sabotage

What we do not know

• The opening and closing times have moved four times in a year. This is change, not disagreement. Line the seventeen posts that give hours up by date and they move one way: from autumn 2025 through March 2026 it was 11:00–16:00 on weekdays and 10:00–18:00 at weekends; April and June 2026 posts say 11:00–15:00 and 10:00–17:00; one July post says the weekday open had moved to 10:00; and two September 2026 posts say 07:00–15:00 on weekdays, 07:00–16:00 at weekends. Seven in the morning is the most recent figure. Thirteen posts agree the shop closes on Wednesdays and nobody names another day. One September writer adds that the owner takes days off fairly often and that you should ask before setting out — not a fixed weekday, so it is not in the hours. Worth a check before you go.
• Accounts of queueing do not agree. One writer actually waited — they came after one o'clock to dodge the lunch rush and still had to stand for a bit. One says they waited thirty minutes on an earlier visit; a long-standing regular says a queue is normal and that they have joined one now and then. Against that: one walked in to an empty room, one found a single occupied table at half past ten on a Saturday, one was the first customer of the day. Early is fine, lunchtime is not is about the sum of it. Nobody describes anywhere to wait.
• Not one writer says how to get here by bus or train. Public transport appears once in twenty-six posts, and only as a line — "about 850m from exit 4 at Geumnamno 4-ga" — inside a header block copied wholesale from the shop's listing, alongside the phone number and the Instagram handle. That writer never says they took the subway. One person does give walking directions, but by landmark rather than station: past the pizza place, round the corner at the discount shop, straight down the lane. There is plenty about where to leave a car and nothing about arriving without one.
• Four posts say pets are welcome; one writer actually brought a dog. The other three carry it inside a single copied line — "pets welcome, high chairs, wi-fi" — lifted from the Naver listing, so we did not count them. The one we counted is from November 2025: they came with their dog and recommend the place on that basis. The other two claims fare differently. The high chair we counted once, from a writer who came with children and described the room. Wi-fi nobody saw with their own eyes, so it stands at zero. One writer does note a phone charger near the entrance.
• No post declares sponsorship. Five of the twenty-six state outright that they paid — one adds "this is not a sponsored post" — and the other twenty-one say nothing. There is no same-day flood of identical write-ups either. Four posts do share a single date, 21 November 2025, but they read nothing alike: one arrived as the first customer and watched the room fill, one brought a dog, one waited for a table, one came with their partner. The hashtags overlap; the meals recorded do not, so we kept all four. What separates a real visit from a filled order is the record of eating, not the hashtags.
• Four of the thirty confirmed posts were taken out of the count. That leaves twenty-six posts by twenty-five people — one writer posted twice, in June and September 2026. The four had not a line about this shop: a hotel breakfast review that recommends Sabotage in a link card at the end; a wood-fired pizza review that links the writer's own older Sabotage post; a sandwich shop review that mentions Sabotage once as a comparison; and a New Year's party diary about the board game called Sabotage, not the restaurant. Two of the surviving twenty-six cover several places at once — a restaurant crawl and a fortnight's diary — so we read only the Sabotage passages and counted nothing there about parking, queueing or opening hours.