Gilpost · Jinan-gun, Jinan-eup
Cafe
Cafe Gonggan 153
카페공간153 A hanok behind Jinan county hall where the county's first coffee roastery shares a room with an independent bookshop
Data as of · Published ·
Gonggan 153 is a café and an independent bookshop inside a renovated hanok in the back lanes behind Jinan county hall. One writer puts the house at close to a hundred years old; another says it is an L-shaped building from the colonial period. Six posts call it the first place in Jinan to roast its own beans — the owner drove a pink coffee truck around the country before settling in his home town, and that truck now sits in the front yard as a photo spot. Twenty-three of the twenty-five write about the bookshop, Chaekbang Saram, in the inner room. The signatures are the Himalaya Mannyeonseol and the black-soybean latte, around ₩6,000 a glass. One drink per person is the rule. A retriever lives in the yard, and the toilet is outside, across that yard. There is a free public car park in the lane. The posts we read run from April 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 전북특별자치도 진안군 진안읍 당산길 26-2 26-2 Dangsan-gil, Jinan-eup, Jinan-gun, Jeonbuk-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1428-5536 |
| Typical spend | ₩6,000 – ₩7,000 |
| Floor area | 67 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 14 posts: 4 wrote Weekends 11:00–19:00, 3 wrote Weekdays 10:00–18:30, 2 wrote 10:00–18:00.
| Open | 10:00–18:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Weekends | 11:00–19:00 4 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | Weekdays | 10:00–18:30 3 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | Tuesday | 10:00–18:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | Wednesday | 10:00–18:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | Thursday | 10:00–18:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | Friday | 10:00–18:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–18:30 2 of 14 posts last seen 2025-11 |
| Open | Sunday | 11:00–19:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2025-11 |
| Open | Tuesday | 10:00–18:30 2 of 14 posts last seen 2025-11 |
| Open | Saturday | 10:00–19:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2025-11 |
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–18:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2025-07 |
| Closed | 격주 일·월요일 4 of 8 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 매월 넷째 일·월요일 3 of 8 posts last seen 2025-07 |
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
- What people write about here is not the coffee but the books — twenty-three of twenty-five. An independent bookshop, Chaekbang Saram, occupies the inner room. Its stock is for sale, so it stays in that room (three posts say they were told as much). The café side keeps a separate shelf you may simply read from, and three writers did. Four note the children's books; one found the shelf recurated for Christmas. Only one person, though, records actually buying a book.
- A retriever lives in the yard — nine posts mention it, mostly fondly: it likes people, it does not bark, it escorted one writer to the toilet and back. One family's children played with it for a long while. Not everyone was pleased, though — one was startled when it came out of the shrubs, and another, who is wary of dogs without their owner beside them, kept her distance and photographed it from across the yard. Since the toilet is across that yard, you will pass the dog.
- The window seats are the point — seven posts. Being a hanok, it looks onto a garden at the front and another at the back, with green coming in through glass set in wooden sliding frames. One writer invokes Ghibli; another says looking at the small garden was the whole afternoon; a third recommends the counter facing the back yard. The exposed rafters get a mention, and so does the creaking floor. Six write about the outdoor seats too — one found the eaves kept her dry through a downpour, another photographed the back yard and fled the heat.
- It is a small house. Three call it tight — the size of an ordinary country home, not many seats. One disagrees, having expected less. One notes most tables are for two; one notes there is a larger table as well. It does fill: one writer watched it start to at noon, another had to settle for a spot by the counter because the inner room was taken, and wrote down which seat she had wanted. Seven call it quiet — but that is the quiet of a room with space left in it.
- One drink per person — three posts, one of them quoting the reason given: this is a café that concentrates on coffee. A fourth noticed a line on the wall to the same effect. At ₩6,000 for a signature and ₩6,000–7,000 for dessert, two people start at ₩12,000. Nobody calls it expensive, and one writer says the signatures are priced kindly. One notes local vouchers and government relief funds are accepted; another notes Zero Pay.
- Of the six who write about sweetness, four say there isn't much — the signature is balanced by its cream rather than sugared, the mugwort latte is smooth without being sweet, the brownie deliberately isn't (so the ice cream doesn't have to fight it), and the castella is the better for it beside coffee. The other two came for the sugar and got it. For a place that puts cream on most things, nobody calls it heavy — one writer specifically says the cream latte was clean rather than rich.
- Eight say they will come back, and four already have. The returners are the more specific: one went twice in a single trip to Maisan; a regular of nearly ten years describes her order (something with cream, then a drip or an americano — two cups, every time); a third drops in now and then for tea. The ones promising to return tend to add the distance: if it were near home, one says; if I lived in Jinan I would stamp a card here daily, says another.
What 25 bloggers said
We read all 25 in full. The most common claims are “Would return” (8) and “Quiet” (7).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Sweet | yes 2 · no 4 |
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Things you can check on site
| Books to read | 23 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Second floor | 10 of 25 posts |
| Resident dog or cat | 9 of 25 posts |
| Large windows | 7 of 25 posts |
| Outdoor terrace seating | 6 of 25 posts |
| Toilet outside | 4 of 25 posts |
| One dish per person | 3 of 25 posts |
| Takes reservations | 3 of 25 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 2 of 25 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 2 of 25 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 Himalaya Mannyeonseol (히말라야 만년설) — 9 of 25 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
Sweet things
To drink
Parking
17 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 17 of 25 posts |
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You come by car, and there is a free public car park across the lane — seventeen posts say so, one of them timing the walk at ten seconds, another counting fifty spaces, a third putting it two minutes from the county hall. On weekends it fills: one writer found nothing free and ended up in a gap between two buildings further along. Another simply lists the alley as an option alongside the car park. Fourteen drove themselves.
Who came, and with whom
| Came by car | 14 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 6 of 25 posts |
| With a friend | 5 of 25 posts |
| Came with children | 3 of 25 posts |
| Date | 3 of 25 posts |
| Solo visit | 2 of 25 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Second floor | 10 of 25 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 4 (of 25 posts read) |
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 1 (of 25 posts read) |
There is a loft, and getting up there means booking it. Nine posts mention it: two call it the upper floor, three say it runs by reservation, and two found it roped off. One regular admits she has told herself every visit that she will book it next time and still has not. One post says it suits four people. None of the nine writes about having been up there — what we know is that it exists, and that you do not simply wander in.
Whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in, we do not know. The words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, step and threshold appear nowhere in the twenty-five. In a converted hanok that is worth worrying about — writers mention a creaking wooden floor, glass sliding doors in wooden frames, and a step stool to climb on, all of which suggest the levels are not even. But suggestion is not something we can count. What is certain is that the toilet is outside, across the yard (four posts), and that much is worth knowing in advance.
The toilet is outside the building — four writers say so. You go out, across the inner yard, to a blue door. That is what renovating a hanok gets you. One notes it is not separated by sex, adding in the same breath that it was kept clean; a second also calls it clean. Nobody says what the walk is like in rain or in winter. It is rare for a café's toilet to be written about at all — here you have to cross a courtyard, so everyone noticed.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet. 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 themselves4 of 25 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way21 of 25 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 posts we gathered, 5 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 4 |
| 2025-10 | 4 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 8 |
What we do not know
- Nobody writes about getting here without a car. Not one of the twenty-five mentions a bus or a taxi, and fourteen drove. The nearest thing to a bearing: two minutes on foot from the county hall, ten minutes from the Maisan car park, fifteen minutes from Maisan by car. Almost everyone here is a visitor, and not one of them says how you reach Jinan town in the first place.
- Nobody writes about queueing. The closest are two accounts of walking in to find the room taken: one settled for a table by the counter because the inner room was full, another watched it fill after noon. In a house with a dozen-odd seats the failure mode is probably no free table rather than a line at the door — but nobody says so, so that is our guess, not theirs. One writer found the car park full on a weekend afternoon.
- The hours changed, and they are still disputed. Sixteen posts give them. The 2025 posts open at eleven; the September 2026 posts open at ten. Closing lands on six, half past six or seven depending on the post, with several splitting the weekend out. One writer caught the contradiction on the spot: the sandwich board outside said eleven, the online listing said ten, and she arrived at noon to find it open. Another suspects the bookshop's events move things around and says to check first; a third just writes that the hours are fluid. Even the most recent post, from September 2026, ends by telling you to look it up before you go.
- The closing days have moved too. Three posts say the fourth Sunday and Monday of the month — all three from July 2025. Four say every other Sunday and Monday — all four from September 2026. A November 2025 post in between says there is no regular closing day at all. Something changed and we cannot say to what — between them they agree only that Sundays and Mondays are the risk.
- It was rebuilt in August 2026. The shop's own post describes a roasting room, extra seating and an exhibition wall added in the front yard, and a new 5kg Probat roaster. A customer confirms it: someone returning in September 2026 writes that it had changed and changed for the better. So the seating and the layout described in the 2025 posts may no longer be what you find. Twenty-two of the twenty-five we read were written before the work.
- The dog has two names. Two posts call it Gowon, one calls it Wollang, and the other six just say retriever. Whether that is one dog or two, we do not know — Wollang is also an old name for Jinan, so either is plausible.
- One post declares its sponsorship, and that post is not in our count — written by a county tourism-association supporter, it never says what was drunk and lists a tiramisu among the popular items. No other post mentions a tiramisu. Of the twenty-five we did count, four state they paid their own way and twenty-one say nothing. One further post turned out to be the shop's own, identifiable by the blog name and handle, and was excluded.
- These are not twenty-five different people. Two of the twenty-five come from the same blog, eighteen months apart. And five say they came because the place appeared on a dating show — one had no plan to visit until she searched the filming locations the night before; another found the seat the contestants used and noted, comparing it to the broadcast, that the chair had been replaced. How much of this evidence is an after-effect of that broadcast, we could not measure.
- Two phone numbers appear. Eight posts give one; only the shop's own post gives another. The number the visitors use is a Korean privacy-forwarding line, so both may well be live — but we did not verify that. We list the one the visitors use.
Sources (25)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 차로 올라가서 별과 일출을 보는 곳, 진안 부귀산전망대 2026-09-27 · 고기먹는 캠퍼 · via Daum
- 진안 놀거리 카페 추천｜직접 로스팅하는 공간153 히말라야 만년설 후기 2026-09-25 · blue jazz denim _ 뫼르소나 · via Daum
- [진안 카페 ☕] '공간153': 한옥 분위기에 반한 북카페 ✨ (내돈내산 솔직후기) 2026-09-17 · 좋은 밤 좋은 꿈 · via Daum
- 전북 진안군 서점 겸 카페 - 커피공간153 2026-09-15 · Dancing in the Moonlight
- 진안카페 추천 [공간153] 2026-09-13 · everyday2015 · via Daum
- 진안 마이산 여행 중 두 번이나 찾은 카페 공간 153 2026-09-11 · ✈️ 우리두리 데이또
- [진안 카페 추천] 마이산 여행 후 방문하기 좋은 카페 공간153 2026-09-07 · 꽁꽁 얼어붙은 세계 여행 · via Daum
- 여름방학끝 2026-09-06 · 으엥엥 · via Daum
- 전북 진안읍 군상리 카페 공간 153/ 커피맛집 2026-08-18 · 강서구 대저동 득성부동산
- 마이산<진안<2026년 여름휴가 2026-08-15 · 동행부동산 (유니시티 전문) · via Daum
- 진안 커피 맛집 카페 공간 153 다녀옴 2026-07-25 · 히스기야맨 · via Daum
- 카페 공간153 l 진안카페 한옥로스팅카페 한옥카페 책방카페 책읽기.... 2026-05-15 · 김밥로드, 지금 출발합니다!
- [진안 카페] 맛으로 승부_카페공간153 2025-12-31 · 순간의 조각들
- 전북 진안 최초 로스팅 카페 공간 153 2025-12-28 · 제이컬리
- [내돈내산][진안 카페] 진안 최초의 로스팅 전문점, 카페 공간153(ft. .... 2025-11-24 · 웰컴쀼의 다이어리
- 진안군에 위치한 맛과 멋이 공존하는 '공간153'카페 방문후기 2025-11-20 · 시골처녀 님의 블로그
- 진안 여행 | 카페 공간153 고즈넉한 한옥 힐링 카페 2025-10-27 · 써니의 일상 • 게임
- <진안 카페 공간153 & 독립서점 책방사람> 책과 커피를 좋아하시는 분.... 2025-10-22 · thurs and ho
- 커피트럭 품은 진안 한옥 카페 공간153 + 독립서점 책방사람 2025-10-20 · 유랑책방
- 진안 카페 공간153, 독립 서점과 함께한 특별한 커피 여행(나는솔로 .... 2025-10-08 · Moments of Today | 오늘의 순간을 담다
- [진안 카페] 카페 공간153: 나는솔로 24기 순자 영철도 방문한 독립서.... 2025-07-29 · 오늘 하루 어땠나굥
- 진안 작은서점 그리고 맛있는 커피집 카페공간153 2025-07-18 · 사랑더하기♡
- 진안 가볼만한 감성 한옥 카페 공간153 북카페 사진 스팟 가득 2025-07-01 · 으엥엥
- {진안여행 02}아주 작은 동네의 고즈넉한 카페 맛집, 카페공간153(나.... 2025-07-01 · 케일리의 지구 살아가기
- 진안군 카페, 아늑한 예쁜 공간에서 커피 한잔, 북카페, "카페공간153.... 2025-04-19 · TREVEL YUMMY 전국 유명 맛집,명소,산행일기
Of 291 candidate posts we opened 62 and kept 25 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.