Korean
Dangeumi Sikdang
단금이식당 Sikdang simply means 'eatery'; the posts give no meaning for Dangeumi — one blogger wondered if it was the owner's name and found it was not.
Compiled from 17 blog posts read in fullSources →
A flat-price Korean home-style buffet in the buffet alley of Gyeongju's Seongdong Market, near the passage from the public car park. You sit, pick a soup, and staff bring rice and soup; you serve yourself from 20 to 30 side dishes. Soups are usually beef-radish, dried radish greens, or seaweed. Fifteen visit posts give 9,000 won per person; one says 8,000. We read 30 posts from July 2025 to October 2026; 18 record an actual meal. Eleven were write-ups or TV-recap posts we did not count, and one was about a neighboring stall.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address경상북도 경주시 원화로281번길 11, 26,27,28,29,30호 (성동동, 성동공설시장 가게동)11 Wonhwa-ro 281beon-gil, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do
- Phone054-773-3018
- Typical spend₩8,000 – ₩9,000 only 1 of 10 dishes carries a price
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 20 m² · Status In business
When it opens
| Closed | 매달 첫째·셋째 일요일 | 2 of 3 posts |
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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
- Eight of 18 visit posts call the staff kind, with specifics: rice packed down firmly into the bowl, a parent with a baby thanking them over and over, the only stall still serving after 7 pm. Two posts mention being called in from the aisle by the owner.
- Three posts mention a free drink: scorched-rice tea on sitting down, a sweet rice drink before the meal, and old-style instant coffee on the way out.
- One post, visiting with a nine-month-old, was surprised to find a baby chair inside a market stall. Two posts came with children; the same one said the air conditioning was strong enough that the baby needed a cardigan.
- Seasoning splits one to three: one post found it salty, three said it was not too strong — including one who usually finds Gyeongsang food too salty.
1 more
- Two posts saw the origin labels posted; one noted almost everything except the tofu was domestic.
What 17 bloggers said
hansik buffet
Friendly staff
We read all 17 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (8) and “Not salty” (3).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
- Complimentary tea or drink 3 of 17 posts
- Free refills 3 of 17 posts
- Origin labelling posted 2 of 17 posts
- Air conditioned 2 of 17 posts
- Reachable by transit 1 of 17 posts
- High chairs 1 of 17 posts
- Seats to sit and eat 1 of 17 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
7 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 7 of 17 posts |
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Seven visit posts drove and parked — in the Seongdong Market public car park, not a lot of the restaurant's own. Four say they were asked at the till whether they had parked and handed a 30-minute free parking ticket. One had trouble finding a space on level 2.
Who came, and with whom
- Came by car 9 of 17 posts
- Family visit 4 of 17 posts
- Came with children 2 of 17 posts
- Group visit 1 of 17 posts
- With a friend 1 of 17 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
No visit post says what floor the stall is on; one only mentions taking the car-park lift down into the market.
We don't know about steps or wheelchair and stroller access; even the post with a baby doesn't say. That means no one wrote about it, not that there is a problem.
We don't know about toilets. One post's info box says outdoor and separate by sex, and another mentions the car-park toilet as a landmark; we didn't count either.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 saying they paid themselves4 of 17 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way13 of 17 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 posts we gathered, 11 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.
| 2026-06-15 | 4 posts in one day |
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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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 5 |
| 2026-10 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Only one visit post arrived by bus, from Singyeongju Station. Walking times from Gyeongju Station appear only in TV-recap posts.
- No visit post reports waiting, though some found it full at lunch. Two posts say the alley winds down early — packing up after 5 pm, almost all closed after 7.
- Four visit posts came with family, one with a friend; nine drove. None of the visit posts say they went alone.
- Opening hours vary between posts. Four give hours, all copied info boxes: opening at 7:00 (two) or 8:00 (one), closing at 19:00 (one) or 20:00 (two). Two agree it closes the first and third Sunday of each month; one says it never closes.
- Fifteen visit posts give 9,000 won; one from September 2026 says 8,000. The claim it rose from 6,000 through 7,000 and 8,000, and a 4,000-won child price, appear only in write-ups.
- Several posts list the phone number 054-773-3018, but none says whether phone booking works.
- Seven TV-recap posts appeared within ten days of the June 15, 2026 MBC broadcast, repeating the same facts in the same order. None records a meal, so we counted none of them.
Sources (17)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 경주 고즈넉카페 고냅브로시스 첨성대 해바라기 국립경주박물관 성.... 2026-10-05 · 꽁 story
- 단금이 한식뷔페 (경주 성동시장) 2026-09-28 · 오독
- 지금 계림엔 꽃무릇 한창…가볍게 다녀온 9월 경주 나들이 2026-09-21 · heyu03님의블로그
- 성동시장 맛집] 집밥 반찬이 산더미, 가성비 끝판왕 단금이식당 한식뷔페 내돈내산 🍚🥢 (가격💵/주차정보🚘) 2026-09-18 · 이 기세를 몰아! · via Daum
- 경주여행 아침식사 경주성동시장 단금이식당 보배김밥 ~♡ 2026-09-17 · 지나치오 일상스토리 · via Daum
- 경주 현지인 한식뷔페 추천, 성동시장 단금이식당 여러 번 가본 후.... 2026-09-10 · 궁금한 것들의 기록
- [내돈내산] 경주 가볼 만한 곳. 많은 맛집이 모여있는 경주성동시장..... 2026-08-22 · 공가리의 일상
- [내돈내산] 경주 성동시장 한식뷔페 맛집. 가성비 최고의 한 끼. 단.... 2026-08-21 · 공가리의 일상
- 경주, 울산 당일치기 2026-08-20 · 미니사니의 탐방 기록
- 경주 성동시장 먹거리 맛집｜단금이식당 한식뷔페, 아기랑 시장에.... 2026-08-02 · 떵이와 호야의 육아일기
- 경주성동시장 맛집 "단금이 한식뷔페" 내돈내산 후기 2026-07-26 · 그러려니의 바쁘다바빠 현대사회
- 경주 성동시장 한식뷔페 단금이식당 2026-06-27 · 멋쟁이 일기장
- [경주] 경주성동시장 한식뷔페 단금이 식당 2026-06-05 · " · via Daum
- 경주 여행 맛집 성동시장 한식뷔페 금단이식당, 주차장 정보 2026-05-08 · 영어회화스터디 랭스영 국내어학연수 · via Daum
- 경주여행 현지인맛집 성동시장 시장뷔페 시장백반 단금이식당 2026-03-30 · 국도대장정
- 경주 성동동 성동시장 단금이 한식뷔페 2026-03-03 · 아인지안아빠의 먹거리, 취미생활
- 경북 경주시 성동동 성동시장 단금이 한식뷔페 2025-07-23 · 택시기사 규선생 사생활 블로규
Of 322 candidate posts we opened 71 and kept 17 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.