Gilpost · Nam-gu, Bongseon-dong
Noodle houseSoutheast Asian
Sokoa Bongseonjeom
소코아 봉선점 A Japanese curry-and-udon room on the ground floor of a bank building in Bongseon-dong's cram-school streets, where the house plate puts prawn, chicken and keema curry side by side and the curry and rice are refilled on request.
Data as of · Published ·
Sokoa Bongseon is a Japanese curry-and-udon room on the ground floor of a bank building, in the middle of Bongseon-dong's cram-school streets. It is one branch of a chain that began in Gwangju's Yangnim-dong and now has several rooms in the city; the licence says simply Sokoa, but the sign and the writers all say Sokoa Bongseon. Two dishes carry it: the house curry, which puts prawn, chicken and keema on one plate, and a cold udon under salmon and avocado. Wood throughout, an open kitchen, and a tablet at each table that takes the order and the payment at once. Open 11:30 to 21:00 every day, closed from three to five in the afternoon. The posts we read run from December 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 전남광주통합특별시 남구 봉선로 173, 농협중앙회봉선동지점 1층 (봉선동) 173 Bongseon-ro, Nam-gu, Jeonnam-Gwangju |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1334-8364 |
| Typical spend | ₩11,000 – ₩15,000 |
| Floor area | 110 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 16 posts: 16 wrote Daily 11:30–21:00.
| Open | Daily | 11:30–21:00 16 of 16 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–17:00 15 of 15 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 20:30 9 of 9 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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
- Order a curry and they will fill the curry and the rice again. Seventeen posts say so, several adding the condition that each person must have ordered a dish of their own. One explains the choice — rice only, curry only, or both — and two say the second helping comes as generous as the first. It does not extend to the udon or the cutlets: two writers state the refill is for curry dishes only, and three therefore advise ordering the three-curry plate and topping up whichever one you liked. One suggests deliberately under-ordering to leave room.
- A large share of these meals had a child at the table. Several note the high chairs and the children's crockery; one a baby-change table. More telling are the two occasions when something off the menu appeared — staff asking, unprompted, whether they should fry an egg for a two-year-old, and bringing it unseasoned; and, at another table, scrambling one for a baby. Neither was charged for. Twice is not a standing offer. If heat is the worry, three writers point to the prawn curry as the mild one.
- This is one branch of a chain, and that fact gets in the way of reading about it. Three posts say it began in Yangnim-dong and that the original room is gone; one counts about six in Gwangju now; four have been to the Dongmyeong, Jeondae, Sangmu or Namak branches. So a post that says only "we went to Sokoa" may not be about this room at all — we pulled one Sangmu-branch post out of the pile while reading. Some do compare: Dongmyeong too cramped for a child and Bongseon roomy, Bongseon carrying more dishes than the others, Bongseon the prettiest of them. Two mention the stuffed monkey that apparently sits in every branch.
- Ordering and paying happen at the table, in one go. There is a tablet at each seat — the writers call it a kiosk — and you pay before the food comes; many say so, one describing simply pushing the card in. With staff needed only for a refill or the review receipt, two note how easy it is to eat here alone. Five mention the hair ties left on every table, and every one of them reads that particular detail as a person's doing rather than a system's.
- Every winter post opens with the Christmas tree. The posts from December 2025 and January 2026 describe the decorations, and an April regular posts an exterior shot taken, she says, the previous winter. The wood and the yellow light come up in every season — two writers are put in mind of Southeast Asia, one of a country curry shop in Japan — but the decorations cluster in the cold months. Go in summer and you will find a different room from the one in those photographs.
What 23 bloggers said
We read all 23 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (10) and “Clean” (8).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Returning customer | yes 9 · no 5 |
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Things you can check on site
| Review event | 9 of 23 posts |
|---|---|
| Self-order screen | 8 of 23 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 7 of 23 posts |
| Open kitchen | 5 of 23 posts |
| One dish per person | 5 of 23 posts |
| High chairs | 4 of 23 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 4 of 23 posts |
| Parking capacity | 2 of 23 posts |
| Independent, not a chain | 2 of 23 posts — saying it is not |
| Waiting area | 2 of 23 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 23 posts |
| Ramp at the door | 1 of 23 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 23 posts |
| Step-free access | 1 of 23 posts |
| Changing table | 1 of 23 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 23 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 abokado yeoneo naeng-udon (아보카도 연어 냉우동) — 12 of 23 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
17 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 17 of 23 posts |
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Half of what is written about this place is really written about parking in Bongseon-dong. The writers call it a nightmare, a thing to steel yourself for — and the shop's own car park is, in post after post, the reason they came here rather than somewhere else. The free hour is one hour: one writer overran it slightly and paid ₩2,000, and two explain that you register the plate when you pay, or just give the last digits. Where the car park actually is, they disagree about — in front of the main door, behind the building, over by the Samik apartments. With two entrances, it may look different depending on which one you used. Two call it surprisingly large; one warns it is usually full enough that parking elsewhere is less trouble.
Who came, and with whom
| Came with children | 9 of 23 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 6 of 23 posts |
| With a friend | 3 of 23 posts |
| Date | 2 of 23 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 23 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Ramp at the door | 1 of 23 posts |
|---|---|
| Step-free access | 1 of 23 posts |
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 23 posts read) |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 23 posts |
On what floor you enter, the posts say only "the first." The address and the check-ins put it there, and two writers describing the building place it on the ground floor — under a bank branch in one account, under a cram school in another. Not one post counts steps, mentions a lift, or says whether there are more seats upstairs; we do not know whether the room is all on one level. Three do note that there are two doors: one off the car park, one on the main road, and that the main-road entrance takes you a little further into the building.
One person looked at the threshold and wrote down what they saw. In September 2026 a writer pushing a ten-month-old found a ramp at the door and said the pram went in easily. That is the whole of it — the other twenty-six posts have nothing on steps, ramps or door widths, and not one says whether a wheelchair can get in. Plenty note the high chairs and children's crockery, this being a place families come to; that is a different question from the door.
Three people mention the toilet and they do not agree. One says it is the building's. One says it is by the entrance and locked with a code. One says the women's has a baby-change table and was spotless. That the sexes are separated, and that there is a change table, rest on a single account each — and whether it is inside the shop or shared with the building is exactly what they disagree about. A keypad lock leans toward shared, but we have not been to look.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Step at the entrance · 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 themselves6 of 23 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way17 of 23 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 24 posts we gathered, 1 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 7 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Write a receipt review here and you get something — so the star rating is not a clean number. The offer runs through every month we read, December 2025 to September 2026; usually a small pork cutlet, though one December post got a drink instead. Ask at the table for the receipt, or show a coupon pulled from Naver. Those who took it were mostly surprised at how good a free thing was. Not one of the twenty-seven posts declares a sponsorship, and six state plainly that they paid — but while an incentive is attached to reviewing, the rating and the review count should both be discounted.
- Seven of these posts went up in three days at the start of December 2025 — five of them on the sixth. All seven describe the same Christmas decorations. We kept them: the bodies differ, the orders differ, the prices differ, and each records a real meal. But a crowd arriving at once is hard to read as coincidence. None of the seven declares a sponsorship, and we could not establish one — we record only what is there. Set them aside and what remains is a year of posts spread evenly across 2026.
- Nobody writes about getting here without a car. No bus, no subway, no stop, in any of the twenty-seven posts. Those who give directions reach for landmarks — the Starbucks across the road, the Samik apartments, the E-Mart crossing — and the one person who walked lives in the neighbourhood. This is not a claim that transit is bad. It is a record that no one said.
- Nobody writes about having queued. Two note that there are chairs to wait in; two advise booking through Naver because lunch and dinner peaks can back up — and neither of those two says they waited themselves. The posts that give a time went at Saturday lunch, on a weekday evening, or before opening on a weekday, and found the room empty. This is not a finding that there is never a queue; it is a record that our posts missed the peak. One writer, noting the cram schools all around, describes students coming in alone to eat, which suggests the room fills and empties on the neighbourhood's own clock.
Sources (23)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 봉선동 맛집 소코아 주차 시그니처 카레 아보카도 연어 우동 필수 2026-09-19 · 광주맛집저장소, 맛카이브
- 광주 봉선동 맛집 일본식 카레 우동 전문점 소코아 봉선점 에비후라.... 2026-09-17 · 심심한 일상을 깨우는 상상력
- 주기적으로 먹어줘야하는 봉선동 카레맛집 ㅣ 소코아 봉선점 2026-08-27 · 그냥
- 소코아 봉선점 / 24개월 아기와 함께 다녀온 카레 맛집 / 내돈내산 2026-08-17 · 라프라스
- [전남광주 남구] 소코아 봉선점 "아보카도연어우동" 2026-08-13 · 9회말 맛집일기
- 광주 봉선동 맛집 소코아 아이랑 가기 좋은 카레 냉우동 애견 동반 .... 2026-08-05 · 마쉬쏘요
- 광주 남구 봉선동 아기랑 맛집 소코아 카레 2026-06-06 · 이앤의 나날 : 딸하나 아들하나 육아일상
- [광주광역시] 소코아 봉선점, 봉선동 맛집 추천 2026-05-31 · 챠챠가 챠챠해요
- 봉선동 점심 카레 냉우동 맛집 소코아 2026-05-23 · 혜미니의 Life
- 광주 봉선동 카레 맛집 [소코아] 냉우동 맛집 또또간집 2026-05-07 · ourhappydays
- <광주> 봉선동 맛집 소코아 반반카레부터 추천메뉴 찐단골 후기 2026-04-06 · 양로로 블로그
- 광주 봉선동 맛집 소코아 일식 카레 전문점 2026-04-03 · 행또리의 SOMEDAY
- 소코아 봉선점 | 카레가 땡기는 날 답은 소코아 광주 봉선동 맛집 내.... 2026-03-21 · 오늘의 마이구미
- 봉선동 소코아 깔끔한 일본식 카레 2026-03-21 · 요가, 예쁨을 지키는 시간
- 봉선동 점심맛집 추천 아이랑 가기 좋은 카레집 소코아 2026-01-30 · 집순이의 일탈
- 광주 양림동에서 시작해 전국으로 확장한 일식 카레 맛집, 소코아 .... 2026-01-15 · 영원은 순간 속에
- 광주 카레와 냉우동이 맛있는 봉선동 맛집 소코아 2025-12-06 · 프로외출러 킴스링
- 광주 봉선동 맛집, 소코아 | 아이랑 가기 좋은 맛집 2025-12-06 · Love, joo
- [광주 남구] 반려견&아이랑 봉선동맛집 소코아 2025-12-06 · 담두리
- 봉선동맛집 소코아 주차, 광주 아이랑 가족 외식 장소 2025-12-06 · 토찌패밀리 주말ON
- 광주 봉선동 맛집 크리스마스 분위기 소코아 에비카레, 토비카레 후.... 2025-12-06 · 짠짠로그
- 광주 남구 봉선동 카레맛집 소코아 2025-12-05 · 내이름은 길동
- 광주 봉선동 카레 맛집 소코아 찐 방문후기 2025-12-04 · Picture Channel for Children and Parents
Of 296 candidate posts we opened 87 and kept 23 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.