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Seosigodeng Yeosu-jeom

서시고뎅 여수점 A self-service oden bar one floor up in a Yeosu drinking lane, where every skewer costs the same and the broth never runs out

Other · Yeosu-si, Hak-dong

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Seosi Goden is a self-service oden bar in the drinking lane behind the city hall in Yeosu. It sits one floor above Seosik, a Korean drinking house under the same ownership, so a lot of people arrive having already eaten downstairs. You take a tray to the bar in the middle of the room and choose your own skewers; back at your table a pot of broth goes on an induction plate, you drop them in, and five minutes later they are done. There are twenty-odd kinds and every one costs ₩1,900, whatever it is — the used sticks go into a pot and get counted at the till. The broth, the spring onion and the green chilli are bottomless, and the radish simmered in the broth is free for the taking. Beyond the skewers there are some thirty izakaya dishes — seared beef, a raw beef and salmon plate, deep-fried pork belly — plus highballs, sake and a decent alcohol-free list. Six in the evening until two in the morning. The posts we read run from January 2025 to July 2026.

The basics

Address전남광주통합특별시 여수시 시청동5길 17-1, 2층 (학동)
17-1 Sicheongdong 5-gil, Yeosu-si, Jeonnam-Gwangju
Phone0507-1427-8905
Typical spend₩1,900 – ₩35,900
Floor area162 m²
StatusIn business

When it opens

Of 26 posts: 9 wrote Daily 17:30–02:30, 4 wrote Mon–Sat 18:00–02:00, 3 wrote 17:30–02:30.

OpenDaily18:00–02:00 8 of 26 posts last seen 2026-02
Open18:00–02:00 2 of 26 posts last seen 2026-02
OpenMon–Sat18:00–02:00 4 of 26 posts last seen 2025-12
OpenDaily17:30–02:30 9 of 26 posts last seen 2025-05
Open17:30–02:30 3 of 26 posts last seen 2025-04
Last order01:00 5 of 15 posts last seen 2026-01
Last order01:30 10 of 15 posts last seen 2025-05
Closed일요일 4 of 4 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.

What sets it apart

  1. It is one floor up, and the stairs are the thing these posts come back to. Twenty-four of the twenty-nine describe the climb in their own words — above Seosik, up the flight at the side of the building. And two of them watched somebody fall on it. One remembers friends going down on those steps, and how she sat down on them herself the moment one did. The other, listing what is wrong with the place, puts it plainly: it is on the first floor up, so unless you enjoy coming back down on your backside, drink in moderation. Worth reading next to the fact that this bar serves until two in the morning. No post says whether there is a lift, how many steps there are, or whether the flight has a handrail.
  2. There is a rule to know before you sit down. On the first order you must choose one of three: eleven skewers minimum if you are only having oden; no minimum at all if you order a main; or five skewers minimum with any side dish. Two posts add that a drink is compulsory too. Sixteen posts set the rule out and none of them contradicts another. The bar counter is exempt — three say so, one explaining that the tables need a main but the counter does not, another advising the counter to anyone put off by the minimum. If you only want two or three skewers, take a seat at the bar. The rule appears to have changed once: a March 2025 post gives it as seven skewers for two people, eleven for three, while every post from December 2025 onward says eleven flat.
  3. ₩1,900 a skewer has not moved between January 2025 and April 2026 — over twenty posts give the same figure, and one writer is glad the price is flat across the range, since nobody has to feel watched for reaching past the cheap ones. Twelve of the thirteen posts that discuss price call it cheap. One says the opposite: ₩1,900 struck her as a bit much, though she liked the oden anyway. Two others raise the same doubt in order to dismiss it, so the number evidently does not read as cheap to everyone. One post gives a figure you can do arithmetic with: the seven-skewer minimum for two comes to ₩13,300. Snacks start around ₩4,000 and the dearest thing anyone records is a ₩35,900 beef set. Two prices disagree with themselves: the draught beer is ₩7,000 in February 2025 and ₩6,000 in December, and the sake flask ₩6,900 in April 2025 and ₩13,000 in December — though the name changed too, so they may not be the same drink.
  4. It is roomy, and nobody says otherwise. Nine posts say so, several of them in the form of being surprised on the way in — bigger than it looks from the street, possibly the biggest izakaya in the district. One counts more than fifteen tables. The seating splits three ways: a bar counter comfortable for one, tables along the window, and partitioned seats further in. Ten posts mention the window, two of them noting that those go first. Four describe the room as two spaces with two different moods. Two things matter in winter: a coat rack and blankets. Six posts mention them, and one writer opens her account with the rack, calling coats the great unsolved problem of winter drinking. Against that, one writer moved to the counter because the tables near the self-service bar looked cold.
  5. On the way out, the place takes your photograph. Twelve posts mention it, each with a different name for the machine — receipt photo, life-shot, instant sticker — and it sits by the till and is free. Two note the limit: one print per table. The tone is consistent: drunk, silly, worth having. One writer's only regret about her evening is that she missed it, and she tells you twice not to. Another mentions a separate photo spot by the entrance. It is the single most repeated piece of advice about this bar — more posts tell you to take the photo than recommend any dish.
  6. The lavatories are inside and there are separate ones for men and women. Five writers report it from having seen it — four more carry the line in a copied facilities list, which we have not counted. What they notice is specific: that it is roomy; that there is a diffuser and it smells of it; that there are sanitary products and mouthwash laid out. One writer's friend came back from it and told her to go and look, and what she meant was the sanitary products. Nobody calls it cramped; one calls it roomy. For a bar that serves until two in the morning, that is an unusual amount of attention to the lavatory.
  7. The broth is bottomless, and that is where the value in this place sits. Fifteen posts say so; you call for it through the tablet or ask a member of staff. One writer's practical note: the first pot comes short, she had it topped up twice, and if you care about the soup, order extra from the start. Spring onion, green chilli, pickled radish and wasabi are laid out at the bar for you to take, and five writers describe loading the pot with chilli to make it fierce. The radish simmered in the broth is free too — four make a point of it, one of them comparing it with Fukuoka, where she had to pay for hers. The snack that comes with the table is refillable as well.
  8. Drink downstairs at Seosik first and you get money off up here. Three posts say so: bring the receipt. None says how much. That the two are one business shows up elsewhere too — one writer noticed her card slip came out in Seosik's name. It explains why this place is so often somebody's second stop: nine posts arrive having eaten or drunk somewhere else first. Separately, three mention a coupon for free fried filefish if you follow the shop on Naver, one a snack coupon for writing a review, and one a coupon reserved for workers from the local industrial complex.

What 29 bloggers said

We read all 29 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (12) and “Roomy” (9).

What they liked

Not expensive12 of 29 posts
Roomy9 of 29 posts
Clean5 of 29 posts
Returning customer4 of 29 posts
Would return4 of 29 posts
Quiet3 of 29 posts
Friendly staff1 of 29 posts

Things you can check on site

Second floor24 of 29 posts
A minimum number of portions on the first order16 of 29 posts
Free refills15 of 29 posts
Photo booth12 of 29 posts
Self-order screen11 of 29 posts
Large windows10 of 29 posts
Toilet inside5 of 29 posts
Discount offered3 of 29 posts
Coupon3 of 29 posts
Separate restrooms3 of 29 posts
Takes reservations3 of 29 posts
Beer served3 of 29 posts
Review event1 of 29 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is self oden kkochi (셀프 오뎅 (1꼬치)) — 24 of 29 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

Parking

1 posts say you can park; 7 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Posts saying you can park1 of 29 posts
Posts saying you cannot7 of 29 posts

There is no car park of its own — seven posts say so. What there is instead is a municipal car park a minute's walk away, free for the first hour, named by four of them; one writer gives the lot number outright. Another quotes ₩2,000 an hour for paid parking, and we cannot tell whether that contradicts the free hour or follows it. One rates the difficulty as moderate; two simply observe that Yeosu is well supplied with public lots. Exactly one writer says otherwise: she parked free in the building's own lot — and adds, in the next breath, that you should use the public one if it is full. So there are presumably a few spaces; the other seven either did not find them or could not use them. Since the place serves until two in the morning you are better off leaving the car anyway, and three writers record ordering alcohol-free drinks because they had driven.

Who came, and with whom

With a friend10 of 29 posts
Date6 of 29 posts
Came by car3 of 29 posts
Group visit1 of 29 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Seosigodeng Yeosu-jeom is

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

Second floor24 of 29 posts
Toilet inside5 of 29 posts
Separate restrooms3 of 29 posts

Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. The words do not appear anywhere in the twenty-nine. That is not the same as saying no — it means nobody wrote it down. What twenty-four do write is that the bar is one floor up a flight of stairs at the side of the building, and no post mentions a lift. Two of them watched somebody fall on those stairs. Ring and ask if it matters; three posts say the place takes bookings.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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 disclosing payment2 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves3 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way24 of 29 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 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

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Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-011
2025-022
2025-031
2025-047
2025-051
2025-126
2026-012
2026-028
2026-041

What we do not know

  • Opening and closing both moved half an hour earlier. Thirteen posts from January to May 2025 all say half past five in the evening to half past two in the morning, last orders at half past one. Thirteen posts from December 2025 to February 2026 all say six to two, last orders at one. No month carries both — this is a change, not a disagreement, and there are seven months in between from which we have nothing. The closing day is unresolved. Four December 2025 posts state flatly that it shuts on Sundays; nine posts from January and February 2026 say it opens every day and not one mentions Sunday. Going further back, a February 2025 writer records a Sunday visit and a full room. If you are planning a Sunday, ring first.
  • Only two posts declare a sponsorship, and the dates cluster. The two are one that says so in its first line, and one that says nothing in words but carries a review-agency disclosure banner as an image — the banner is the declaration. Three others state they paid; the remaining twenty-four say nothing either way. The calendar is hard to ignore: seven posts between 2 and 26 April 2025, five between 16 and 22 December 2025, eight between 4 and 19 February 2026. Three of the April posts share a date and three ordered the identical beef set; six of the eight February posts ordered the identical raw beef and salmon plate. And two sentences — the one about twenty-four premium Busan fishcakes and the one about the grade of the beef — appear word for word in several. We have not struck them out as duplicates: the company, the side dishes and the seats differ in every one, and each writer reports what she saw. But the shared sentences come off the shop's own signage, so we have not counted them as observations, and these totals are not the product of twenty-nine evenly spread independent visits. One further gift, not a sponsorship: in April 2025 the owner handed out salmon that was not yet on the menu, asking what people thought of it. Ten months later it is on sale as a dish.
  • Not one post records queuing. Five record finding it full. The good window seats already taken early on a February evening; the room filling by seven or eight on a weekday; a great many people on a Friday; too crowded to photograph the room; busy even on a Sunday. It reads less like a place with a queue than a place where the window and the partitioned seats go if you arrive late — the room itself holds fifteen-plus tables and nine posts call it roomy. Three mention booking, and one of those booked through Naver and was shown to a private seat at the back. If you want the window or a partition, book or come at opening; two writers say they did the latter.
  • No post explains how to get here by train or bus. Yeosu has no metro and nobody writes about a bus. What they give instead are landmarks: above Seosik on the ground floor (twenty-four posts), the strip in front of the city hall, the drinking lane in the Buyeong-samdanji area, behind a particular sushi restaurant. One writer supplies the line to give a taxi driver — name the two restaurants on the corner and they will know. Another lists driving times: fifteen minutes from the Expo station, eleven from the bus terminal, fifteen from the Yi Sun-sin square, eighteen from the harbour food stalls. Nobody says how long the walk is, or which way to come from a station or a stop.
  • The menu moves. A writer who came in January 2026 had gone specifically for a cucumber salad and a honeyed tofu she had seen listed online, and was told both had been dropped — she ate skewers and a tomato dish instead and went home. It moves the other way too: in April 2025 the owner was handing out salmon that was not yet on the menu and asking what people thought, and by February 2026 that salmon is a dish people order. The prices and compositions we record are those of the day each post was written. The tripe hotpot, the beef-and-omelette dish, the croquettes and the honeyed tofu appear only in first-half-of-2025 posts, and we could not confirm they still exist. The one constant across all fifteen months we read is ₩1,900 a skewer.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 226 candidate posts we opened 71 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.