Gilpost · Gimhae-si, Jinyeong-eup
Noodle house
Yeongguksu
영국수 A four-hours-a-day noodle house in Gimhae, run by a retired couple, where the hot bowl and the cold one come together for one price
Data as of · Published ·
A noodle house on an outlying road in Jinyeong, Gimhae, up past the local park. It opens for four hours a day and serves lunch only — eleven to three, last orders at half two, closed Wednesdays. The menu is short: a hot bowl in anchovy broth, a cold bowl in chilli dressing, the two together in a pair of smaller bowls, a rice bowl with soybean paste and summer radish, a pancake of whatever vegetable is in season, and potato dumplings. In summer a cold radish-water noodle is added. Everything cost ₩6,000 through 2025; in 2026 it became ₩7,000. A couple opened it five years ago, he retired from the army and she from teaching, by their own account, and they keep the garden out front themselves — half the posts we read talk about that garden before they talk about the noodles. It appeared on a KBS programme in 2024, and carries the city's own restaurant designation on the wall. You come by car. The posts we read run from October 2024 to August 2026.
The basics
| Address | 경상남도 김해시 진영읍 하계로 375-17, 1층 375-17 Hagye-ro, Jinyeong-eup, Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do |
|---|---|
| Typical spend | ₩6,000 – ₩7,000 |
| Floor area | 99 m² |
| Status | In business |
0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 19 posts: 17 wrote Daily 11:00–15:00.
| Open | Daily | 11:00–15:00 17 of 19 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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| Open | Daily | 11:00–14:30 2 of 19 posts last seen 2024-12 |
| Last order | 14:30 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-08 | |
| Closed | Wednesday 19 of 19 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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
- The price has risen once, and before it did, everything on the menu cost the same. Fourteen posts from October 2024 to December 2025 give ₩6,000 flat — the hot bowl, the cold bowl, the two together, the rice bowl, the pancake, the summer noodle, all of it (the dumplings alone were ₩5,000). Three posts from April, June and August 2026 give ₩7,000 for the pair and for the pancake. The dumplings are still ₩5,000. A large portion adds ₩1,000. The flatness of it is what struck people. One notes that a half-and-half costs a thousand won more everywhere else and that such places are hard to find now; one could not quite believe two bowls for seven thousand; one put two bowls for six thousand in her title; one reports four dishes for twenty-four thousand with something like alarm. Not one post calls it dear and eighteen say the opposite. Six mention the national and municipal "fair price" certification on the wall. Two writers try to account for it: one guesses that the owners own the building; the other passes on what she was told — that he left the army and she left teaching, and they opened a cheap noodle shop five years ago as a kind of service. We have not verified either — the second is said by one post only.
- Eight posts write about the couple who run this place and all eight are warm. But what is worth counting here is not the word "kind" — it is what they did. · They would not let a soldier pay for the dumplings. The writer had brought her son, in uniform, and on asking why, was told they never do. The same post records being seen off at the door and having a family photograph taken in the garden. · They picked fruit from the garden for a departing customer and peeled it for her — two kinds she had never tasted, and sweet. · They gave away the stock's secret — bringing it up and down over the flame three times, to take the fishiness out. · They walked a customer round the garden after her meal, explaining the things he had made in it. · Asked on the phone about closing time, they told her to come by half past two. She was the last customer that day and records no impatience. · Asked what the pickle was, they answered. The rest is a line each. Not one post reports poor service. One notes three people working in the kitchen, and two that it is run by a married couple.
- The garden is half of this place. Twelve of the twenty-five write about it before they write about the noodles, and they overlap on what is in it: heart-shaped stepping stones (three), a stone carved with a line about this beautiful planet (two), a small pond (three), two dolls of an old couple taking a selfie (one), an arch hung with a sign about entwined branches (one), and a stone bearing four Chinese characters that one writer worked out reads, backwards, as "let us love". Six posts list what is growing. Much of it recurs: small watermelons slung in netting from an arch so they never touch the ground (two), pomegranate (two), melon, grapes, lotus, balsam (two), cockscomb, snow-on-the-mountain, basil, Solomon's seal, goji flowers — and in autumn, maples across the front yard. One writer returns for the seasons: she came once with a colleague, twice more with friends, and means to keep coming as the garden changes. Two posts say the couple keep it themselves, which is why several reach for comparisons outside the trade: a pretty café out of town rather than a noodle shop; a grandmother's yard. Two note tables outside, one regretting the heat that day and supposing people eat out there when it is cooler — no post records having done so. Four write about the view of the yard from the window seats.
- The point of the food here is that it does not shout — and the people who count that a virtue and the people who find it thin are not quite the same people. The clearest statement of it: most noodle houses win you over with a strong sauce or a thick, aromatic broth; this one refuses to fight on that ground, which is the hardest ground a noodle house can choose — and it works. Others in the same vein note the absence of MSG, a clean bowl anyone could eat, the kind of thing older diners like. One records a sign in the room: no seasonings, the ingredients speak for themselves. The other side appears inside those same posts — that some palates may find it thin, and that some people do say so. Both writers liked it and flagged the possibility anyway. On the cold bowl's heat they divide: four say there is little, sweetness leading, children welcome; two found it stronger than expected; and one wanted more of it. What is actually hot is not the cold bowl but the pot of seasoned soy served alongside the hot one — one writer warns parents to keep it back, another calls it on the spicy side. A hotter chilli paste, one notes, comes if you ask.
- Three side dishes come with the bowl, and you fetch more yourself. Eleven posts describe it. What comes is cabbage kimchi, pickled radish and a pot of seasoned soy — and the same three sit on the self-service counter. One writer finds the simplicity exactly right. Three place that counter by the door, one at the back of the room; whether it moved, or there are two, we do not know. The water cooler is beside it, so water is self-service too (four posts). Two describe how it is kept: lidded containers with tongs, and a sign asking you to take only what you will eat. The kimchi is properly fermented and sharp, by one account; the radish neither too sweet nor too sour, and pickled in something one writer could not identify. You pay before you eat (four posts) — one fills in an order slip, another orders and pays at the table. There is not one mention of a screen or a tablet in any of the twenty-five; two note the large menu board on the wall.
- Five writers expected less for the money and were wrong. The plainest of them says she assumed a cheap bowl would be a small one, and it was not. One left food — she was startled by how much came when she ordered one of each, and could not finish the hot bowl. What makes it feel large is the shape of the pair. Six posts point it out: it is not one bowl divided but two smaller bowls served separately — a little under a full portion each, which somehow adds up to more than one. One looked over at the next table and saw two bowls set out on either side. One writer recommends going in twos and sharing instead — order the hot and the cold separately and split them onto side plates, for the sweet-against-savoury and the hot-against-cold. There is a large portion too, at ₩1,000 more; one hungry writer paid ₩8,000 for it in April 2026.
- What hangs on the walls is half the story people tell about this place. Four write about the autographs — a framed signature from the short-track skater Choi Min-jeong in three, a note left by the actor Myung Kye-nam in one. One writer looks harder at the frame: it does not look like the usual printed photograph a celebrity leaves behind, but like something made officially. What he means by that, we could not establish. The broadcast and the civic plaques come up too. Eight mention the KBS programme it appeared on in July 2024, and four that the presenter ate the half-and-half — which is why one post calls that dish by his name. Seven mention the city's restaurant designation, five of them adding that it is the only noodle house the city has chosen, and two that it was chosen in both 2023 and 2025. Six mention the national and municipal fair-price certification. One notes that the city's tourism office had the plaque made afterwards. All of this is copied off the wall; we have not checked any of it independently. A regular recorded what the broadcast did to the place: the rush afterwards was, he heard, punishing, and two months on it was still busier than before — the rice bowl had gone by the time he arrived, and his order closed the kitchen for the day.
- Four posts are return visits and six more promise one — and above those sits the regular who wrote five of them, describing four or five visits a year on his work route, calling it his local, and noting that he has written it up repeatedly. His five span October 2024 to November 2025. The four returners each noticed something different. One came three times in a year — once with a colleague, twice more with friends, and means to keep coming as the garden turns. One came on New Year's Day and found it quieter than she remembered. One had been not long after it opened, found it awkwardly out of the way, and came back only after seeing it on television, with her parents. One passes through for work three times a week and eats almost always alone, always the rice bowl. None of the four says it has got worse. The three posts written after the price went from ₩6,000 to ₩7,000 still call it cheap. But we have no post from anyone returning after the rise, so whether anything else changed with it, we cannot say.
What 22 bloggers said
We read all 22 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (18) and “Friendly staff” (8).
What they liked
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 6 · no 3 |
|---|---|
| Spicy | yes 2 · no 4 |
Things you can check on site
| Free refills | 11 of 22 posts |
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| Large windows | 4 of 22 posts |
| Signed celebrity photos | 4 of 22 posts |
| High chairs | 3 of 22 posts |
| Outdoor terrace seating | 2 of 22 posts |
| Independent, not a chain | 2 of 22 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 banban guksu (반반국수 (비빔국수 + 잔치국수)) — 18 of 22 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
Parking
8 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 8 of 22 posts |
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There is nothing you would call a car park — there is open ground in front and a wide verge. But there is plenty of it. Eight posts discuss parking and they look, at first, to disagree: two state flatly that there is no car park, and six that there is space enough not to worry. They are not in conflict. Both of the two go straight on to explain: park on the road beside it; pull onto the verge when you see the building — this is not a busy road and it is a wide one, so parking is no trouble at all. Others describe what they did: pulled into whatever open ground was free; parked below the building and walked up a path she found charming; lined up on the empty land out front. One calls it small-scale parking in front of the shop. It is not a marked car park, and it is worth knowing that before you arrive. How many cars fit, or whether it fills at the lunch peak, nobody counted.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 4 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| Came by car | 4 of 22 posts |
| With a friend | 2 of 22 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 22 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
It is at street level, but no post describes stairs. The licence puts it on the ground floor, and one writer calls the building a white two-storey house — which reads as the shop below and a floor above, though nobody says what is up there or how you would get to it. One likens the building to a private house; two call it a plain white one. Whether the doorway is level with the yard or a step up, we could not establish — though one writer does describe a path up from where she parked. There is no mention of a basement.
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. No threshold, no ramp, no door width, in any of the twenty-five. But several describe the way in, and it is worth knowing: more than one writer calls the path through the garden to the door a path of stepping stones — heart-shaped ones at the entrance, in one account; a stone path she found calming, in another. And one, having parked, describes a path up from the car to the building. How many stones, whether there is a level route alongside, whether there is a lip at the door — nobody writes. So this is not "you cannot" but "we do not know" — with the caveat that it may well not be a flat paved approach. If it matters, ring: they do answer the phone.
Not one of the twenty-five mentions a toilet — inside the room or out in the building, separated by sex or not. These are posts that inventory the self-service counter, the children's spoons and the planting in the garden; on this one thing they are all silent. That is not the same as there being none. It means nobody wrote it down.
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 themselves8 of 22 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way14 of 22 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 24 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 | 1 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 3 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Twenty-five posts, but twenty-one people. One blogger wrote five of them — October 2024, November 2024, April 2025, June 2025 and November 2025, each a separate visit eating something different. He says himself that work takes him past four or five times a year and that this is his local. Five posts, one person: worth subtracting when you read the numbers below as a count of people. Five of thirty candidates were removed. One carried another restaurant's listing ID. One says nothing about this shop at all — it is an account of a wetlands museum, and our shop appears only in a link title at the foot of it. And three were not counted as visits: a ten-restaurant round-up (a table of addresses and prices, written in the register of compiled material, with no date and no account of eating), a month-long diary (six check-ins, two sentences about us), and the same writer's second posting of the same visit on another platform — the first line of the blog post is the title of the other one, and the dishes and observations are identical, so counting both would turn one visit into two. Not one post declares a sponsorship, and seven state that they paid. The other eighteen say nothing. There is no sign of a commissioned batch — the posts are spread across twenty-three months, never more than three in a month, and they read nothing like each other.
- Not one post explains how to get here without a car. No bus, no station, no walk in minutes, in any of the twenty-five. What there is instead is one flat statement: you cannot get here without a car — and she means to come back anyway. The rest place it by landscape: out on the edge of town, along a country road, up past the park, at the foot of a hill whose walkers drop in on their way past. One puts it ten minutes by car from the Bonghwa village memorial; another came after visiting it. One stopped on the way to Busan; one passes three times a week for work. Read it as a place you drive to.
- It is open four hours a day, and that is the first thing to know. Twenty-one posts give the hours and nearly all agree: eleven until three, with last orders at half past two (twelve say so). Closed Wednesdays — all twenty-one that mention it say Wednesday, without exception. One writer records having turned up on a Wednesday once and found it shut. Two posts put the closing time differently, at half past two, one of them urging you to check. Both appear to have taken the last-order time for the closing time — the other nineteen have three o'clock with last orders at half two, and a writer who arrived at quarter past two in April 2026 had rung ahead and been told to come by half past. She was the last customer that day. What runs out before the clock does is the food. A regular visiting two months after the television broadcast writes that his own order was the last one and closed the kitchen early, and the rice bowl had gone before that. Another writer was turned away from the same dish. Come late and the door may be open while the thing you wanted is not.
- Six posts record a queue or a full room; three record having it easy. What separates them is the hour. Everyone who waited came at the heart of lunch: nearly full just before noon, with a queue forming while she waited for her food; a line outside that convinced one writer she had found the real thing; a full room on a weekday, with people waiting. Those who had it easy came late: a late lunch and room to spare; quarter past two and the last customer of the day; and New Year's Day, quieter than the same writer's earlier visit had been. There is a way of waiting. One writer explains it: there is a paper list by the door — write the last digits of your phone number and how many of you there are, and you go in in order. A sheet of paper, not an app. No post says they take bookings. They do answer the phone, though: one writer rang to ask about closing time and got an answer. A queue here does not seem to mean a long wait. Three give the same reason: noodles are eaten fast and the tables turn; and one adds that there were three people working in the kitchen, so the food came quickly.
- There are high chairs, and children's things are set out where you can take them. Three posts say so — one counting about two high chairs and noting that spoons come if you ask; one taking them for granted; and the fullest of the three listing side plates, spoons, forks and scissors laid out at the front. The scissors are hers alone; so is the count of chairs. Two note how many families come — a dish children eat, and a room of every age. One thing to know if you are feeding a child: the pot of seasoned soy that comes with the hot bowl is the spicy element, and one writer advises keeping it aside for them. There is no mention of a play area or a nappy-changing table.
- Four writers missed the summer menu, and it is the commonest disappointment here. The cold radish-water noodle, the chilled hot bowl and their pairing run in summer only, and not one post gives a start or end date. What we can piece together: late April was too early, and she settled for the pair; late May too early, and she was told so; by early June it was on the board; in mid-June a writer ate it, noting the season had begun; and in mid-October a regular arrived wanting exactly that and found it finished. Somewhere between June and October is as close as we can get. If it is what you are going for, ring and ask — they answer the phone, and one writer got a clear answer about closing time that way. One post says the seasonal pancake is a meat one on Fridays. Only that one says it, and we could not confirm it.
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Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 김해 진영 맛집 금병공원 맛집 점심장사만 하는 국수 맛집 " 영국수 " 2026-05-23 · midoridori · via Daum
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- 여름한정 열무국수 잔치국수 강된장 열무 비빔밥 계절전 - 영국수 [.... 2025-06-17 · 디지털 키드, 디키!
- 계절전, 잔치국수, 비빔국수 - 영국수 [김해 진영 착한가게 김해시 .... 2025-06-16 · 디지털 키드, 디키!
- 자극 없이 든든한 국수 한 끼 김해 영국수 가볼만한 곳 2025-06-08 · "온전히, 유나스럽게."
- 김해 진영 국수맛집 영국수 착한가격 잔치국수, 비빔국수 2025-03-23 · 소소한 일상과 후기 꿀정보
- TV동네한바퀴 김해 진영 국수 맛집 영국수 2024-12-03 · 태루의 보통날
- [김해]진영 국수맛집으로 유명한 영국수 후기 2024-10-14 · 라이크한쓰
Of 136 candidate posts we opened 48 and kept 22 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.