Gilpost · Hampyeong-gun, Hampyeong-eup
Grill houseKorean
Samsan Hoegwan Hampyeong
삼산회관 전남함평점 A branch of a kimchi-cookery chain in Hampyeong town, where pork-and-kimchi stew comes in a metal basin you boil for three more minutes at the table.
Data as of · Published ·
Samsan Hoegwan's Hampyeong branch is a kimchi-cookery franchise on Jungang-gil, between the town bus terminal and the public health centre. It occupies one ground floor and opened in June 2025. Two dishes hold it up: a pork-and-kimchi stew that comes in a metal basin and boils three more minutes at your table, and the same pair stir-fried on a griddle. Thin frozen pork belly joined them at the end of November 2025. Monday to Saturday until ten at night, closed Sundays. The posts we read run from June 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 전남광주통합특별시 함평군 함평읍 중앙길 54-27 54-27 Jungang-gil, Hampyeong-eup, Hampyeong-gun, Jeonnam-Gwangju |
|---|---|
| Phone | 061-323-1202 |
| Typical spend | ₩31,500 only 1 of 20 dishes carries a price |
| Floor area | 78 m² |
| Status | In business |
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 13 posts: 6 wrote Mon–Sat 11:00–22:00, 5 wrote 11:00–22:00.
| Open | Mon–Sat | 11:00–22:00 6 of 13 posts last seen 2025-12 |
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| Open | Mon–Sat | 12:00–22:00 2 of 13 posts last seen 2025-12 |
| Open | 11:00–22:00 5 of 13 posts last seen 2025-10 | |
| Closed | Sunday 12 of 12 posts last seen 2025-12 |
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
- You order from a tablet at the table, and when the stew lands you turn over an egg timer. Three posts mention the tablets. The timer comes up more often still — four writers describe it: three minutes with the burner on before you start eating. Two of them took it for decoration, ate straight away, and only learned what it was for when they asked afterwards. One writer found the tablet opened on the set menus and never realised single dishes existed — if you want one dish, page past the first screen.
- Side dishes and leaves come from a self-service bar. Six writers mention it; two say it is kept clean. Between them they list perilla leaves, cabbage salad, pickled radish wraps, garlic, soybean paste and kimchi, and one describes frying rice into what was left of the griddle themselves. Three note a printed card on the table explaining how to eat the food.
- Writers disagree about the heat. Of the stew, three say it is mild — one who cannot take chilli found it fine, another puts it at the level of a supermarket ramen — while one found it sharp enough to make them exhale. Several call the griddle sweet-hot, and nobody found it too much. If you are bringing children, there is one thing to know: the batter on the fried squid is spiced, and one family's children left it after a bite. The cutlet, the cheese balls and the rice balls went, by the same account, plate and all.
- Signed photographs hang on the wall, and a list of television appearances follows the restaurant from post to post. Two writers say they saw the signatures themselves; one describes framed broadcast stills in the room. More than ten posts reproduce the same list of programmes — but that list belongs to the chain, not to this branch, which opened in June 2025. Not one writer distinguishes which restaurant the cameras actually visited.
- Five posts call the portions large; only one puts a number on it. A party of four ordered two portions of the kimchi griddle and still had to cook half and set it aside. Two say the basin of stew is enough for two, and one got through two bowls of rice. The frozen pork belly alone has a three-portion minimum, which five posts state identically.
- Two writers say they came back. One had the stew with added ham on an earlier visit and the griddle this time. The other became a regular and now phones ahead for takeaway on the way home — though that writer reposted the same text two months later, so we counted it once. A third describes the owner heading off the order entirely: "three portions of the stew again today?" The remaining thirteen say nothing about their own footsteps, so we cannot tell whether they had been before.
- Every other post calls the owner young. But the phrase splits two ways. "Young and good-looking," which turns up verbatim in headline after headline, is publicity and we have not counted it; we counted only the six posts that say what he actually did. He recognised a regular and put the order in before it was asked for; he explained what the egg timer was for when someone asked; he grilled the meat at the table and kept the spread topped up; he talked a first-timer through how to eat the food; he changed the griddle plate as it went. Not one writer complains about the service.
What 16 bloggers said
We read all 16 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (8) and “Roomy” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Spicy | yes 4 · no 2 |
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Things you can check on site
| Free refills | 6 of 16 posts |
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| Self-order screen | 3 of 16 posts |
| Takeout | 2 of 16 posts |
| Signed celebrity photos | 2 of 16 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 16 posts |
| Phone charging | 1 of 16 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 1 of 16 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 yangpun dwaeji kimchi-jjigae (양푼돼지김치찌개) — 11 of 16 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
Sweet things
To drink
Parking
2 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 2 of 16 posts |
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Two writers mention parking, and they do not quite agree. A July 2025 post says the frontage is a road where you cannot stop, and that you use the public car park directly opposite — which has one electric-vehicle charger. A September post says only that there is free parking right in front. They probably mean the same lot across the street, but the building itself does not have one. The other fourteen posts either say nothing or assert a large car park without any sign of having parked in it, so we have not counted those.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 5 of 16 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 2 of 16 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 16 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 16 posts |
| Date | 1 of 16 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
No one writes about the floors. The registered address ends "1st floor," and post after post copies that line, but nobody reports whether there is more seating upstairs or below. Six describe a wide room with many tables — and not one of them says whether that room is one storey or two.
Nobody wrote about the step at the door. Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in, whether there is a lip at the entrance, or how wide the doorway is. We can tell you only that the place is on the ground floor and that six writers found the tables well spaced — and those two facts do not add up to an answer. One writer came with young children, but says nothing about what happened to the pushchair.
Nobody looked at the toilet. Across sixteen posts there is nothing about whether it is inside or outside, whether men's and women's are separate, or how many stalls there are. One post did list separate facilities, but that post copied the amenity list off the map listing and we dropped it from the count. A line appearing in a post is not the same as someone having seen it.
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 themselves2 of 16 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way14 of 16 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 posts we gathered, 12 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.
| 2025-12-04 | 2 posts in one day |
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| 2025-07-04 | 2 posts in one day |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-06 | 4 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 3 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- We counted sixteen posts, not thirty. Of the thirty candidates, two never mentioned this restaurant at all — a round-up of autumn flower festivals and a long-distance trail report that came in because of a village hall with a similar name — and twelve were written without going. The posts arrive in two bursts: one right after the June 2025 opening, another of eight posts in the twelve days from 27 November to 8 December 2025, when a new dish launched. Three of those went up on a single day. Our reasons for dropping them: one describes eating dishes this place does not serve; one gets the address, phone number and opening hours all wrong; one ends by saying the writer would like to visit some day; one copies the amenity checklist off the map listing wholesale; and one blogger posted the same text twice, in June and again in August. Even among the posts we kept, the chain's own lines — hundred-day kimchi, 150-hour aged grade-one pork, a country tavern in Jinan, a grandmother's hand — are not counted as observations. Sixteen people repeating a sentence is not sixteen people seeing a thing.
- Only one of the sixteen posts records a price. In October 2025 one writer paid ₩31,500 for the stew set for three, rice included — and adds that the ordering tablet opened on the set, so they never realised single dishes existed. What a single dish costs, we do not know. A figure of ₩9,500–14,000 a head recurs across several posts, but it is lifted from the chain's own publicity, so we have not counted it. We have no basis for telling you what a meal here costs.
- Just one writer describes getting here without a car. That one places the restaurant right beside the town's intercity bus terminal, on the way to the traditional market — a corner anyone living in town passes sooner or later. How many minutes it is from the terminal on foot, or which bus reaches Hampyeong, nobody writes.
- Not one writer says they queued. Nor does anyone say they did not have to. One arrived a little after the lunch hour and found the room full; one noticed several large parties — and both were seated straight away. A line about lunchtime queues does appear once, but as hearsay, in a post we dropped from the count; the same post is where the suggestion to ring ahead comes from.
- The opening time is disputed. Thirteen posts give hours: eleven say eleven in the morning, two say noon. The two that say noon are from September and December 2025, so we cannot tell whether the time changed or the writers got it wrong. All thirteen agree on ten at night, and twelve say the place is closed on Sundays. One writer notes there is no afternoon break. Two posts give a last-order time — 21:30 and 20:30 — but neither writer had been, and one of them had the opening hours wrong as well, so we have left both out.
Sources (16)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [함평, 식당 소개] 삼산회관 2026-09-11 · 오래도록 기억되는 따뜻한 공간, 함평의 스윗홈:) · via Daum
- 함평맛집 베스트! 함평현지인맛집 삼산회관전남함평점에서 먹은 냉삼 후기 2025-12-08 · 김블리 · via Daum
- 함평 현지인들이 사랑하는 삼산회관 냉삼, 점심부터 저녁까지 만족.... 2025-12-04 · 윈브로
- [함평맛집] 레트로 감성 가득한 삼산회관 전남함평점에서 꿀맛 냉삼.... 2025-12-02 · 귀곰♡ 부자가되고싶은 아기곰
- 함평맛집! 150시간 숙성 한돈 냉삼 맛집, 삼산회관 전남함평점에서 인생 냉삼 영접했어요! 2025-12-01 · 토끼의 탐구생활 · via Daum
- [전남/함평] 150시간 숙성 한돈 냉삼 맛집, 현지인 맛집 "삼산회관 전.... 2025-11-28 · 떠나보라니, 설레지않니
- [함평]나비축제, 함평엑스포공원(황금 박쥐는 진짜일까?),함평엑스포공원 맛집 2025-10-09 · T이지만 마음만은 F야 · via Daum
- 함평 식당 <삼산회관> 2025-09-25 · 난 멋쟁이토마토가 될꺼야 · via Daum
- 돼지김치구이부터 계란찜까지 푸짐하고 맛있는 한 끼 즐기는 함평.... 2025-09-23 · LOVE YOURSELF
- 함평맛집 삼산회관 전남함평점 여긴 꼭 가보세요 2025-09-23 · 즐겁게 행복하게 · via Daum
- [전남함평] 함평맛집 현지인들이 많이 찾는 맛집으로 돼지김치찌개.... 2025-08-13 · 한우리의 일상과 즐거운 맛집
- 함평맛집 젊으신 사장님의 깊은 손맛 1인분 김치찌개 가능한 삼산회.... 2025-07-04 · 꿈돌이맘의 소소한 이야기
- ［ 함평맛집 / 합평밥집 ］삼산회관 전남함평점 2025-06-30 · 하루의 일상
- 함평맛집, 함평밥집_ 함평현지인맛집 추천 삼산회관 전남함평점 2025-06-28 · ❤호빵이 일상 기록❤
- [일상] 함평맛집 '삼산회관 전남함평점' 소개 2025-06-19 · 꼬꼬 블로그
- 함평맛집 추천! 삼산회관 전남함평점에서 즐기는 가성비 갑 돼지김.... 2025-06-17 · LOVE YOURSELF
Of 214 candidate posts we opened 67 and kept 16 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.