha latte to beer mid-sip disconcerting. One writer says it does not go with raw fish.
Two writers, both February 2026, say ₩8,000. One menu transcription lists a separate "premium" matcha beer, but nobody gives its price.
일광 하이볼5 ate it
Ilkwang highball₩8,000
The house highball. Writers do not agree on what is in it — one tastes omija berry, another orange syrup with herbs, a third just calls it sweet and easy. Two recommend it to people who do not like the taste of alcohol.
Four writers, February to August 2026, all say ₩8,000.
우베 맥주4 ate it
ube beer₩9,000
Purple beer made with Filipino ube (purple yam) powder stirred into Kirin Ichiban. Four writers say it is why they came — from an Instagram reel, or because they heard it is the only place in Daejeon that pours it. Opinion splits: three find it sweet and soft enough for non-drinkers, one finds it cloying and wrong with beer. Also sold as a highball at the same price.
Two writers, March and May 2026, both say ₩9,000.
토마토 맥주4 ate it
tomato beer₩8,000
Three writers say it is closer to tomato juice than beer — "you forget there is beer in it". Two who do not like beer ordered it and were happy; one notes the glass is much bigger than expected.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩8,000 in February 2026.
소주3 ate it
soju₩5,000
One menu transcription lists five brands of soju. Two writers drank it mixed with beer.
Two writers, both May 2026, say ₩5,000.
딸기(이치고) 하이볼3 ate it
ttalgi highball₩8,000
One writer finds the strawberry gentle rather than loud; another notes that the house highball is the sweeter of the two.
Two writers, both May 2026, say ₩8,000.
꿈돌이 사케젤리2 ate it
Kkumdori sake jelly₩10,000
Sake set as jelly in the shape of Kkumdori, Daejeon's civic mascot, floated in soda with a face drawn on in chocolate. You eat it by the spoonful rather than drink it; the sweetness comes first and the sake at the end. Four writers said they wanted to try it and then ordered something else.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩10,000 in May 2026.
초콜릿 맥주2 ate it
chocolate beer
Two writers say you have to stir the chocolate up off the bottom. It divides people sharply: at one table of three, two liked it and one did not, and another writer expected sweetness and got beer.
**No writer gives a price.**
에비스 생맥주2 ate it
Ebisu draft₩10,000
Two writers say draught Ebisu is hard to find. One calls ₩10,000 a glass a little steep but the pour smooth and the head generous.
Only one writer gives a price — ₩10,000 in July 2026.

Parking

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

Posts saying you cannot	1 of 26 posts

A lot is written about parking and almost none of it is first-hand. "No car park of its own — use a paid lot or public transport" appears in more than ten of the boilerplate info blocks at the top of these posts, but only one writer actually parked: at the Urideul Park public car park, in May 2026. The rest do not even say whether they drove. The copied lines also contradict each other — one says you can park in the lane by the building, another that the white-lined kerb spaces are usable, most simply say no parking. If you are driving, do not take this page's word for it.

Who came, and with whom

With a friend 7 of 26 posts
Date 4 of 26 posts
Group visit 2 of 26 posts
Came by car 1 of 26 posts

Where it is

From the station

You walk here. All eleven posts that give directions give them on foot: four or five minutes from Jungangno station (two specify exit 4), and five minutes from the main Sungsimdang bakery, which five writers use as the landmark. Two suggest making it a stop after the bakery. One places it next door to a bar called Yolla Tango, another across from Pie Garden.

Getting inside

Second floor	21 of 26 posts
Toilet inside	yes 0 · no 7 (of 26 posts read)
Separate restrooms	yes 0 · no 3 (of 26 posts read)

The way to find it is to find the meat restaurant underneath it first. Twenty-one posts say the izakaya is up on the first floor, and sixteen of those give the ground-floor grill house as the landmark. One writer walked straight past and only saw it when she looked up; two others say it is easy to miss. Three, though, found the big black sign obvious. Two mention that the menu is posted at the bottom of the stairs, so you can read it before you climb.

Nobody checked with their own eyes whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. In twenty-six posts no one mentions a ramp, a lip or a step, and not one mentions a lift. All we can read is that the place is up one floor and you take the stairs — three writers describe climbing them. One post does state "no wheelchair or pushchair access, step present", but it sits in a copied block of amenity flags alongside pets, outside food, corkage and online booking, so we could not count it as something that writer saw. This is not a "no" — it is us not knowing.

The lavatory is not inside the shop. All seven posts that mention it say the same: it is a shared building lavatory on the half-landing between the ground floor and the first. Three add that it is unisex and locked with a code, and one notes the code is posted inside the izakaya. Nobody says there are separate men's and women's rooms, and nobody says anything about whether it is clean or cramped.

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 disclosing payment2 of 26 posts
Posts saying they paid themselves9 of 26 posts
Posts saying nothing either way15 of 26 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 27 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

0203040506070809

Month by month

Month	Posts
2026-02	5
2026-03	3
2026-04	1
2026-05	6
2026-06	4
2026-07	2
2026-08	2
2026-09	3

What we do not know

All three writers who address the queue say there wasn't one — and all three come with conditions. One deliberately picked a Tuesday at seven because she had heard weekends are brutal (May 2026); one arrived to a full room, missed the window seats and got lucky with a spot at the bar (March 2026); one walked in without booking and was given a window seat (February 2026). A fourth watched the room fill within half an hour of sitting down. Not one of these posts is from a weekend evening. Booking is possible through Naver and CatchTable.
Two posts disagree about the hours. Twenty say the shop closes on Mondays; one says Tuesdays (February 2026), and one lists Monday among the opening days (March 2026). We have left both as we read them. One writer adds that the closing day can change, so ring before you go. Six give a last-order time as a clock time; three give it only as a rule — one hour before closing, so midnight on ordinary nights and one in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays. Two writers state there is no afternoon break; the rest simply do not say, which is not the same as saying there isn't one.
Two posts declare they were comped: one carries a line at the very bottom saying it was written as a selected blogger review through an agency, and one declares it only with a single hashtag after the text. Nine writers state they paid themselves, two of them posting the receipt or the booking screen. Two more use a phrase that gives us pause — "a good opportunity came up, so I went" (September 2026) and "a good chance came along" (June 2026). With no disclosure we did not count them as sponsored. One post carries no prices at all, leaves unrendered markdown asterisks in the text, and repeats hearsay about a celebrity's endorsement; we kept it in, because its account of mashing the free starter in a mortar matches another post from the same weeks.
This page is not twenty-six people. Of the twenty-eight confirmed posts, one was not about this shop at all — a Busan and Gimhae diary in which "Ilkwang" means a beach and a raw-fish restaurant two hundred kilometres away; our Daejeon izakaya never appears. Another was the same writer's same visit, posted to two platforms, so we dropped the second copy. That leaves twenty-six. Twenty-six posts is still not twenty-six people: we did not check whether any blog appears twice.

Sources (26)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

충청도에 꿀 발랐어 2026-09-26 · 쓰레기모음집 · via Daum
성심당 근처 술집 찾는다면? 분위기 좋은 대흥동 이자카야 일광 2026-09-15 · 조각조각 일상
[대전 중앙로역 맛집] 일광 | 대흥동 분위기 좋은 이자카야, 말차 우.... 2026-09-10 · hey_daily
[대전/일광] 토마토부터 말차, 초콜릿까지, 이런 맥주 처음이야 2026-08-24 · 권길동이 간다
대전 중구 대흥동술집 ㅣ 일광 ㅣ스키야키 솔직후기 2026-08-14 · h2zo0
요즘 핫한 안주 다 모인 대전 대흥동 이자카야, 일광 내돈내산 2026-07-26 · 바나나먹고 다시 생각해
[대전 대흥동 술집] 일광 이자카야 시마아지 사시미 & 안키모 소금김.... 2026-07-24 · 동그라미님의 블로그
[식당] 대전 대흥동 일광 분위기 좋은 이자카야를 가고 싶을때 2026-06-24 · ESH/SHE/HSE : 환경안전보건 기지국
대전 대흥동 술집 일광 메뉴 꿈돌이 젤리사케 초콜렛맥주 2026-06-21 · 밈미의 냠냠여행
종강이다 이제 대학생학대 멈춰라 2026-06-19 · tada · via Daum
대전 대흥동이자카야 일광 후기 2026-06-09 · 콩순 ☆彡
대전 대흥동 이자카야 일광 | 대전 대흥동 술집 2026-05-28 · • dieun’s log •
[대전 술집추천] 일광 :: 대흥동 안주가 맛있는 분위기 좋은 이자카.... 2026-05-22 · Hermosa Nuestra Vida
대전 대흥동술집 대흥동이자카야ㅣ일광 2026-05-16 · 히야로그〰️ღ
[대전 대흥동 술집] 일광 : 우베 맥주와 꿈돌이 사케 젤리 2026-05-12 · 미르몽의 하루
대전 대흥동 술집 대전 우베맥주 술집 일광 2026-05-06 · 나의 모든 일상 올리기✨~
대전 대흥동 이자카야 일광, 맥주 맛집 찾으면 여기 2026-05-04 · 경마니
대전 대흥동에서 찾은 분위기 맛집, '일광(佚光)' 솔직 방문 후기! ✨ 2026-04-12 · 먹고자의 꿀팁 정보
대전 대흥동 분위기 좋은 이자카야 일광 , 아조씨 스테이크, 트러플 .... 2026-03-28 · 코씨일기장 •ᴗ•
[내돈내산] 일광/대전 대흥동 | 솔직후기, 메뉴, 영업시간, 웨이팅, .... 2026-03-25 · 끄적이는 Daily
대전 대흥동 분위기 좋은 광어소금김밥 맛집 이자카야 : 일광 2026-03-13 · 붕어빵 공장장과 붕어빵
대흥동 분위기 좋은 이자카야 일광 2026-02-26 · 파카의 신혼일기
대전 대흥동 술집 - 일광 2026-02-23 · 우당탕탕
대전 대흥동 이자카야 : 일광 스키야키 광어소금김밥 후기 2026-02-16 · 뚜비의 끄적끄적
[대전 중구 대흥동 술집] 일광 I 대흥동이자카야, 광어소금김밥, 방.... 2026-02-16 · 용용이·ࡇ·
말차맥주와 맛도리 안주 + 분위기까지 좋은 대전 대흥동 이자카야 .... 2026-02-05 · 경송이의 식사일기

We opened all 332 candidate posts and kept 26 as evidence.