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Gyodong Jjamppong Osanjeom
교동짬뽕 오산점 Osan branch of the Gyodong Jjamppong chain — a six-table shop on a main road in Wondong, where the rice to finish your broth is free
Data as of · Published ·
A jjamppong shop on the ground floor of a main road in Osan's Wondong, fifteen minutes' walk from the station. It is the Osan branch of a chain called Gyodong Jjamppong, and it is small — about six tables of four. Bowls run from ₩7,000 for the black-bean noodles to ₩12,000 for the beef jjamppong, and rice is free from the help-yourself bar, to be tipped into what is left of the broth. Tuesday to Sunday, half past ten until half past eight, closed Mondays, with a weekday break from three to half four. Check the address before you go — there is another shop in the same city with exactly the same name and branch name.
The basics
| Address | 경기도 오산시 경기대로 213 (원동,101호) 213 Gyeonggi-daero, Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 031-372-2528 |
| Typical spend | ₩7,000 – ₩12,000 |
| Floor area | 82 m² |
| Status | In business |
2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 6 posts: 6 wrote Daily 10:30–20:30.
| Open | Daily | 10:30–20:30 6 of 6 posts last seen 2025-08 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | Weekdays | 15:00–16:30 4 of 5 posts last seen 2025-08 |
| Break | Weekends | 없음 3 of 5 posts last seen 2025-08 |
| Closed | Monday 5 of 5 posts last seen 2025-08 |
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
- Rice is free, and all six posts describe the help-yourself bar — five of them make a point of the rice. Pickled radish, raw onion, black-bean paste and kimchi as much as you like, with disposable aprons, hair ties and toothpicks beside them. On the rice four writers say the same thing: tip it into the broth at the end. One, too full after ordering a large bowl, passes the advice on rather than taking it. The apron, another notes, is insurance against splashes.
- It is small — five posts say so. The two who count the tables agree on the number: about six, mostly fours with a two among them. The others put it as cramped, as not enormous but the right size, as not wide but clean and comfortable. Nobody calls it loud or stuffy. One writer says outright that it is clean; another remarks on how the table condiments and cutlery are kept.
- The way you order changed during 2025. Five posts from March to May all describe a screen at every table for ordering and paying where you sit. Then a returning customer in August 2025 writes that the screens are gone, and that you settle up with the owner at the counter after eating. The same post wonders whether the person at the till has changed. That is the most recent post we have, so we cannot say which it is now. Either way there is a large menu board on the wall, which older customers use in preference to the screen. The sets for one and two, though, are only on the screen — worth knowing if that is what you came for.
- Five posts say the portions are large, and they overlap on particulars: both the noodle dishes enormous; ₩7,000 buying a startling amount; the beef bowl arriving in a basin; the mini sweet-and-sour pork being about what a small is elsewhere; two people nearly failing to finish a bowl and a mini between them. A large costs ₩1,000 more, and the one writer who took it had no room left for the free rice. Nobody says there was too little.
- Nobody calls it expensive, and across the five months we can see, nothing moved. ₩9,000 for the house bowl, ₩7,000 for the black-bean noodles, ₩11,000 for the mini pork: the same in three March 2025 posts and still the same in August, when a returning customer remarks that for all the inflation the menu and the prices were exactly as before. Both writers who discuss price call it good value. The stillness is this shop's, though — the same bowl is ₩11,000 at the shop of the same name on Gasuan-gil, and ₩10,000 at the Gajang branch.
- One of the six is a return visit, and it reports a change for the worse. The writer opens by saying this was a regular haunt and that several recent visits have convinced them the taste has shifted, then names two things: noodles that used to have a slight underdone bite now cooked soft, and a broth that has lost both its body and the particular spice note the chain is known for. They set old and new photographs side by side, judging it by how thickly the broth coats the rice. The same post notes a new face at the till, without knowing whether that means a new owner or a new cook. It still ends by calling this one of the better shops in the chain and popular in town. This, from August 2025, is the most recent post we have; what happened after it we do not know. Of the other five, two say they mean to come back and three say nothing about their own returns.
- The sweet-and-sour pork is the dish most often added here — five of six ordered it, and all five took the mini. Three things recur: how thick the pork is (three posts), a pale thin batter with the chew of glutinous rice flour (three), and no porky smell (two). Two note that the sauce arrives on the side without being asked for, one of them delighted by it. Two report the loin is Korean and butchered on the premises — a line from the shop, which nobody checked. The four sizes run ₩11,000, ₩16,000, ₩21,000 and ₩26,000.
- Three posts say it looks hotter than it is — a red broth that turns out merely bracing; a heat described as pleasant and barely registering, the temperature doing more work than the chilli; the beef version closer to sweet. You choose your level when you order. One writer took two bowls, one hot and one plain, and found little between them. What divides people is not the chilli but the pepper: one finds it strong enough to split opinion and loves it, another thinks it is what makes the bowl.
- Cooking starts after you order. Two posts say so, one adding that the wait is the price of food that is hot and properly textured rather than sitting ready. Nobody complains about the wait, and three describe the pork as having come straight out of the fryer. Two writers copied down the origin board themselves: pork, rice, chilli powder, cabbage and onion Korean; the chilli in the kimchi and the scallops Chinese; the squid Chilean. One of them also notes the licence hanging beside it.
- Two posts talk about the service and both are warm — one about a kind woman running the place, one saying the staff were kind too, from someone who declares themselves intolerant of the opposite. The other four say nothing about it. A post from August 2025 does note a new face at the till, without knowing whether that means a new owner or a new cook; the two kind notices predate it, from March and May.
What 6 bloggers said
We read all 6 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (5) and “Cramped” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Self-order screen | 5 of 6 posts |
|---|---|
| Free refills | 6 of 6 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 2 of 6 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 2 of 6 posts |
| Cooked to order | 2 of 6 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 chapssal deungsim tangsuyuk (찹쌀 등심탕수육) — 5 of 6 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
2 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 2 of 6 posts |
|---|
The shop has no car park of its own; people use a municipal one nearby. Five posts mention it with the first hour free, but three of those are header-block lines and we have not counted them — no account of actually parking. The two we kept describe what the writer did. One names the lot, puts it two minutes away on foot, and copies out the tariff: first hour free, then ₩250 per ten minutes, ₩6,000 for twelve hours, ₩80,000 for a season ticket. The other parked at the same sort of lot and walked three minutes, glad it was close. One writer notes the shop fronts a main road, so there is nowhere to stop outside. How many spaces there are, or whether they fill at the weekend, nobody says.
Who came, and with whom
| Came by car | 2 of 6 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 1 of 6 posts |
| Date | 1 of 6 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
No post describes the way in. The line "first floor" appears in all six, but it is the address printed by the check-in widget, not something anyone looked at; nobody writes about the doorway itself. There is no mention of an upstairs or a basement either. The licence puts it in unit 101 at street level, so there appears to be nothing to climb — but whether the threshold is flush with the pavement or a step up, we could not establish.
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Nothing about a step at the door, a ramp, or which way the door swings, in any of the six. All we know for certain is that it is at street level on a main road. Posts carrying the phrase "wheelchair accessible" did turn up among the candidates, but every one of them was about a different branch — and even there it was a line lifted wholesale from the listing page — so they are out of the count. Silence here means we do not know, not that it cannot be done. If it matters, ring and ask.
Not one of the six mentions a toilet — whether it is inside the room or shared with the building, whether it is separated by sex. Two candidate posts did carry the phrase, but both were about a different branch, and in both it sat in a copied listing block beside the phone number rather than coming from anyone who had used it.
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 nothing either way6 of 6 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-03 | 3 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Twenty-four of thirty candidate posts have been removed, which leaves six posts by six people. The name collides twice over. First, Gyodong Jjamppong is a national chain, and Osan alone holds two other branches — one on Gajangsaneopdong-ro, one on Sumogwon-ro — which between them brought in five posts. Second, and more awkwardly, two shops in Osan both call themselves the Osan branch. One is this one, on Gyeonggi-daero in Wondong; the other is on Gasuan-gil, in Segyo. Three of our six writers flag it themselves: search the name and two results come up, so check the address. It is not a relocation — a March 2025 post already describes two shops, and the prices and phone numbers differ (₩9,000 here against ₩11,000 there). The rest of the removals: three reviews of a meal-kit from a different shop in Suwon, one shop of the same name outside a hospital in Cheonan, one rival jjamppong shop in this same neighbourhood, and one recruitment page that strings together thousands of restaurant names. Every number on this page comes from those six posts and no others.
- Two posts give a walking distance from the station — one says under fifteen minutes from exit 1 at Osan, the other 720 metres from the same exit. Neither says they made that walk themselves; one of them in fact advises using a public car park, since the shop sits on a main road. Not one post mentions a bus. The most useful landmark anyone offers is a Starbucks drive-through across the road.
- Nobody records waiting. No queue, no list, no turning back from a full room, in any of the six. With about six tables you would expect it to fill, but no one describes that happening. It does read as a shop with a lot of delivery, though: one writer found the pavement outside lined with couriers' motorbikes on a weekday evening, and another says the orders never let up while they ate. What both saw was food going out, not people standing in. Two note that everything is cooked to order and may take a little longer — neither minds.
- None of the six declares a sponsorship, and none declares paying either. We read the bodies and the trailing hashtags: no disclosure line, no sponsorship tag, and no assertion of having paid. Six posts, six people — no blogger appears twice. The candidate pool did hold things that looked commissioned (two same-day posts about another branch, an advertisement from a till installer), but those were about other shops and went out on that ground. The six that remain are spread across March, April, May and August 2025 and read nothing like each other: one copies out a car park's tariff, one the origin board, one sets old photographs against new to argue the noodles have changed.
- Five of the six give opening hours and they do not contradict each other: half past ten in the morning until half past eight at night. All five that name a closing day name Monday. The afternoon break runs three to half four, and there is none at the weekend — four posts give the times and three of them say separately that weekends run straight through. Only one flattens it to "every day", and that same post then lists Monday as the closing day, contradicting itself. Nobody records a last-order time. These are this shop's hours — the shop of the same name on Gasuan-gil keeps different ones.
Sources (6)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 맛이 예전과 달라진 것 같은 오산 원동 짬뽕 맛집 교동짬뽕 오산점 2025-08-05 · 행복을 향해 가는 여정의 기록
- 오산 중식맛집 교동짬뽕 공영주차장에서 도보 2분거리 2025-05-12 · 일리 기록장
- 교동짬뽕 오산점 | 원동 배민 맛집 찐 후기 차돌짬뽕 양이 거진 세숫.... 2025-04-04 · 이상해씨 복세편살
- [맛집] 경기 오산 교동짬뽕(오산점) 2025-03-28 · 임빙그레의 일상
- [오산 맛집] 원동 불맛 가득한 짬뽕 맛집 교동짬뽕 오산점 2025-03-18 · The Cacao- 취미부자 리미의 소소한 일상
- 오산역 짬뽕맛집 | 전국 5대 짬뽕 교동짬뽕 오산점 2025-03-09 · 굴뿌남매와 알짜배기 신혼생활 (웨딩·맛집·리뷰)
Of 383 candidate posts we opened 52 and kept 6 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.