Gilpost · Goyang-si Deogyang-gu, Hwajeong-dong
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Jikhwa Guijip
직화구이집 A charcoal grill house in a converted Hwajeong house, where a free pot of soybean stew and a bowl of steamed egg come with the pork.
Data as of · Published ·
Jikhwa Guijip — the name just means "the open-flame grill house" — sits on the ground floor of a house in a residential lane behind the district office in Hwajeong, Goyang. You grill your own pork over coconut-shell charcoal, and an order of meat brings a pot of soybean stew and a bowl of steamed egg with it at no charge. Pork belly, collar and three other cuts, plus beef short rib, brisket and raw seasoned beef; cold and warm noodle bowls to finish; grilled pork skin, Jeju-style anchovy dipping sauce, and a self-service counter for the side dishes. There is a lunch menu, but not one of the posts we read was written at lunchtime. One writer puts it ten minutes' walk from Hwajeong station. The posts run from December 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 경기도 고양시 덕양구 화중로130번길 5-9 (화정동) 5-9 Hwajung-ro 130beon-gil, Goyang-si Deogyang-gu, Gyeonggi-do |
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| Phone | 031-967-9297 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩49,000 |
| Floor area | 116 m² |
| Status | In business |
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 6 posts: 4 wrote 11:00–24:00, 4 wrote Friday 11:00–01:00, 4 wrote Saturday 11:00–01:00.
| Open | 15:00–24:00 2 of 6 posts last seen 2025-12 | |
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| Open | Friday | 15:00–01:00 2 of 6 posts last seen 2025-12 |
| Open | Saturday | 15:00–01:00 2 of 6 posts last seen 2025-12 |
| Open | 11:00–24:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2025-09 | |
| Open | Friday | 11:00–01:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2025-09 |
| Open | Saturday | 11:00–01:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2025-09 |
| Last order | 23:30 2 of 2 posts last seen 2025-09 | |
| Last order | Friday | 24:30 2 of 2 posts last seen 2025-09 |
| Last order | Saturday | 24:30 2 of 2 posts last seen 2025-09 |
The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.
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
- An order of meat brings a pot of soybean stew and a bowl of steamed egg, free. It is the most-written-about thing here — more than the pork itself. The stew is boiled to order in an earthenware pot; one writer says the solids keep coming until it is finished, another counts vegetables and tofu all the way through. The egg comes over the rim of a pot that, as two writers point out, is not a small one; one used it to fill the wait before the meat was ready, another mixed it into rice for the children at the table. As one writer notes, most grill houses now charge for both — and on the menu here the egg has a price only as a second helping. One caution: nine posts describe the stew in almost identical words, eight of them inside the same six days. That it arrives at all is attested by sixteen separate people; the tasting notes are worth reading with that repetition subtracted.
- Nobody calls it expensive. Everyone who discusses price says the opposite — the meat is priced sensibly for what it is, and one self-described drinker was startled to find soju still at ₩4,000 and counted it a reason to come back. It has gone up, though. Menus copied in December 2024 and April 2025 read ₩15,000 for 200g of belly and ₩19,000 for 150g of brisket; a writer eating here in December 2025 puts a portion of belly at ₩16,000 and of Korean beef brisket at ₩20,000. Whether a portion is the same weight, nobody says, so all we can report is a thousand won on each. The ₩4,000 soju is a March 2025 figure and no later post gives another. The biggest table in these posts — six adults and two small children, five portions of brisket, three of belly, a plate of raw beef — never says what the bill came to.
- Several posts call the room large, and some of them say where they sat: a four-seat table with its own extraction hood over it; a table by the window; seats far enough apart to talk across. One party of eight — six adults, two small children — took two tables and was served across both. Others came with colleagues, or with a group of friends. A post that discloses a fee mentions a group table seating ten or more. Not one writer counts the seats. Nobody found it cramped. One says it looks as though it has just been refitted.
- Where writers describe the owner, the details overlap. One ordered three portions for a party split across two tables and had them divided 1.5 and 1.5 without asking. Another says he checked in through the grilling and kept offering more side dishes even though there is a self-service counter. One reports him bringing the charcoal over and explaining, unprompted, that it is made from coconut shell; a mother says he went out of his way for her child. We have not counted the posts whose entire account is "the staff are friendly" — that line is shared by the six-day cluster and echoes a Naver review tag. Nobody records poor service.
- There is a self-service counter; after the first setting you help yourself. Two writers list it and they agree: kimchi, pickled onion, dressed spring onion, lettuce, ssamjang, wasabi, salt — one adds garlic and pickled wild-garlic leaves. The dressed spring onion is usually not left out on the counter but tossed when you sit down, which is why, one regular says, it is still crisp. Jeju-style anchovy sauce comes separately; one writer is genuinely pleased to find it here, saying you cannot count on it even at a Jeju pork house in Seoul, and the same writer notes plainly that not everyone likes it. Another drops garlic into it and waits for it to cook before eating it with the meat.
- Two writers brought small children, and both found high chairs and children's cutlery. More than ten posts state that these exist, but the rest is copied wording, so only these two are counted. What the two actually say: the mother of the party of eight found chairs but not many of them, and advises ringing ahead if you are coming with a child; she adds that the space between tables made it workable. The other mixed the free steamed egg into rice for her child. Whether there is anywhere to change a nappy, nobody writes.
- Four posts say a receipt review earns you a soju or a soft drink, and two of them took it — one says plainly that she took the soju and enjoyed it, another that she signed up on the spot. At a place where soju is ₩4,000 this is a small thing, but those two wrote down what they were actually given, which is more than the mention itself. The other two only relay that the offer exists, and the claim sits inside the same shared brief as everything else in that six-day cluster. Whether it still runs we could not confirm — the most recent mention is September 2025.
- One post, from December 2024, says the Goyang local-currency card is accepted. It is a line in that writer's own header — parking beside the shop, local currency accepted — and she does not say she paid with it. If you mean to use it, ring first: this is one mention, and nearly two years old. No other post says anything about how you can pay.
What 19 bloggers said
We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (7) and “Would return” (5).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Complimentary starter | 16 of 19 posts |
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| Free refills | 3 of 19 posts |
| High chairs | 2 of 19 posts |
| Review event | 2 of 19 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 1 of 19 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 19 posts |
| Certified Korean pork | 1 of 19 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 1 of 19 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 doenjang jjigae (된장찌개 (서비스)) — 5 of 19 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
Sides, and what comes with it
To drink
Parking
3 posts say you can park; 1 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.
| Posts saying you can park | 3 of 19 posts |
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| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 19 posts |
The posts disagree about parking. Three say there is a lot beside the building, and all three qualify it in the same direction: the shop is the ground floor of a house, the space is tight, the residents use it too, it is small. A December 2024 post simply writes "parking: difficult." Rather than one of them being wrong, this reads as a space that exists but cannot be counted on. One writer adds that when it is full people park along the road behind the shop, and suggests asking the owner — whether that road is actually legal to park on, neither she nor anyone else says. Nobody counts how many cars fit, and nobody says whether it costs anything. No mention of valet.
Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 3 of 19 posts |
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| Came with children | 2 of 19 posts |
| Family visit | 2 of 19 posts |
| Group visit | 2 of 19 posts |
| Date | 1 of 19 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 1 (of 19 posts read) |
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It is on the ground floor — but only one writer says so in her own words, in a December 2025 post explaining that the shop occupies the ground floor of a house, which is why there is a parking space at the side. "1층" appears in all thirty posts, but in the others it is part of the address the check-in widget prints, so we have not counted it. Whether there are steps up to the door, or a lip at the threshold, not one post says. Ground floor does not mean level with the street, and nobody looked at that last step. What several posts do establish is that the building is a converted house.
Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across nineteen first-hand accounts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, step, threshold and step-free access do not appear once. That is not a no; it is that nobody looked and wrote it down. Two writers confirm there are high chairs, so bringing a child is established — but getting a pushchair through the door is a different question and one we cannot answer. What is on the record: a converted house at street level, with a tight parking space at the side. If it matters to your trip, ring and ask.
There is not a single line about the toilets. The word does not appear once in nineteen first-hand posts — not whether they are inside or out the back, not whether they are separate for men and women, not how many, not how clean. Several posts call the room clean, but there is no telling whether that judgement extended to the toilets, and the phrasing itself echoes a Naver review tag. At a place where people drink until midnight, or until one in the morning at weekends, this is a fair thing to want to know, and we have nothing to answer it with. All that is established is that the building is a converted house.
No one mentioned: 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 disclosing payment6 of 19 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 19 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way12 of 19 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 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.
| 2025-09-11 | 2 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 |
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| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 14 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Thirty posts came in and we counted nineteen. Three were transcriptions of the shop's Naver listing — name, address, opening hours by day, eighteen menu lines, a tally of what visitors clicked — with nothing eaten in them, and the same five hashtags in the same order at the bottom of each. Five were written to the reader rather than from a table: spread over seven months, all five open with the same greeting, pass through the same line about the juicy meat you can see, and close with the same invitation to go. Not one of the five says what the writer ordered. Two more shared a title and, near enough, a body, posted a day apart on different blogs; one of those two people may well have eaten here, but there is no way to tell which, so both are out. The last is third-person copy from start to finish. Some prices and hours do come from the excluded posts — where they do, we say so. Of the nineteen we kept, six state that they were paid a fee to write, and one states the opposite in as many words: no sponsorship, she went and paid. The other twelve say nothing either way.
- Twelve of these posts went up in six days, between 11 and 16 September 2025, and all twelve were working from the same brief. The same points recur in almost the same order: domestic fresh pork, cut by the owner himself, coconut-shell charcoal, a named brand of rice, a named maker of kimchi, high chairs and children's cutlery, disposable aprons and a phone charger, a soju or a soft drink for a receipt review. Six of the twelve disclose a fee and six do not. It is worth knowing that the ones who do not disclose are writing the same sentences as the ones who do. We did not count those recurring lines as things anyone saw: more than ten posts mention the phone charger and not one says they used it, so it is counted nowhere, and the high chairs are counted only in the two posts where a child actually came along. The line about tender, thick, un-gamey pork drops out for the same reason. So the numbers on this page run well below the number of posts. We did not throw the twelve away either — where a writer says what she ordered and ate, she stays in.
- Only one post says how to get here without a car: ten minutes on foot from Hwajeong station, written in December 2024. Two others place it in a lane of houses behind the district office, and that is all. Which exit, which buses stop nearby, what those ten minutes are like — uphill or flat, lit or not — nobody writes. The kitchen runs to midnight, and to one in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays, and no one describes the journey home at that hour either. If you plan to walk it, look at a map first.
- Nobody reports queueing, and nobody reports walking straight in either. The words for waiting and for a queue appear nowhere in nineteen first-hand posts, and no one was turned away for want of a table. A wide room down a residential lane invites a guess, but we will not write the guess down. Here is what is established instead: the shop closes on the first and third week of each month, and the posts disagree on whether that day is a Monday or a Tuesday. If a wasted trip is the worry, that is the thing to check. Several posts say you can book by phone, but those lines all sit inside the supplied brief — not one writer says she booked.
- The posts split on opening time, between eleven in the morning and three in the afternoon. Four posts from December 2024 and two from late 2025 give 11:00 to midnight, one in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays, with last orders half an hour before; three others, from April, September and December 2025, give 15:00 instead. Several of the eleven-o'clock posts are either transcriptions of the Naver listing or part of the supplied brief, so weighting the most recent first-hand accounts reads as no daytime opening. We have not confirmed it. One thing fits that reading: there is a lunch set on the menu and not a single post was written at lunchtime. If you mean to go during the day, ring. The closing day splits too: several say the first and third Monday of the month, while the most recent post says the first and third Tuesday — and adds that if you are going on a Tuesday, it is worth a phone call first.
Sources (19)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 313 candidate posts we opened 92 and kept 19 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.