Gilpost · Goseong-gun, Toseong-myeon
Baekchon Makguksu
백촌막국수 Baekchon is the name of the village it stands in — one writer photographs the stone marker at the turning — and makguksu is the cold buckwheat noodle dish of this coast.
Korean · Goseong-gun, Toseong-myeon
Data as of · Published ·
Baekchon Makguksu is a buckwheat-noodle house in an old village dwelling at Baekchon, a little inland from the Goseong coast. It sells two things: buckwheat noodles and boiled pork. The noodles and the dongchimi broth come separately, with perilla oil, vinegar, sugar, mustard and chilli paste on the table, so each diner makes the dish — soup or dressed — for themselves. You take your shoes off and sit on the floor, and there are not many places to sit. On a weekday morning the queue passes a hundred parties before eleven, so this is a restaurant you plan your day around rather than drop into. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and open only through the middle of the day. The twenty-two posts we read were written in August and September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 강원특별자치도 고성군 토성면 백촌1길 10 10 Baekchon 1-gil, Toseong-myeon, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 033-632-5422 |
| Typical spend | ₩13,000 – ₩35,000 |
| Floor area | 39 m² |
| Status | In business |
0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 15 posts: 15 wrote 10:00–17:00.
| Open | 10:00–17:00 15 of 15 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 13:55–14:10 11 of 12 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 화요일 16 of 16 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 수요일 14 of 16 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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 thing to get right here is not the ordering but the clock. There are two queues — on-site registration from nine in the morning (two writers say the machine goes out at seven in high season) and remote queueing through the Tabling app from ten. They share one set of numbers, so tapping at ten o'clock still puts you behind everyone who came in person. The ten-o'clock counts recorded in these posts run 99, 113, 150, 225, 245, 275 parties; two writers looked again on their way out and saw 360 and 441. The two queues do not end the same way: five writers who registered in person between seven and nine were eating between half past ten and noon, on numbers 9, 18, 20, 21 and 31, while those who tapped at ten sat down at 13:30, 14:30, 16:00 and 17:00. One waited seven hours. Note also that you cannot defer your turn and must be present when called — if you plan to go off somewhere, read up on how the app checks your arrival.
- What you order first is what you get. To keep the tables turning, the kitchen takes no additions once you are seated — six posts mention it, one of them because a member of staff repeated it as they sat down. Three more note that everyone at the table must order a bowl of their own. So the decision about the large size, two thousand won more, has to be made at the start, and five writers wished afterwards that they had made it differently. Waiting three hours and then leaving still hungry is the commonest regret recorded here.
- Shoes off, and down on the floor. It is a converted house, with rooms to the left and right of the entrance, and two writers found it awkward to get past the low tables. On how big it is the posts disagree: one found it roomier than expected, while five call it cramped, tightly packed, or small for a place this famous. One writer notes there are no high chairs — another did bring a child, who ate the pork happily. No rice is sold.
- A cat lives here. Three writers passed the wait with it, one of them noting that it seems to be resident and that she had never seen a fatter one; another met a kitten on the way down to the car. At a place where the wait runs to hours this matters more than it sounds — one writer says the old-timer cat kept her from getting bored. Two others mention people selling sweet rice punch and corn on the path up.
What 22 bloggers said
We read all 22 in full. The most common claims are “Had to wait” (21) and “Cramped” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Would not return | yes 2 · no 9 |
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Things you can check on site
| Floor seating | 6 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| Free refills | 5 of 22 posts |
| Shoes off at the door | 4 of 22 posts |
| One dish per person | 3 of 22 posts |
| Resident dog or cat | 3 of 22 posts |
| Waiting area | 2 of 22 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 memil guksu (메밀국수 (막국수)) — 22 of 22 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
15 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 15 of 22 posts |
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You come by car — but there are two car parks, not one. Fifteen writers describe parking. The strip beside the restaurant is small — one puts it at about twelve cars — and once it fills, two posts say the approach is closed off, at which point you leave the car in the larger lot below, by the village marker stone or the supermarket, and walk up. Two mention an attendant directing traffic on the way in. One turning catches people out: a writer who went wrong describes it — turn left *before* the sign for the private car park, not at it. Another advises nervous drivers to use the open ground rather than the narrow entrance. No post mentions a parking charge.
Who came, and with whom
| Came by car | 14 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 6 of 22 posts |
| With a friend | 4 of 22 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 22 posts |
| Family visit | 1 of 22 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
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 |
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Nobody says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Not one of the twenty-two mentions a step at the door, a ramp, or the width of a doorway. What we do know is that you must take your shoes off and sit on the floor (four say so), that parking below means walking up a slope (several), and that the tables are close together. Those facts invite a conclusion, but we are not going to write an inference down as a fact. One writer describes elderly people standing in the rain under umbrellas to wait; another says the waiting area is two benches and no more, though two others found chairs enough to rest on. If it matters, ring 033-632-5422 and ask.
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 · 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 saying they paid themselves6 of 22 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way16 of 22 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 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.
| 2026-09-23 | 3 posts in one day |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 | 2 posts in one day |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 20 |
What we do not know
- Thirty posts came in; we counted twenty-two. Eight are out: four are ranked lists of Goseong restaurants, written from "published data" with no record of a meal — one of them gets the price wrong by three thousand won; three are reviews of other restaurants and cafés, where this place appears only as a comparison or as the queue someone joined before going elsewhere; and one says outright that it is a summary of other people's visits found online. Counting that last would be counting the same mouths twice. Every figure on this page means "of twenty-two".
- If you have no car, we cannot tell you how to get here. One post out of twenty-two mentions public transport, and even that one is not an endorsement: the writer walked, because the guesthouse was near, and notes that no taxi would come. The other twenty-one either drove or do not say. Nobody gives a bus number, a nearest stop, or a journey time from Sokcho or the town. Staying somewhere close seems to be the real answer — four writers put their lodging four to ten minutes away by car — but that is our inference, not anyone's account.
- The lavatory is outside the building — one post says so, and only one. Another writer captioned her photograph of it with dismay and tagged the post "they should replace that lavatory" and "I didn't want to go in". Both wrote from their own eyes and neither contradicts the other. Whether men's and women's are separate, how many cubicles there are, and whether you can use it while queueing, nobody says. For a place where people wait three hours that is worth knowing, and this is as far as we can take it.
- Nobody says what floor it is on, or whether there are steps. Several call it a house, a grandmother's house, an old place — which suggests a single storey converted from a dwelling, but since no one wrote that down, neither will we. What we do know is the approach: park in the lower lot and you walk up a slope (several say so), and when the upper strip fills, that path is the only way in. Whether it has steps, and how steep it runs, nobody records.
- They mostly agree about the food and disagree about the wait. That split is the real content of these posts. Even those who say they would come back attach a condition — if there were no queue, if I could register early in person, if the wait were reasonable. On the other side: not worth it from number two hundred; I would talk you out of it if the wait is over an hour; never again after nearly three hours; once was enough. The shorter the wait, the warmer the verdict — the three-hour writers are markedly the coolest. One of them noticed this in herself, and wrote that she suspected her satisfaction owed something to having come early.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. We read all twenty-two to the last hashtag: no free meal, no invitation, no fee, and six of them state flatly that they paid their own way. The other sixteen say nothing, so all we actually know is that nobody declared anything. It is worth adding that a restaurant with a queue this long has little reason to commission reviews — what it attracts instead is the other thing: eight of the thirty posts about it are ranked lists and second-hand round-ups, which is a large share of what circulates under this name.
- Five o'clock is when it closes, not the last moment you can join. One writer found the waiting list already shut at about half past two; another, conversely, got in at five and reports that the kitchen served everyone who was standing outside by then. One post warns it may close early if the ingredients run out, and one visitor in the afternoon found the pork gone. Where the line is drawn depends on the day, so ring if you are aiming for late. The 13:55–14:10 break is given identically by eleven writers — and one of them was two parties from the door when it started, and waited the extra fifteen minutes.
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Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 222 candidate posts we opened 43 and kept 22 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.