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Southeast Asian

CoCo Ichibanya

코코이찌방야 과천비상교육점 Kokoichibanya Gwacheon-Bisang-gyoyuk-jeom The Gwacheon branch of a Japanese curry chain, on the G floor of Visang Education's head office, where you build a plate from a main, toppings, one of three rice weights and one of five heat levels, and the sauce is refilled free.

Compiled from 28 blog posts read in fullSources →

The Gwacheon Visang branch of CoCo Ichibanya sits on the G floor of the head office Visang Education moved into in March 2024, inside Gwacheon's knowledge-industry district. The chain began in Nagoya in 1978 and now has more than 1,400 branches; this one opened in 2024. Ordering has four steps: choose a main, add toppings, choose 200, 300 or 400 grams of rice, and choose one of five heat levels. Curries, omelette rices and curry udon take cutlet and fried toppings, and there are separate children's trays. Every table has a tablet, and you order and pay from your seat. The kitchen closes from three until five. Next door to the Pearl Abyss offices, it fills with local office workers at weekday lunch, and because a children's play centre shares the building, weekends bring families. It is about a kilometre from Indeogwon station on line 3, and parking is the building's own underground car park. The posts we read run from October 2024 to May 2026.

Data as of · Published ·

Location & hours

  • Address경기도 과천시 과천대로2길 54, 비상교육 사옥 1층 (갈현동)54 Gwacheon-daero 2-gil, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
  • Typical spend₩3,000 – ₩17,700
  • From the station4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
  • Floor areaFloor area 78 m² · Status In business

When it opens

Of 25 posts: 15 wrote Daily 11:00–20:30, 10 wrote 11:00–20:30.

When it opens
Daily11:00–20:3015 of 25 posts
No day given11:00–20:3010 of 25 posts
Break15:00–17:0020 of 20 posts
Last order20:0014 of 14 posts

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

  1. More curry sauce is free. Ten posts say so, one calling it open-handed. Two catches. First, a refill comes at the standard heat only — five writers note this, so anyone who ordered it very hot will be cooling it down; one writer turns that round and treats it as the point, ordering a step hot and diluting to taste. Second, how many times is unclear: one post says one refill, four simply say a top-up is free when you run short. The writer who sized his rice up to 400 grams ran out of sauce and asked — so going large on rice will probably use up your one.
  2. Children come here, and it is the building rather than the curry. A large play centre, Gogo Dino EX, shares the premises, and twenty of the twenty-eight posts bring it up. Eight describe the route — eat here before or after the play centre — and one argues for feeding children outside it, being sick of the play centre's own cutlets. Ten writers did come with children, and one notes that every other table had a baby. The shop is set up for it: eleven saw high chairs, three say children's cups, spoons and forks arrived without being asked for, and one was brought tongs and scissors for cutting a cutlet. The children's tray is ₩8,500 and has no heat level to choose.
  3. You order and pay at your table. Fourteen posts mention it, one glad not to have to call anyone over. Three note a paper menu for those who would rather not use the tablet, and six that a large board stands outside the door so you can decide before going in. Two things here come from being in an office building. One is a 'treasurer's hour' scheme paid by NFC tap, which three writers were told is for staff of the building's companies. The other is that the shop takes Gwacheon's local currency, which four mention. One writer got stuck ordering and pressed the call button for help.
  4. Coming alone does not mean eating at a wall. The room runs back a long way and the solo seats sit at the window at the far end — eleven posts mention them, praising the full-height glass, the sense of not facing a wall, and (from one writer) the prospect of a weekday lunch there with headphones in. One can see Gwanaksan from it; another notes the high ceiling. The rest are sofa seats divided by half-height partitions, which five describe, two of them glad of somewhere to pen a child in. There are no private rooms: four writers use the word private, and all four mean the partitions.
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  1. Five heat levels: mild, standard, slightly hot, very hot and challenge. Twenty-three posts discuss it, and four independently put 'slightly hot' at the level of Shin Ramyun. Below that, one writer says the standard grade is mild enough for primary-school children, and another that the children's dishes have no level to choose and come unspiced. Above it, both writers who took 'very hot' warn that it means it, and one who then added the table powder puts the result at instant-fire-noodle heat. Mild is not necessarily mild to a small child, though: one writer ordered it and thought the pepper and the curry spice still read as heat to her toddler. Three recommend the manoeuvre — order the pot mild for the table and lift your own dish with the powder.

What 28 bloggers said

18/28Most ordered
obokchae
26/28Most-said good thing
Clean
1/28Posts disclosing payment

We read all 28 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (26) and “Crispy batter” (19).

What they liked

Clean26 of 28 posts
Crispy batter19 of 28 posts
Roomy10 of 28 posts
Juicy8 of 28 posts
Friendly staff8 of 28 posts
Food comes quickly7 of 28 posts
Large portions6 of 28 posts
Thick cut4 of 28 posts
Not expensive2 of 28 posts
Returning customer3 of 28 posts
Not greasy3 of 28 posts
Quiet2 of 28 posts

Where they disagree

Had to waityes 4 · no 6
Spicyyes 3 · no 3

Things you can check on site

  • Review event 14 of 28 posts
  • Self-order screen 14 of 28 posts
  • High chairs 12 of 28 posts
  • Large windows 11 of 28 posts
  • Free refills 10 of 28 posts
  • Lift to the floor 7 of 28 posts
  • Reachable by transit 4 of 28 posts
  • Local currency accepted 4 of 28 posts
  • Cooked to order 4 of 28 posts
  • Open kitchen 2 of 28 posts
  • Takeout 2 of 28 posts
  • Discount offered 2 of 28 posts
  • Waiting area 1 of 28 posts
  • High ceiling 1 of 28 posts
  • Beer served 1 of 28 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is obokchae (오복채) — 18 of 28 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

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Parking

21 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.

Posts saying you can park21 of 28 posts

Parking is easy; how much of it is free is not settled. Twenty-one posts cover it and not one failed to park — the new building's underground car park draws words like cavernous, and one writer says that on a weekend you have most of a level to yourself. Two advise going straight down to B2, since B1 is taken up with electric-vehicle bays and the like. The free allowance appears in two versions: two posts say thirty minutes as standard plus an hour on top, two say simply an hour. We cannot tell which is current. It is not automatic — you have to ask: two writers say to request validation from the staff after eating, and one had an hour registered that way. What it costs beyond the free window, nobody wrote down.

Who came, and with whom

  • Family visit 12 of 28 posts
  • Came by car 11 of 28 posts
  • Came with children 10 of 28 posts
  • Date 7 of 28 posts
  • Group visit 1 of 28 posts

Where it is

Map showing where CoCo Ichibanya is

From the station

4 posts say it is walkable from the station.

Getting inside

Lift to the floor7 of 28 posts

The floor goes by three different names. The licence address says the building's first floor; the shop itself, and twenty-three posts, call it the G floor. Two posts nonetheless write 'first floor of the Visang Education centre', and one says 'it is on G — think of it as the second floor'. The building numbers its levels 1, G and L, so 1 and G are not the same floor: seven writers describe taking the lift from the car park, getting out at G and finding the shop immediately to the left or round the corner, and one specifies G as the level above 1. How many steps there are, and whether you can reach it without the lift, nobody wrote. Beyond the fact that it is not below ground, and that reaching it on foot means an outside staircase (which one writer got lost on), we know nothing.

Nobody has looked at whether a wheelchair gets in. One post does carry the words 'wheelchair accessible' and 'accessible parking bay' — but that line is Naver's amenity list copied whole, running on from takeaway discount, packaging, delivery, groups and high chairs, and the body of that post says nothing about a step or a ramp. So we did not count it. The words for ramp, step, threshold and pram appear nowhere in the twenty-eight. All we know is that the floor is reachable by lift (seven posts). Whether there is a lip at the shop's own entrance, what the route from the car park to the lift is like, how much room there is between the partitioned seats — no one recorded any of it. This is not a yes and not a no.

Nobody has seen the toilet. The word appears once in the twenty-eight posts, inside a copied Naver amenity line — wifi, separate men's and women's toilets, parking — and nothing in that post says the writer went. So we did not count it. The shop sits in a food row inside a corporate building, so whether the toilet is its own or the floor's is exactly the sort of thing that would matter, and we do not know which, or how far away it is. Nor is there any mention of a baby-change table, although ten of the writers brought children.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · 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 payment1 of 28 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 28 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way26 of 28 posts

When the posts appeared

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Month by month
MonthPosts
2024-103
2024-122
2025-021
2025-038
2025-0410
2025-053
2025-101

What we do not know

  • The queue depends on the day, and what we know is the weekend side. Four posts say there is a wait at weekday lunch, and none of the four stood in it: one avoids weekdays on principle and passes on the warning, one was told by a member of staff that lunchtime can have a wait (and that it is short because food comes out fast and tables turn), one saw a waiting list pinned by the door, and one glanced back at a lengthening queue on the way out. Against that, six posts report no wait at all, every one of them on a weekend or just after the afternoon break — near-empty on weekends, two occupied tables at five o'clock, no queue at a late weekend lunch. Two of those add that the room filled up soon after they sat down. How long you actually wait at noon on a weekday, nobody measured.
  • There is almost nothing here about getting in by public transport. Five of twenty-eight posts mention a station: one puts it at about a kilometre from Indeogwon, and four say variously that you can walk it from Indeogwon, that it is handy from either Anyang or Gwacheon, that it sits between Indeogwon and the government-complex station, and that the lie of the land makes Indeogwon closer than it looks. Not one writer describes walking there. Eleven drove; the rest do not say. No post mentions a bus — the words for bus and bus stop never appear in the twenty-eight. Two writers describe finding the door, and both got lost doing it from street level, one going up an outside staircase and circling the building. Seven say instead that from the underground car park the lift puts you right outside it.
  • Nineteen of the twenty-eight posts fall inside seven weeks, between 18 March and 2 May 2025. Six of them close with the same three hashtags, spacing and all, and the one post that declares sponsorship (28 April 2025) sits in the middle of them. We did not strike them from the denominator: the bodies differ, there are prices, the seats chosen differ, and one writer reports that even the mild grade read as spicy to her child. Still, it is worth knowing that most of the warm writing about this place comes from those seven weeks. Fourteen posts relay a receipt-review offer of a soft drink or a half sausage, and one says she collected it. And the lines about twenty-plus natural spices, four days of maturing, 1,400 branches worldwide and Nagoya in 1978 appear in near-identical wording in eight posts — that is the chain's own copy, and we did not count it as anything anyone saw.
  • Two prices do not line up. The loin-cutlet curry is ₩12,900 in a December 2024 post and ₩14,500 in one from May 2025; the hamburg-steak omelette rice is ₩14,500 in October 2024 and ₩13,700 in April 2025 (backed out of a ₩16,500 total less a ₩2,800 lotus-root cutlet). Whether that is a rise, two different sizes, or someone writing it down wrong, we cannot tell. The shop makes this harder: with toppings and rice, the same dish comes to different money, and one writer turned a ₩9,400 curry into ₩15,800 with two toppings and extra rice. And spring 2025 seasonals appear in five posts with no way of knowing whether they are still sold — the cheese-filled tender, the tomato omelette, a White Day set, and a curry built on an instant-noodle brand.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 256 candidate posts we opened 85 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.