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Juknokwon Godeungeo Ssambap

죽녹원 고등어쌈밥 Mackerel braised with house-aged kimchi, near Damyang's bamboo park

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Juknokwon Godeungeo Ssambap is a Korean restaurant in a quiet lane behind Damyang's noodle street, five minutes' walk from the Gwanbangjerim embankment. The name is the menu: house-aged kimchi and thick daikon under one whole braised mackerel per person. There is a set that adds Damyang's famous tteokgalbi and a steamed egg. Wrapping leaves and side dishes come free from a help-yourself bar. It sits in the middle of tourist country but fills with people who work in Damyang — one writer picked it by searching the county's published expense records for restaurants officials keep paying at. Nine in the morning until half past eight. The posts we read run from May 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 18 posts: 14 wrote Daily 09:00–20:30.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is self bar (쌈채소·반찬 셀프바) — 20 of 26 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

• 묵은지 고등어쌈밥16 ate it
  mugeunji godeungeo ssambap₩12,000 · ₩13,000 · ₩14,000

  The shop's name and its whole reason for being. House-aged kimchi and thick-cut daikon under **one whole mackerel per person**, braised down in a shallow red sauce. It is called ssambap but what arrives looks like kimchi-jjim

  12,000 won a head in May–July 2025, 13,000 in October–November, **14,000 by July 2026**. Minimum two. Sixteen posts ordered it on its own. Six note that a whole mackerel comes per person; two admit they could not finish theirs and five took leftovers home. Three say the fish is braised soft enough to eat bones and all. **The aged kimchi is sharp.** "Long-fermented, and a bit salty with it"; "salty by the end"; and one writer simply: **it was too sour for me and I couldn't eat much.** Two say wrapping it in lettuce takes the edge off. **If you don't get on with old kimchi, this is not your restaurant.** Rice comes in a large bowl, meant for mixing. One post says the heat is mild enough for a chilli-avoider. The writer who read the origin board reports the mackerel in this dish is **Norwegian**

• 떡갈비 묵은지 고등어쌈밥 정식12 ate it
  tteokgalbi jeongsik₩19,000 · ₩20,000 · ₩21,000

  The same mackerel, with **Damyang's tteokgalbi and a steamed egg** added. It exists for people who came all this way and want the local beef patty too — twelve posts took it

  19,000 won a head in 2025, 20,000 by autumn, **21,000 by mid-2026**. Minimum two. One or two patties per person. **The steamed egg gets written about more than the beef** — "a bomb of it", "like pudding inside", "exactly the right set". One post says it arrives as a freebie. Opinion on the tteokgalbi splits. One writer says it is tender and sweet enough to pass for a specialist's; another, paying the extra 7,000 won, says **it's good but not worth the difference**; a third settles on "fine, but this isn't a tteokgalbi house"

• 묵은지 갈비찜1 ate it
  mugeunji galbijjim₩32,000 · ₩34,000

  The braise you take instead of the fish; a spicy version sits beside it at the same price. **Exactly one post ordered it**

  32,000 won for two in July 2025, 34,000 by October. The one writer who ordered it says only that her son ate it happily. **Nobody describes the taste.** Two more say it looked good and they have earmarked it for next time

• 묵은지 돼지주물럭 쌈밥named in 3
  dwaeji jumulleok ssambap₩14,000

  A pork version of the wrapped rice, on the board from 2026. **No post records eating it**

  14,000 won a head, minimum two. It appears only in the three posts that copied out the board, and **nobody has written about it.** No 2025 post lists it at all, so **it looks like a later addition**

• 통갈치구이named in 1
  tong-galchi gui₩28,000

  Whole grilled hairtail, new to the 2026 board. **No post records eating it**

  One post (September 2026) gives 28,000 won for two, and even that writer ordered something else. **It is absent from every 2025 post.**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 쌈채소·반찬 셀프바20 ate it
  self bar

  **A help-yourself bar, no charge, as much as you like** — one counter for wrapping leaves, one for side dishes. Twenty posts describe it, more than write about anything else here

  The leaves are **cabbage and lettuce, and that is all** — two posts call the selection wide, but every list anyone actually writes down is those two. Five call them fresh; one notes not a wilted or browned edge anywhere. Two say the cabbage is sweet. The side counter always has perilla and garlic pickles, green chilli and ssamjang, plus, depending on the post, a cold cucumber-and-seaweed soup or doenjang broth. **Soup is not brought to the table — you fetch it**, as one writer helpfully spells out. Verdicts on the broth vary: "terrific depth", "plain but fine", and **"a bit too salty, a shame"**. The set side dishes come to the table and staff bring more for the asking. One post says they are made fresh each morning and so change from day to day

• 떡갈비 3개 (단품)1 ate it
  tteokgalbi 3₩13,000 · ₩15,000

  Tteokgalbi can be added on its own without taking the full set. **One post added a portion for a child**

  13,000 won for three in June 2025, 15,000 by that October — **up 2,000 in four months**, the same season the mackerel and the set each went up 1,000. The writer who ordered it for her child found there was enough for the table to share, and rated it merely fine

• 오징어 파전named in 4
  ojingeo pajeon₩15,000

  A spring-onion-and-squid pancake listed as a side. **No post records eating it**

  15,000 won. It shows up only in the four menu listings, and **nobody has even photographed it.**

Parking

18 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.

More than half the posts looked at the parking themselves. Eighteen describe it and they agree: four or five spaces at the door, and a free public car park directly behind the building (two writers say there are in fact two of them back there). Holidays are another matter: one visitor barely squeezed in among the crowds heading for the bamboo park, and another warns that the car park on the noodle-street side is easy to enter and hard to leave — park across the bridge instead. One post calls the spaces at the door cramped.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Ground floor — it is in the address, and across twenty-seven posts nobody mentions stairs or a lift. One writer notes that the seating is all tables and chairs, no floor seating, which is worth knowing if getting down and up again is a problem.

Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across twenty-seven posts there is nothing about a step, a ramp, or the doorway. Four parties brought children and seven noticed the high chairs, yet nobody describes wheeling a pushchair in. The phrase "pushchairs and cases welcome" exists only in the one post that scraped the map listing wholesale. One writer does warn that the obvious-looking door is not the entrance — it's the one next to it — which suggests the way in takes finding, but what it looks like, no one says.

Nobody has looked at the toilets. Across twenty-seven posts there is no word on whether they are inside, or separate for men and women. The phrase "separate men's and women's" turns up exactly once, inside a post that pasted the map listing's options in as a raw Python list — a post that does not even say what its author ate. This is nobody wrote it down, not that there aren't any.

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 disclosing payment1 / 261 of 26 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves7 / 267 of 26 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way18 / 2618 of 26 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 27 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

What we do not know

• Only one post says how to get here without a car: thirteen minutes on foot from Damyang's express bus terminal. The other twenty-six all drove, and the distances they record — three minutes from the bamboo park, ten from Meta Provence — are driver's distances. Two writers did walk in, but both had parked nearby and strolled along the embankment first. Nobody has taken a local bus.
• It fills at lunch and empties either side of it — eight posts give the hour. Three found it nearly full on a weekday lunchtime, and one arrived during a holiday weekend to a room so packed the staff were visibly overrun. Against that: quiet at half past one on a Saturday; a table going spare at one on a Sunday as lunch wound down; and one early-evening visit that started empty and was heaving by the time she left. Nobody reports queueing outside — the only mention of a wait is second-hand, "I'd heard there's usually one." The room is large enough that there may simply never be one.
• Two writers flatly contradict each other about whether there is a private room. July 2025: "there's a room too, I just couldn't photograph it." June 2026: "no separate room, but it's still fine for a group." Both were sitting in the place looking around, and we cannot settle it. Group booking definitely exists, but the capacity differs every time it is quoted — 65, 73, 75. If you are bringing a party, phone.
• The price has gone up twice in a year — check the date on any "what a bargain" you read. The mackerel ssambap: 12,000 won a head in May–July 2025, 13,000 by that autumn, 14,000 by mid-2026. The tteokgalbi set: 19,000, then 20,000, then 21,000. Receipt photographs back it up — 26,000 for two in November 2025, 28,000 for two in February 2026. All three posts marvelling that the prices "make no sense" or "haven't caught up with inflation" were written at or before the older figures. The only grumble about value anywhere concerns the beef: good, says the writer, but not worth the extra 7,000 won.
• The aged kimchi is where people part ways. It is made in-house and braised long, and writers note it accordingly: "well fermented, a bit salty", "salty by the end", and one plainly — it was too sour for me and I couldn't eat much (her mother, at the same table, was fine). Two say wrapping it in a leaf fixes that. Four call the side dishes plain or unremarkable, though two of those read the plainness as deliberate balance against a forceful main. One writer was taken aback to find the room felt like a roadside canteen and concluded it doesn't quite work as a destination for a trip — the coolest verdict among the twenty-seven.
• One post declares itself sponsored — a July 2025 review that opens by saying the meal was provided free by the restaurant. Beyond that, three posts pass along an offer of a soft drink for writing a receipt review, and one mentions a panda keyring. Seven of the twenty-seven state that they paid their own way, three of them with a photograph of the receipt. The rest say nothing either way.

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Of 215 candidate posts we opened 49 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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