Gilpost · Hwaseong-si Byeongjeom-gu, Jinan-dong
Kim Tae-yong-ui Seomjip Kalguksu Agubulgogi Byeongjeom-jeom
김태용의 섬집 칼국수아구불고기 병점점 Seomjip means 'island house': a monkfish-and-clam restaurant off the Byeongjeom shopping strip in Hwaseong, where ordering the charred monkfish bulgogi brings a free pot of clams with it.
Korean · Hwaseong-si Byeongjeom-gu, Jinan-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Kim Tae-yong's Seomjip, Byeongjeom branch, is a monkfish-and-clam house at the near end of the Byeongjeom shopping strip in Hwaseong, on the ground floor of 9 Byeongjeom-jungang-ro 170beon-gil. It opened in February 2026. Two dishes carry it: monkfish bulgogi — the fish seasoned and stir-fried hard enough to char, ₩39,000 for two — and a kalguksu loaded with clams that you pick out before dropping the noodles in (₩12,000–13,000 for clams alone, ₩13,000 with monkfish added, ₩15,000 for the large). Order any of the jjim or bulgogi dishes and a pot of scallop, mussel and clam arrives free, and there is sweet plum tea afterwards. Weekdays from eleven until three, the main dishes are ₩2,000 cheaper, and the Hwaseong local currency is accepted. Open Tuesday to Sunday, eleven until half past nine, last orders 20:30, closed Mondays. Five writers describe walls built to look like Jeju's dry-stone dykes and rattan lamps, matching the "island house" in the name. It is one of several branches, the others in Hyangnam and Pohang. The fifteen posts we read run from February to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 경기도 화성시 병점구 병점중앙로170번길 9, 1층 일부호 (진안동) 9 Byeongjeomjungang-ro 170beon-gil, Hwaseong-si Byeongjeom-gu, Gyeonggi-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 031-237-1207 as written in the posts 031-224-1292 as registered on the licence |
| Typical spend | ₩5,000 – ₩39,000 |
| Floor area | 117 m² |
| Status | In business |
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 8 posts: 8 wrote 11:00–21:30.
| Open | 11:00–21:30 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-07 | |
|---|---|---|
| Last order | 20:30 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-07 | |
| Closed | 월요일 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-07 |
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
- Order any jjim or bulgogi and a pot of clams arrives free — ten writers ate it, and all ten are startled in the same place. Do not sit there thinking you did not order this, warns one. Too much and too good to be a freebie, says another. The first place in years to give away this much. Worth a menu price of its own. Enough on its own to drink over. And the shortest verdict of all: it is simply a soju launchpad. Scallop, mussel and clam with water dropwort and a fish-cake skewer, and it lands before the main. The skewer comes one to a pot, and one writer got four for writing a review. Five reach for the broth between mouthfuls of the hot main to clear their mouths. It does not come with the noodle dishes: three writers state that it is tied to the jjim and bulgogi. Nor is it the only thing given away — seven mention the free plum tea afterwards, and eleven the side dishes you fetch yourself, two of them going back repeatedly for the white kimchi.
- Thirteen writers call the portions large and not one calls them small — but "large" means different things dish by dish. The noodle pots are too much for two: one says you need three people, another regretted not cooking half the noodles. Hence the advice to put in half, see how you feel, and cook the rest. Every table has a bin for shells and two writers filled theirs past the top; one built walls out of the shells and pressed them down to make room. The monkfish bulgogi fills you differently — there are udon noodles and rice cake underneath, noted by three writers, and the largest size feeds three or four by one account. Four of them ate the fried rice anyway: full, and it still goes in; I could not see how, says one, and then it was gone.
- Five writers report ₩2,000 off the main dishes at weekday lunch. Four of the five give the window as eleven to three and the fifth says the same thing in other words. One, who went at the weekend and missed it, still notes that it would make this a good spot for a weekday lunch gathering. There are other ways the bill comes down: two say the Hwaseong local currency is accepted, and two report something given for a review — four fish-cake skewers instead of the standard one, or a soft drink. Two note that baekseju costs ₩5,000, the same as soju, and both conclude there is no reason not to. One writer worked out how to save on the fried rice: rather than the ₩5,000 self-serve portion for two, they ordered two bowls of plain rice for ₩2,000 and fried it in the leftover sauce themselves.
- It is new, and it is clean, and the four-seat tables can be pushed together. Nine writers call it clean and none says otherwise; five put that down to how recently it opened. Five call it roomy and none calls it cramped. One describes the layout properly: tables for four, pushed together for a group, which is what a party was doing when they visited. On the atmosphere, five writers say the same word — Jeju. Dry-stone partitions and warm rattan lamps that had one of them looking at the walls through the whole meal; stonework high enough and natural enough to convince; a dyke you would not find in a city, and restful for it. Two note the soft lighting as an invitation to linger, and one adds that the room is not loud enough to interfere with talking. Six say a group would be fine here, but nobody says the largest party they take, or whether it needs arranging in advance.
- Writers keep remarking on how much is laid out for you. Phone charging cables appear in four posts — for both iPhone and Galaxy, kept on a table by the entrance. Aprons in three, high chairs in four, and one writer notes scissors, tongs, a ladle and a bin for shells set out on every table. One found business cards for designated drivers as well, which she read as an invitation to have a drink with dinner. The self-service counter holds not just the side dishes but plates, chilli-vinegar sauce, wasabi, soy, salt and pepper. You order from a tablet at the table, and one writer noticed the wifi QR code displayed on it — she had not known tablets did that, and found it useful given how hard the password usually is to track down. One writer sums the lot up in a line: someone has thought carefully about what a customer might need.
- You can eat here alone, and one writer went specifically to check. At most noodle houses, she explains, a single portion arrives in a bowl; she had heard that here even one portion comes as a pot you simmer yourself, and went straight over to see. It did. The same writer notes that the tablet ordering means nobody has to notice you're on your own — you order from the table and that is that. The other fourteen came with someone: two with family, two with a partner, one with a supper club, one with colleagues, and the rest do not say. Since several writers report that even two people cannot finish the bulgogi or the larger noodle pots, the plain clam noodles are the dish to come alone for.
- Six writers call the service kind and not one complains of it. Four mean the owner, two the staff: unfailingly kind; small attentions that made the whole meal feel like being looked after; staff who could not have been friendlier; even the person carrying plates. Three record what was actually done for them: the writer with the clam noodles was told she could start straight away and did; the one with the noodle set was walked through when to add the ingredients; the one taking food home found the side dishes boxed by type. One reports that the plum syrup for the tea is made by the owner. Another, reflecting on the name, writes that the owner seems to think of the place not as a restaurant but as a home island house — though the paragraph that follows is the restaurant's own copy, which that writer labelled as taken from its Naver listing.
What 15 bloggers said
We read all 15 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (13) and “Clean” (9).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Free refills | 11 of 15 posts |
|---|---|
| Complimentary starter | 10 of 15 posts |
| Complimentary tea or drink | 7 of 15 posts |
| Discount offered | 5 of 15 posts |
| Phone charging | 4 of 15 posts |
| High chairs | 4 of 15 posts |
| Parking capacity | 4 of 15 posts |
| Self-order screen | 3 of 15 posts |
| Review event | 2 of 15 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 2 of 15 posts |
| Coffee served | 2 of 15 posts |
| Prepped daily | 1 of 15 posts |
| Takeout | 1 of 15 posts |
| Wi-Fi | 1 of 15 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 1 of 15 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 15 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 jogaetang (service) (조개탕 (서비스)) — 10 of 15 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
9 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 9 of 15 posts |
|---|
You can park in front, but only for four or five cars. The four writers who counted agree — four to five, five, about four. When it is full, three send you to the Jinan public car park three minutes' walk away; one of them, having mentioned the five spaces out front, recommends the public lot first anyway. Nobody reports failing to park — though only three of the fifteen came by car, and none of those three came at a busy hour. One writer reckons access is decent for this part of the Byeongjeom commercial strip. Exactly one person discusses public transport: it is easy enough to reach, they say, so come by bus if you plan to drink. Which stop, or how far from Byeongjeom station, nobody writes. For landmarks, writers give a block behind the Jinan-dong Starbucks, near the Hwanam apartment junction, and behind the Huimangchan hospital.
Who came, and with whom
| Came by car | 3 of 15 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 2 of 15 posts |
| Date | 2 of 15 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 15 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 15 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
Not one writer says which floor it is on, or whether there are steps to get in. Every "1F" in these fifteen posts comes from the check-in widget's address line or from a copied information block, not from anyone standing at the door. A copied address is not an observation. Two writers describe the outside and say only that the sign is clear and easy to spot, and that a live-fish truck unloads clams out front; neither mentions a step, a stair or a door. Whether there is an upstairs, a lip at the entrance, which way the door opens — nothing. The registered address is a ground-floor unit, which suggests no stairs; but that is the register talking, and nobody who went confirmed it.
Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold and step do not appear once across the fifteen posts. That is not the same as there being none; it is that we could not check. What we do know is that there are high chairs — four writers saw them, one listing them alongside the charging cables and the aprons. But not one post describes actually coming with a child: all four merely noticed the chairs, one remarking that a child would have loved the prawns and another that it looks like an easy place to bring one. Whether there is a baby-changing table, or anything for a child beyond the cutlet, nobody says.
Not one writer describes the toilets from having seen them. The phrase "separate men's and women's" does appear once, but inside a header block that also recites takeaway, delivery, bookings, wifi, group dining and high chairs — the shape of a copied listing — so we have not counted it. Inside the restaurant or out in the building, how many, which way to go: not a line in fifteen posts. For the same reason we have not counted bookings or delivery — outside that one block, nobody records reserving a table or ordering in. Takeaway we did count, because one writer actually carried food home and describes it being packed carefully, the side dishes boxed separately.
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 themselves3 of 15 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way12 of 15 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 10 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Half of the thirty confirmed posts were removed: they were about other branches. Fourteen describe the Hyangnam branch and one the Pohang branch. Not one of the fifteen carries our address, and all six that had check-ins had checked in somewhere else. Four of them are not reviews at all but explainers written after an MBC programme featured the Hyangnam branch, telling readers where to find it; one is a feng-shui analysis of a lottery shop in Hyangnam that mentions the restaurant in passing; one is only a link inside a post about a different restaurant in Bongdam. One is a Hyangnam review whose hashtags claim Byeongjeom — hashtags are not addresses. With a name this long and three branches, the branch is the only thing that separates them. The fifteen that remain are fifteen people, all of whom went to this branch. They cover only February to September 2026, so the seasons have not come round once.
- Only two writers say how hot it is, and they disagree. One, eating the monkfish bulgogi, describes a sauce that is deep without being aggressive, and mild enough that they never tired of it. The other, eating the pollack with bean sprouts, describes sweat on the forehead and a heat that kept pulling them back. That may be the difference between two dishes rather than two palates, but we cannot tell — nobody compared the same dish. And nothing at all is written about whether the heat can be adjusted or dialled down on request. The word for pleasantly hot recurs — nicely spicy, hot with the char behind it, hot and clean — but those phrases do not tell you how hot. The dumplings are the one clear datum: the kimchi ones, says one writer, are hot for anyone who cannot take chilli.
- Here is what nobody wrote, and so we cannot answer. Whether anyone ever queues — not one of the fifteen records waiting, and only one remarks that the room was quiet, probably because lunch was over. That is not the same as saying you never wait. Whether the table is yours for a fixed time, whether a dog is welcome, where the ingredients come from: nothing. One writer photographed the origin board and did not copy down a single line of it. Two posts mention television features, but both are about the Hyangnam branch or the brand as a whole; none claims this branch appeared. And seven months is all we have — one price has already moved inside that window, the clam noodles from ₩12,000 to ₩13,000, so others may have too.
Sources (15)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 219 candidate posts we opened 99 and kept 15 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.