Gilpost · Muju-gun, Seolcheon-myeon
Grill houseKorean
Goguryeo Garden
고구려가든 A twenty-year-old country restaurant below the Muju ski resort, where you either grill thick pork belly or take the mountain-greens set
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Goguryeo Garden is a Korean country restaurant on the main road below the entrance to Muju Deogyusan Resort, five minutes down by car. Two writers say it has been there more than twenty years. What you eat here splits two ways: a burner on the table and thick-cut pork belly (nine of the twenty-four), or the house set meal that covers the table in mountain greens (four). In between sit stir-fried pork, mushroom hotpot, short-rib soup and bulgogi, and some of those — the soup, for one — can be ordered for a single person. A large hall with a private room off it, good for sixty or seventy by one count, and eleven writers call it roomy. There is a wide car park in front. The posts we read run from November 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 전북특별자치도 무주군 설천면 만선1로 68 68 Manseon 1-ro, Seolcheon-myeon, Muju-gun, Jeonbuk-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 063-322-9333 as written in the posts 063-322-4456 as registered on the licence |
| Typical spend | ₩14,000 – ₩36,000 |
| Floor area | 159 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 14 posts: 5 wrote Daily 09:00–24:00.
| Open | Daily | 09:00–24:00 5 of 14 posts last seen 2026-02 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Daily | 09:00–21:00 5 of 14 posts last seen 2025-12 |
| Open | Daily | 09:00–21:30 2 of 14 posts last seen 2025-02 |
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 gets written about here is not the main dish but what comes with it — twenty-two of twenty-four. Greens and mushrooms, acorn jelly, fried potato, braised burdock, and in one case silkworm pupae and freshwater snails. Refills are self-service (eight posts), which one writer calls essential for people too shy to ask. Another refilled the lettuce three times. One correction, though: the bar holds the wraps, garlic and bean paste, and staff bring the rest.
- This is a place you come to in numbers. Eleven call it roomy, one puts capacity at sixty or seventy. There is a private room off the hall (four posts), and three of those were seated in it. Eight came as a group, seven with family. On the spacing between tables, though, the accounts diverge: one found it generous enough for groups, while a February visitor found it tight and the room loud. Another, seated in a corner that same month, reports tables pushed together so closely that her husband could not leave without two strangers standing up.
- A table of two cannot order the house set. The mountain-greens set starts at four (four posts); a party of three had to leave it for next time. The stir-fried pork starts at two. Five posts advise phoning ahead, two of them specifically for the set — it may not be available when the room is busy, and one flatly recommends ordering by phone in midwinter. That said, one writer notes there are plenty of single-portion dishes too, the soups among them.
- Five posts call it cheap and none call it dear. A party of ten — six adults, a teenager and three children — ate their fill and set the bill down as remarkable; another files it as fair for a tourist area. Of the ₩88,000 four-person set, one writer works out the per-head figure and declares it no great sum. The recorded prices: pork belly ₩16,000, marinated ribs ₩14,000, stir-fried pork ₩14,000 a head, the closing bean stew ₩4,000, cold noodles ₩5,000. And this is the middle of a resort strip — one writer notes that the restaurants either side sell much the same food at much the same prices.
- How you are treated seems to track how full the room is. Four write warmly: the owner moved a blocked-in car twice mid-meal, offered to put skewers back on the grill, drove out to collect a party. But one early-February visitor had the opposite evening — seated in a corner, passed over by staff too busy to take an order, told to sit down when she carried the menu over herself, and refused the quail eggs she had seen on the next table on the grounds that different dishes come with different sides. She still ends the post saying the food was good and she left full.
- Only one person waited. Around six on a February evening she found a queue at the door, with one party ahead of her. Four others got straight in — and all four had dodged the hour: one came early to beat the peak-season lunch, one phoned ahead for the grooming break, one was the first customer at half past nine in the morning, one came in the off-season. Two further posts describe a packed hall on winter evenings without saying whether they queued.
- Six posts came with children. Three were actually handed a high chair — one with a child's spoon and fork alongside, one by the owner himself. (Three other posts list a high chair among copied listing details; those we did not count.) Parents looking for something not spicy converge on the bulgogi rice meal: all three who ordered it had a child along, and two say it was mild enough to spoon over the child's rice. Two were shown into the private room and found it easier that way.
- All four who mention the cut call it thick — cut towards the rib end, thicker than expected, fresh rather than frozen. Two note there was no off-smell, two that it stayed juicy. You do the grilling: a gas burner on the table and a sloped plate to drain the fat. Four grilled kimchi alongside; one put the complimentary deodeok root on the plate as well.
- Two writers settle on "fine" — somewhere to eat lightly without expecting much, a local restaurant rather than a destination. And one relays a bad word secondhand: on the gondola up, a middle-aged couple told her they had eaten lunch here and had not enjoyed it. She went anyway and her family were all pleased. What someone else said is not what this writer found, so it is not in the counts.
What 24 bloggers said
We read all 24 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (11) and “Large portions” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Free refills | 8 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| A minimum number of portions on the first order | 6 of 24 posts |
| Takes reservations | 5 of 24 posts |
| Private room | 4 of 24 posts |
| High chairs | 3 of 24 posts |
| Cooked to order | 2 of 24 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 24 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 banchan (밑반찬 한상 (셀프바)) — 22 of 24 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
11 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 11 of 24 posts |
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You come here by car, and parking is not a problem — eleven posts say the lot in front is wide, with more behind. In the ski season even that fills: one February visitor got a space only with difficulty. If you plan to drink, the restaurant comes and gets you — four posts describe a pickup: the owner driving out to a guesthouse for a party of eight, a van sent for another group, a round trip both ways for a third, who recommends it on exactly those grounds. You arrange it by phone beforehand.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 10 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| Came by car | 10 of 24 posts |
| Group visit | 8 of 24 posts |
| With a friend | 7 of 24 posts |
| Came with children | 6 of 24 posts |
| Date | 3 of 24 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
Nobody writes about a step or a storey. Several posts read as though you walk in straight from the car park, but not one says whether there is a lip at the door or stairs to climb. A single writer mentions that a guesthouse seems to be run from the floor above — so there is an upper floor, though whether the restaurant uses it is not stated.
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-four, and the three posts that copy the venue's listing do not carry those items either. Six came with children, two of them with babies around a year old — and not one says what they did with the pushchair.
Not one of the twenty-four mentions the toilets. Nothing about whether they are inside or out, separate for men and women, or in what state — in a place that opens at nine in the morning, runs late, and seats sixty at a sitting. That means we have nothing to count, not that there is nothing there.
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 24 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way16 of 24 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 29 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 3 |
| 2026-02 | 6 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Nobody writes about getting here without a car. Not one of the twenty-four mentions a bus or a taxi, and ten drove themselves. The closest thing to a measurement comes from a pair who walked back up to the resort after dinner: ten minutes by car, the map told them, and over fifty on foot. They walked it anyway, having drunk enough to think it a good idea. If you are staying nearby, phoning for the pickup is the practical answer (four posts).
- Closing time is all over the place. Fourteen posts give hours. On opening they mostly agree — nine in the morning, in eleven of them — but closing splits between nine at night (four), half past nine (two) and midnight (five). One separates weekdays (8:30–22:00) from weekends (9:00–21:00); a June 2026 post says ten to nine. All five of the midnight figures were written between late December and mid-February, which reads like longer hours in the ski season — except that two December posts say nine, so we could not settle it. One visitor arriving around six in the evening noted that other restaurants nearby had already shut. Phone before you go.
- One post declares it was paid for, and that post is not in our count — it opens by saying a fee was received, and never says what was ordered or what it cost. Of the twenty-four we did count, eight state they paid their own way (one of them with a receipt), and sixteen say nothing at all. Saying nothing is not the same as paying.
- Three phone numbers exist. Nine posts give one; a single February 2026 post gives another; and the business registry lists a third that appears in no post at all. We went with the number from the posts — far commoner, and unbroken from 2024 through 2026 — but which of the three is answered today, we could not establish.
Sources (24)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 168 candidate posts we opened 72 and kept 24 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.