Gilpost · Hwaseong-si Dongtan-gu, Bansong-dong
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Sangmu Chobap Dongtan
상무초밥 동탄점 A ground-floor branch of a sushi chain by Dongtan's south plaza, built around its midday sets
Compiled from 19 blog posts read in fullSources →
Sangmu Chobap Dongtan is a branch of a sushi chain, on the ground floor of a building facing the road at Dongtan's south plaza. The midday sets are what this place is — five of the twenty people who went ate the ten-piece lunch, which arrives as one tray: ten pieces, chilled buckwheat noodles in summer or udon in winter, a savoury custard, prawn and sweet-potato tempura, and a tea to finish. Thirteen posts call it cheap for what it is and none calls it expensive. You order from a kiosk or tablet at your own table, and when it is busy you put your number into the waiting app at the door and sit in the waiting area. Nine posts say it opens at eleven every day and closes at ten to ten. One notes the chain began in the Sangmu district of Gwangju and now has fifty-one branches. The posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address경기도 화성시 동탄구 메타폴리스로 54, 1층 101호,102호,103호 (반송동, 동탄파라곤II)54 Metapolliseu-ro, Hwaseong-si Dongtan-gu, Gyeonggi-do
- Phone0507-1401-2270
- Typical spend₩12,900 – ₩23,000
- From the station2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 150 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 13 posts: 9 wrote Daily 11:00–21:50, 4 wrote 11:00–21:50.
| Daily | 11:00–21:50 | 9 of 13 posts |
|---|---|---|
| No day given | 11:00–21:50 | 4 of 13 posts |
| Last order | 21:30 | 2 of 7 posts |
1 other values
| Last order | 21:20 5 of 7 posts last seen 2026-05 |
|---|
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
- Prices went up over the two years, and the midday sets were renamed and pared back. Four posts from October 2024 to October 2025 give the basic ten-piece assortment at 12,900 won; one from September 2026 gives 14,900. Four posts between April 2025 and February 2026 agree on the midday sets as A at 10,900, B at 13,900 and the cutlet at 11,900; a September 2026 post lists them instead as the Jeongseong set at 12,900, the Seongchan set at 14,900, the cutlet at 11,900 and a new noodle set at 12,900. That post names the change itself: the make-up was revised, the futomaki roll dropped out of the midday set, the tomato salad went, and the tray of buckwheat noodles shrank to a small bowl. A post five days earlier says the same thing from the other side — everything now comes on one tray, and the two portions of cold noodles quietly became one. We did not confirm that A and B are the same sets under the new names, so we show both prices. Even so, thirteen posts call it cheap for what it is and none calls it expensive.
- The wait depends entirely on when you come — five posts waited and eight did not. One waited twenty minutes at lunch; one arrived at opening on a weekend and sat after "a moment"; one found every table full at lunch and took a single seat at the bar. Going the other way, someone who came at half eight in the evening found the room nearly empty with only delivery riders coming and going, and a late arrival describes the tables as thinly filled. Six posts agree on how the waiting works: you enter your number into the waiting app at the door and sit in the waiting area, where there are chairs and tea or water. One says a lunchtime visit means putting your name down first; another simply goes at opening to avoid the question. Whether you can join the queue remotely, nobody says.
- Every table has its own ordering screen — nine posts mention it, calling it a kiosk, a tablet or a touch-order pad. Two note that you pay on the way out. What they like about it is specific: one writer, who would rather not flag down a server, likes that extra side dishes go through the screen; another, out with five children and unable to get a six-seater, seated the adults and the children apart and — since each table orders and the bill comes later — simply told them to order what they wanted. A third, out with her parents and her son, makes it the reason for the place: one table can order three different ways, an assortment for the parents, singles for herself, roe for the boy. One writer complains that the screen is hard to photograph a menu from; three are glad the menu board is also posted outside.
- The aged white kimchi is what people write about here. Nine posts single it out and five asked for more — "I refill it twice, every time", "I lost count of how many plates we ordered", "ask and they bring more". One says a tub is left on the table to help yourself from; another orders it through the screen. They explain why: most sushi places give you nothing but pickled radish, while this is a sweet kimchi that carries the fish; a few pieces in, it clears the mouth and sends you back to the sushi. One writer, out with her parents, notes that a small accompaniment like this matters more than it sounds when you are eating with older people. A tomato-and-onion pickle comes alongside, which two describe as the thing to reach for when the fish starts to sit heavy.
1 more
- Only two posts say anything about getting here without a car: one that the station is close and that being on the main road makes it easy to find on foot, and one simply that it is easy to spot from the road. Not one gives a station and a walking time — one post has "Dongtan Station" in its title, but the text talks only about car parks. Three do give landmarks within walking distance: five minutes and about 400 metres from the Megabox cinema, opposite the Dongtan culture centre, beside the Banseoksan eco-school. One writer swims at the culture centre and eats here afterwards. Five of the twenty say they drove; nobody says they came by public transport.
What 19 bloggers said
jinsim modum chobap
Not expensive
We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (13) and “Clean” (7).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 5 · no 8 |
|---|---|
| Returning customer | yes 6 · no 4 |
| Thick cut | yes 2 · no 2 |
Things you can check on site
- Self-order screen 9 of 19 posts
- Waiting area 6 of 19 posts
- Free refills 5 of 19 posts
- Ground floor 4 of 19 posts
- Complimentary tea or drink 4 of 19 posts
- Independent, not a chain saying it is not 3 of 19 posts
- Open kitchen 3 of 19 posts
- Takeout 2 of 19 posts
- Discount offered 2 of 19 posts
- Reachable by transit 2 of 19 posts
- Wi-Fi 1 of 19 posts
- Parking capacity 1 of 19 posts
- Beer served 1 of 19 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
6 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 6 of 19 posts |
|---|
People drive here — six write about parking a car and none says you cannot. There are two places to put it. First, the building's underground car park: one writer notes the bays are wide enough for a nervous driver, and another traces the route back out, up from the basement and around to the street entrance facing the culture centre. Four call it free and two of those say two hours. Second, the public car parks around it — four name them (Namgwangjang, Daeun, Eco School, Hanbit) and three say an hour and a half free. Two writers, offered both, chose the public one: one finds it simply easier, adding that multi-storeys frighten her; the other normally prefers a building's own lot but rates an open surface lot above it. One post says to use the culture centre's car park when the building is full, free for two hours. How long the free period runs differs from post to post, and we cannot tell which figure is current.
Who came, and with whom
- Came by car 5 of 19 posts
- Family visit 4 of 19 posts
- Solo visit 3 of 19 posts
- Came with children 3 of 19 posts
- Date 3 of 19 posts
- Group visit 1 of 19 posts
Where it is
From the station
2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 4 (of 19 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 19 posts read) |
Ground floor, facing the road. Four writers say so in their own words: the shop is the ground floor of the building you see as soon as you park at the south plaza; it is at street level on the restaurant strip, which makes it easy to find; "ground floor, on the road"; and the account of coming up from the basement car park to the street entrance on the far side, by the culture centre. We did not count the "Metapolis-ro 54, 1F" address line the check-in widget prints — ten posts carry it, but no one looked at it. One thing worth adding: the writer coming up from the car park turned right and had to walk the long way round, so it is worth checking which side the door is on.
Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across the twenty-two texts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, doorstep, level change and stairs never once appear — checked by machine and then by hand. Nobody looked at whether there is a step at the door or how wide it is. This is not "you cannot": it is we do not know. Two things we do know are worth setting down: four writers say in their own words that the shop is at street level facing the road, and one describes coming up out of the building's basement car park and in through that street entrance. Nor does anyone mention a high chair or a baby-change table — four posts came with children, and all four write only about what the children ate.
Two posts mention the toilet, and neither says it is inside the restaurant. One writes "building toilet: yes" in her own checklist, which reads as using the building's rather than the shop's. The other, collecting a takeaway, read the notices by the door and found the toilet code posted along with the car park and the wi-fi — and deliberately did not publish the code, in case it changes. So you may have to ask the shop for the number. Whether it is separated by sex, nobody observed: one post ends with a line listing separate toilets, takeaway, delivery and parking, but that is the platform's own facilities list copied over, so we did not count it. An accessible toilet appears in no post at all.
No one mentioned: 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
- Someone else paid1 of 19 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves7 of 19 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way11 of 19 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 21 posts we gathered, 2 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 2 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- There are two Sangmu Chobap in Dongtan, and this is the Bansong-dong one. The business register lists this branch on Metapolis-ro and a separate Lake Park branch in Song-dong, and one writer draws the line himself: "there are two in Dongtan and this is the Dongtan branch". Another had been to the Lake Park one first and compares them, preferring that room as the newer-feeling of the two. That is why we dropped one post we could not place: a month-long diary covering eleven different addresses that says only "the Sangmu Chobap by my house — and a conveyor one at that", with neither our address nor our check-in, while not one of the twenty-two posts about this shop describes a conveyor.
- We counted twenty of the twenty-six posts. Four we removed as not being about this shop: an 11,000-character job listing that names hundreds of restaurants and reaches ours only as two other branches; a review of a rice-cake shop where our whole appearance is "had Sangmu Chobap for lunch and dropped by" — and whose author's actual review of us is also in this set; a barbecue review where our name sits only in the "you might also like" box at the very bottom; and the unplaceable diary described above. Two more we kept but left out of the denominator: both are delivery-only. One ends by saying she will come to the shop next time for the hot udon. We also kept the delivery-app prices out of the shop's. Not one post declares a sponsorship — checked to the last hashtag, the words for sponsorship, comped meals and paid copy never appear across the twenty. Seven say they paid themselves and one went on a gift voucher she had been given. Two posts, though, exist to promote their own author's business: the blogs of an unstaffed adult shop and of a hearing-aid clinic. The adult shop's post gives our shop three sentences, so it stays in the denominator with nothing counted from it.
- People disagree about how much rice there is. One writer could not finish it; one found the portion exactly right, neither stuffing nor short; one, calling himself a big eater, always adds a piece or two. One says a request for less rice is not honoured — and she is a regular: she asks everywhere, was told it was possible here, finds it does not happen, scrapes the excess off herself, and regrets throwing away close to half. Going the other way, one writer likes that the rice is on the small side because it lets the egg come through. These are single voices each, so we leave them as they stand.
- One person wrote down a hygiene worry. Seven posts call the place clean — three note that the open counter lets you watch the sushi being made, and one regular says the soy dishes and the crockery are visibly kept clean, which is why he keeps coming. But a solo diner in April 2025 wrote this: one of the chefs prepping fish was not wearing a mask and was talking away with another, and she found herself worrying about spray on the fish, wishing they would take a little more care. It is one person on one day, and no post in the twenty-eight months since says the same. We judged it right to leave in rather than out: this is a place that serves raw fish, and the counter is open to the room. The same writer also notes that the after-meal tea can simply be forgotten when the staff are busy, and that you can ask for it once you have finished.
- Four posts say government vouchers are accepted here — three name the living-cost recovery voucher (September and October 2025, and a fuel-cost one in May 2026) and one calls it simply the relief payment. This does not match any column we count, so we record it here rather than as a number. These schemes change from year to year, so whether it still applies we cannot say. Three more things belong in the same box: a May 2026 post describes a family-month offer of 50% off selected dishes when you bring a primary-school child or a parent over sixty, and the same post notes a stored-value card that adds 5% on top of a 50,000-won load and a 3% loyalty accrual on what you spend. All three come from a single post and we did not confirm any of them.
Sources (19)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- <동탄 맛집> 반송동 가성비 최고, 현지인 추천 상무초밥 동탄점 점심.... 2026-09-16 · 오늘의 너를 응원해
- 동탄맛집추천 상무초밥 실패가 없는 초밥맛집 내돈내산 5년 차 단골이다. 2026-09-05 · 정보/맛집/스포츠 리뷰 전문 블로그 · via Daum
- 동탄 상무초밥 메뉴 추천, 모둠 vs 낱개초밥 3대 가족이 먹어보니 2026-09-03 · 힌트기록 · via Daum
- <동탄 독일 보청기> 동탄 반송동 상무 초밥 점심특선 추천합니다. 2026-05-27 · 동탄독일보청기 · via Daum
- 동탄 반송동 '상무초밥' _ 메가박스 동탄점 스시 맛집 추천 ! 2026-05-21 · 따듯한 스프처럼 따스한, 따숲 _
- 동탄 초밥 맛집 스시 포장 상무초밥 동탄점 내돈내산 후기 2026-03-02 · 밤끼의 홍익인간 실현공간
- 동탄 스시맛집 '상무초밥' 점심특선 구성/주차/웨이팅/가격 정보 2026-02-25 · 쪼물랭 키우기
- 동탄 상무초밥 런치 A B C 완벽 비교, 실패없는 런치B세트 후기 (내돈.... 2026-01-20 · 사랑하는시간들
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- 상무초밥 동탄점 2025-08-12 · happylife_333님의 블로그
- 🍣 동탄 반송동 상무초밥 리뷰 2025-08-08 · 내가 붙이는 것들 · via Daum
- 동탄 초밥 맛집 추천 반송동 혼밥으로 좋은 연어초밥이 맛있는 상무초밥 2025-07-17 · 어푸와 수와정의 하루 · via Daum
- [동탄 북광장/남광장] 상무초밥 평일 점심특선B 식사후기 2025-04-27 · 콩알일기 · via Daum
- 동탄 반송동 맛집 : 가볍게 점심 먹기 좋은 ‘상무초밥’ 2024-10-30 · 딘이의 블로긍
- [남돈남산/상무초밥] 동탄 직장 동료들과 점심 회식으로 좋은 곳 2024-10-28 · 13NAMJA 리뷰 · via Daum
Of 371 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 19 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.