Gilpost · Jeongseon-gun, Jeongseon-eup

Jeongseon Myeonok

정선면옥 A small noodle house by the Arirang market in Jeongseon whose jang-kalguksu is built on soybean paste rather than chilli paste, with a seasonal board and a shoes-off room at the back.

Korean · Jeongseon-gun, Jeongseon-eup

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

Jeongseon Myeonok is a noodle house at 35 Bongyang 5-gil in Jeongseon-eup, in the middle of Bongyang-ri between the Arirang market and the county office. Its jang-kalguksu is built on soybean paste, not chilli paste — fourteen of the nineteen writers who ate here lead with that difference, and fifteen of them ordered it. It is 9,000 won, with potato, courgette and thinly sliced young cabbage in it, and four writers believe the noodles are cut in house. The board changes with the season: the cold buckwheat noodles run April to October, the dumpling dishes November to March, and only the jang-kalguksu is there all year (see below). Alongside are boiled pork at 40,000 won, a spring-onion pancake at 12,000 and grilled tofu at 12,000. It opens at 10:30 and closes at 20:00, but closes earlier when the food runs out — seven writers say so. The registered floor area is 50.87 m²: four or five tables of four in the hall, one for two, a shoes-off floor room at the back, and an annexe through the side door that opens on busy days. There is no car park and the toilet is outside the building (see below). It is a government-designated Baengnyeon Gage — a shop of at least thirty years in the same place — and has held Blue Ribbon listings for several years. We read nineteen posts, from March 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 12 posts: 8 wrote Daily 10:30–20:00, 4 wrote 10:30–20:00.

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.

What people order

The most ordered dish is jang-kalguksu (장칼국수) — 15 of 16 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

• 장칼국수15 ate it
  jang-kalguksu₩9,000

  **This is the axis of the place — all nineteen writers who ate here name it and fifteen ordered it.** Gangwon jang-kalguksu is normally built on chilli paste; **here it is built on soybean paste.** Fourteen writers lead with that difference, and several came expecting the red kind and were startled — one was disappointed to hear it was doenjang and then delighted by it. The broth gets described again and again as sitting between a soybean soup and a soybean stew, like something simmered a long time at home, and **it holds potato, courgette and thinly sliced young cabbage.** Four writers think the noodles are cut in house, describing them as flat, wide and unevenly thick. **Two writers found it salty**, and both wanted rice with it. One notes that in Jeongseon the dish is also called gasugi

  Six writers between September 2025 and August 2026 all put it at 9,000 won, and the one itemised total (63,000 in August 2026) works out the same. **Five excluded TV-recap posts said 8,000; we did not use them — it looks like stale listing data.**

• 막국수7 ate it
  mak-guksu₩9,000

  A buckwheat cold noodle, and **the broth is dongchimi radish brine — six writers point it out**, one describing the sour edge of the radish and the absence of MSG. Cool and heavy with sesame, they say, and **one writer calls it the best mak-guksu in Gangwon and insists on the soup version here.** Cucumber comes on top; she adds you could ask for it without. **There is a dissenting side**: one writer, spoiled by the noodles in Goseong, found Jeongseon's buckwheat unremarkable, and another said it was a taste available anywhere. Apple vinegar sits on the table if you want more bite. **Sold April to October only.**

  Four writers, between July and December 2025, put it at 9,000 won.

• 비빔막국수7 ate it
  bibim mak-guksu₩9,000 · ₩10,000

  The dry, sauced version, and **the broth comes separately in a kettle — four writers say to pour it in and eat it halfway between dry and soup.** The garnish is lettuce, egg, cucumber and sesame, and one writer found squash in hers. Several describe the sauce as restrained, neither salty nor hot, but **one writer says the opposite** — vinegar hit her first and stayed, and she found the noodles overcooked and slack. **Sold April to October only.**

  Five writers — August, September and December 2025 and two in August 2026 — put it at 10,000 won. **A single June 2026 post said 9,000**; since that writer did not separately price the plain cold noodle (which is 9,000), it may be a slip, but we cannot check it, so both figures stay.

• 파전4 ate it
  pajeon₩12,000

  Four writers ordered it and **all four liked it — the only dish here nobody complains about.** One calls it the best spring-onion pancake of her life, crisp outside and soft within; another notes it is seasoned enough to eat without soy sauce. Two point out how much **plump squid** is in it, and three call it thick. **It can sell out** — a writer who went in June 2026 specifically for the pancake was told the ingredients had run out

  Three writers — August and December 2025 and August 2026 — put it at 12,000 won.

• 만두국2 ate it
  mandu-guk₩9,000

  **A winter dish, sold November to March.** The dumplings are kimchi dumplings, hand-made according to two writers — homely and plain, generously filled and yet not salty, in a clean broth. **One writer, fishing the dumplings out because the soup was too hot, wondered whether she should have ordered the drained version instead.** She had said at the start that she does not even like dumpling soup, and finished by saying she ate well

  Three writers, in September and December 2025, put it at 9,000 won.

• 건진만두2 ate it
  geonjin-mandu₩9,000

  **The soupless twin of the dumpling soup — boiled dumplings lifted out and dressed with sesame salt and perilla oil.** A winter dish, November to March, and **two writers had never heard the name before.** Both who ordered it say the same thing: chewier and smoother than dumplings usually are, fragrant from the oil, the wrappers visibly hand-rolled, with **crisp kimchi** in the filling. One counted ten for nine thousand won, noted they are small, and — since they cooled fast on a cold day — **dipped them in the jang-kalguksu broth**

  Two writers, September 2025 and January 2026, put it at 9,000 won; the second specified ten dumplings for that price.

• 제육1 ate it
  jeyuk₩40,000

  **Despite the name, this is not a red stir-fry — it is a whole slab of pork belly boiled and sliced.** In Jeongseon whole cuts of meat were set on ancestral tables, and the name comes from that. **At 40,000 won it is the dearest thing here, and only one of the nineteen ordered it.** What she wrote is all we know: served over the brazier, so chewier than usual boiled pork, good with the **squid jeotgal** alongside, and the **onions** underneath sweetening as they cooked. Several posts pass along a television tip about wrapping the meat with squid jeotgal and dried radish in lettuce, but **that is the broadcast talking, not something we counted.** One excluded post described this dish as a spicy stir-fry, **which is simply wrong.**

  Two writers, September and December 2025, put it at 40,000 won.

• 공기밥1 ate it
  gonggi-bap

  **This line may be the most useful thing on the page.** A writer in February 2026 found the broth salty and wanted rice, saw none on the board, and only afterwards noticed **a local customer ordering a bowl separately** — she now tells people to order rice and spoon it into the broth, and still regrets not having done so. **Yet a writer in March 2025 ordered two jang-kalguksu with a bowl of rice**, saying there is broth to spare and that the rice she got for her child was eaten by the adults too. **Whether it is printed on the board is unclear, but you can order it. Nobody wrote the price.**

• 두부구이named in 4
  dubu-gui₩12,000

  **Four writers saw it on the board and not one of the nineteen ordered it.** So we do not know what it is like. Claims about Gangwon tofu and a crisp exterior do appear in several posts, but **all of them are TV recaps or hearsay**, so we did not count them

  One writer, December 2025, put it at 12,000 won.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 김치named in 11
  kimchi

  **A free side dish that eleven posts stop to talk about.** The sides are spare — two or three of kimchi, seasoned radish, pickled radish wraps — but the kimchi draws one verdict. Writers call it mild and cooling, properly ripened rather than sharp, the Gangwon taste. **Four name it as gat kimchi, made with mustard leaf**, one calling it a flavour she had not met before and asking for a refill. **It is not always out** — a writer who came having seen it on television found none that day. One writer checked the origin board and reports almost everything, kimchi included, is Korean

• 곱배기named in 1
  gopbaegi₩2,000

  **You can have any noodle dish in a large size for 2,000 won more.** Only one writer, in March 2025, records this — and she adds that the amount of broth in the jang-kalguksu rather calls for it

  One writer, March 2025, gives the supplement as 2,000 won.

To drink

• 막걸리·소주·맥주named in 2
  makgeolli, soju, maekju

  **They serve drink — one writer lists makgeolli, soju and beer, and two note that the pork, the pancake and the tofu are grouped on the board as things to drink with.** But **not one of the nineteen records ordering a drink** — which may follow from a noodle house that opens at half past ten and closes at eight. One excluded TV recap lists corn makgeolli as a recommendation; **nobody who went there confirmed it.** No prices were written down

Parking

2 posts say you can park; 5 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

There is no car park of its own. Five writers say so, and the only post claiming otherwise is an excluded TV recap which asserts a dedicated lot in front — it is wrong. The roadside is an enforcement zone. Two writers point this out, one adding that you can leave a car in front during the grace hours when enforcement pauses. Two others simply parked in front or in the lane, one putting it as "out front, or nearby, using your judgement". These are the car parks people actually used: the county office visitors' lot (three minutes' walk, free at weekends); the public lot beside the county office, free, a hundred metres and a minute's walk; the Arirang market public lot or the culture and arts centre lot, recommended by another; and the space beside the farmers' hall, favoured by a writer spending the day at the market. One writer says only "within eighty metres". Which is nearest depends on who you ask, so we have not picked one.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

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Getting inside

Nobody wrote about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across nineteen posts there is nothing about a step, a ramp or a doorway width, and the word wheelchair never appears. What the posts do establish. In favour: one writer describes an orange-roofed single-storey building, and there is no mention anywhere of an upstairs or a basement. Against: there is no car park, so it is a hundred metres or more on foot from a public lot; the toilet is in an outbuilding, reached by going outside and through a black gate; and the back room is shoes-off floor seating (the hall has chairs). At a registered 50.87 m² it is small, and no writer describes generous gaps between tables. Whether there is a step at the door, how wide the doorway is, whether the toilet can be entered — we do not know. If it matters, it is worth phoning 033-562-2233.

The toilet is not inside the building. You go out and into an outbuilding — three writers describe it, and their accounts agree. The fullest: out of the front door, right, through a black gate into the annexe; clean enough, with the men's and women's divided within the one block. Another says through the black gate, over by the hydrangeas. A third went out of the entrance and straight in through a side door, and while she would have preferred one indoors, she remembers it as not bad. One more post says there is a toilet, but that line is copied from the Naver listing and we did not count it. Nobody wrote how many cubicles, or how much room.

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 themselves5 / 165 of 16 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way11 / 1611 of 16 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 24 posts we gathered, 8 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

• Eleven of the thirty posts we collected about this place were not visit accounts. Here is why, and where they are wrong. On 12 November 2025 the tvN STORY programme *Namgyeoseo Mwohage* filmed here. Recaps followed, and seven of our thirty posts are recaps — two days later, three days later (twice), a week later, and as much as ten months later. None records a meal; all copy prices and hours from, as one of them admits, "recent online listing information". Three were list posts covering four, nine and nine other restaurants, and we rejected them outright; one was a scraped information sheet; one was a sponsored walking-tour post in which this restaurant appears in a single line naming old shops. Those posts contain errors, which we set down here. If you see these figures elsewhere, do not trust them. · Address and phone: one gives "Bongyang 4-gil 19" and "033-563-1133". Twenty-one posts and the municipal register give Bongyang 5-gil 35 and 033-562-2233. · Parking: one claims a dedicated car park in front. All five writers who actually drove there say there is none. · The pork: one describes it as a spicy stir-fry. It is a slab of pork belly, boiled and sliced — even the other recaps say so. · Prices: five posts put the jang-kalguksu and the cold noodle at 8,000 won. Six writers who ate and paid, between September 2025 and August 2026, all wrote 9,000. · Hours: one gives a 22:00 closing, another a 09:00 opening. All twelve writers who went say 10:30 to 20:00. The figures "opened 1982", "43 years", "44 years" also come from the broadcast and spread from there. Writers who visited repeated them, but none checked independently. What we can say is only that the Baengnyeon Gage designation is given to shops trading at least thirty years in the same location.
• Do not arrive at eight because it closes at eight. Seven writers record that it shuts early when the food runs out. Two of them advise phoning first, one noting that a place this busy often closes ahead of time. Someone did miss out. A writer who went in June 2026 wanted the spring-onion pancake and was told the ingredients had gone. Know too that the board changes with the season — eight writers say so. The cold buckwheat noodles, plain and sauced, run April to October; the dumpling soup and the drained dumplings run November to March. The jang-kalguksu is there all year. A February 2026 visitor was told the sauced cold noodle is not sold in winter, and a December visitor signed off wondering about the summer noodles. The line is not drawn sharply, though — a writer in early June 2026 was served the winter dumplings.
• No post records a wait. Exactly one writer addresses queueing at all, and it is to say she did not queue — she had braced for it and was seated at once (May 2026, lunch before climbing Mindungsan). Two accounts come close: a January 2026 visitor found a steady stream of customers at weekday lunch and was struck that nearly all were locals; a September 2026 couple came at three, off the meal hours, and ate at their leisure. One writer says she had wondered about the place because it always looked busy in passing. The warnings about long queues appear only in the excluded recaps, which speak of lines at lunch and dinner since the broadcast. Those are not visit accounts, so we did not count them. So we do not know whether people queue here. What does look like the bigger risk is the early closing described above.
• Nobody wrote how to get here by bus or train. Across nineteen posts there is no stop name, no route number, no walking time from a station. Three phrases place it: in front of the Arirang market, near the county office, near the five-day market. And one walking distance appears — a hundred metres, one minute, from the public car park beside the county office. We can say it is in the middle of the town between the market and the county office, and no more. A figure of "about ten minutes' walk from the station" circulates, but it appears only in an excluded recap — the same post whose prices and hours we decided not to trust, so we did not use this either. If you are coming without a car, you will have to check for yourself.
• The awards are counted differently in every post. Here are the figures as written. The Baengnyeon Gage designation appears in ten posts, the Blue Ribbon in eight. One writer explains the first correctly: a government certification for shops that have held the same location for at least thirty years and are judged excellent and viable. Another puts it more bluntly — the "hundred-year shop" is not a shop of a hundred years but one that might last a hundred, and thirty is the bar. The Blue Ribbon count varies: one ribbon (September 2026), four of them (December 2025), five consecutive years (August 2026), 2022 through 2025 (August 2025), and an excluded post says three consecutive years. They are presumably counting the stickers on the door differently, but we do not know which count is right. One writer also mentions a Siksin star. Nor is the verdict on the food single. Of the jang-kalguksu: she wants it again, she will return to Jeongseon for it, it was the most memorable stop of the trip. Of the cold noodle: Jeongseon's buckwheat was ordinary, a taste available anywhere, and from one writer, both dishes were so-so. She finished this way: still, the locals come, and it holds the designation and five years of ribbons, so plenty of people must think otherwise.

Sources (16)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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11. 정선시장 군청 맛집 뜨끈한 만두국 파전 정선면옥 2025-12-02 · 아엠쓰리최맘
12. 강원도 정선 맛집 정선면옥, 막국수와 비빔막국수 제대로 즐기기! 2025-09-01 · 오늘의 작은 순간
13. [강원도 맛집] 정선면옥, 아리아리떡사랑 2025-08-25 · 나즈모의 마음 돋보기
14. 강원도 막국수 원탑 내돈내산 정선 막국수맛집 정선면옥 2025-08-25 · 여맛저맛(여행+맛집)
15. 내돈내산_강원 정선 정선면옥 백년가게 블루리본 맛집 후기!! 2025-06-28 · 오늘은 뭐하고 놀징
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Of 179 candidate posts we opened 52 and kept 16 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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