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Matna Cheonggukjang

맛나청국장 A rice-and-stew house by the Daepyeong market roundabout in Sejong where one 10,000-won pot buys you a help-yourself counter of rice, side dishes, grilled fish and free makgeolli.

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

Matna Cheonggukjang is a rice-and-stew house in Yongpo-ri, Geumnam-myeon, Sejong, beside the roundabout at the mouth of Daepyeong market. It used to be inside the market and moved out to this corner; one post dates the move to 2020. An older couple run it. A stew is 10,000 won; 5,000 more turns it into a 15,000-won set with stir-fried pork, stir-fried squid or a rolled omelette, and the set needs two people. Rice and side dishes come from a help-yourself counter, and so do the makgeolli and the plum tea, all free. A grilled croaker and a fried egg arrive per person whether you order them or not. Nine in the morning to nine at night Monday to Saturday, closed between two and five, Sundays lunch only. The posts we read run from July 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

When it opens

Of 20 posts: 17 wrote Mon–Sat 09:00–21:00, 15 wrote Sunday 11:00–14:00.

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 selfbar banchan (셀프바 밑반찬) — 29 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

What to order

• 청국장28 ate it
  cheonggukjang₩10,000

  The dish the shop is named for. It arrives still boiling in its earthenware pot, with tofu, whole soybeans, courgette, mushroom and onion. One post says the paste is made in-house

  10,000 won; add 5,000 and it becomes the 15,000-won set with a stir-fry. **The line that repeats most is that it does not smell strong** — seven say so, and three would recommend it to someone new to cheonggukjang. Most call it nutty rather than salty; one dissenter found the chilli in it a little sharp. Twenty-eight people ate it, and fifteen mixed it into their rice

• 제육볶음 + 청국장16 ate it
  jeyuk bokkeum set₩15,000

  The most-ordered combination — sixteen of the twenty-nine. Sweet-hot stir-fried pork with the cheonggukjang alongside

  15,000 won a head, and four posts note the **two-person minimum**. Four taste the flame on it; four say it is not very hot. One reads it differently: lightly seasoned so the pork itself comes through, the kind older diners go for. One describes thin-sliced belly pork, another a little sauce left in the pan

• 오징어볶음 + 청국장12 ate it
  ojingeo bokkeum set₩15,000

  The other side of the set: squid stir-fried with onion and carrot

  15,000 won a head, two-person minimum. Twelve ate it, and **four make a point of it not being rubbery** (one contrasts it with the giant squid that turns up everywhere now). How hot it is splits: two say sweet rather than hot, three say properly spicy. Two went for the cheonggukjang and came away talking about this instead

• 순두부찌개3 ate it
  sundubu jjigae₩10,000

  A soft-tofu stew, the same price as the cheonggukjang

  10,000 won. Three ordered it and **only one described it, without much enthusiasm** — a good broth, but the solids underseasoned. The other two only record ordering it

• 된장찌개1 ate it
  doenjang jjigae₩10,000

  The soybean-paste stew; one post says they will swap the cheonggukjang for this if someone cannot eat it

  10,000 won. One post says **the soup can be swapped if someone in the party cannot eat cheonggukjang** — they did swap, and describe a house-made soybean paste with a little chilli in it, full of courgette and mushroom

• 삼겹살·뒷고기1 ate it
  samgyeopsal and dwitgogi

  A separate evening list — the same menu carries a rice-and-stew house by day and grilled pork at night

  **Nobody recorded a price.** One person has eaten it, and even that is a memory of a work dinner some time before, which they remember as pleasantly chewy

• 김치찌개named in 7
  kimchi jjigae₩10,000

  The kimchi stew — one post notes it needs two people

  10,000 won. It is on the board and nobody wrote about eating it. One post notes it needs **two people minimum**

• 계란말이 + 청국장named in 6
  gyeranmari set₩15,000

  The third option in the set, at the same price as the pork and the squid

  15,000 won. **Nobody wrote about eating it.** Two saw it on other tables: one noticed a lot of people ordering it, the other called it the biggest egg roll they had seen and promised to have it next time. Both said next time; there is no next post

• 오징어찌개named in 4
  ojingeo jjigae₩10,000

  Squid in a stew rather than a stir-fry, and for two people upward

  10,000 won, two people minimum. **No post records eating it on the day**, but one regular names it alongside the cheonggukjang as their pick and says it tastes like their mother's — without saying when they had it

• 닭볶음탕·닭백숙 (예약제)named in 2
  dak bokkeumtang and baeksuk

  **Order ahead only** — the board lists these under a separate reservation heading

  **No price, and nobody has eaten one.** Two posts spotted them on the board, one suggesting a group might want to look into it. How far ahead you need to ring, nobody says

• 어린이 상named in 1
  children's setting₩5,000

  One post says a primary-school child or younger needs no dish of their own: 5,000 won adds an egg, a fish and a bowl of rice

  5,000 won. **Only one post mentions it**, and no post records actually using it — none of the five who brought children says anything about what they paid. Worth checking at the door

Sides, and what comes with it

• 셀프바 밑반찬29 ate it
  selfbar banchan₩0

  **This is what the place is really about.** A row of tubs along one side, help yourself. Four posts counted seven kinds, three counted eight

  No charge. **The line-up changes by the day** — no two posts list the same things. Between them: bean sprouts, radish, bracken, sea-stem, burdock, anchovies, garlic scapes, young radish kimchi, cucumber, fishcake, lotus root, potato, peppers, shishito, dried courgette, saltwort, bellflower root, pickled onion, sausage, aubergine, wood-ear mushroom, dried radish — and **a scallop salad** one writer thought good enough to sell on its own. Chilli paste and sesame oil sit alongside so you can build a bibimbap. Three posts warn you must not leave food; one says there is an environmental charge for it

• 조기구이28 ate it
  jogi gui₩0

  **It comes whether you ask or not.** Order a stew and a grilled croaker arrives per person — it turns up in twenty-eight of the posts

  No charge. **Four say it is fried more than grilled** and six mention how crisp the skin is. One ate it bones and all; another said you could pass the place off as a grilled-fish specialist. Most find it salty in the way that keeps rice moving. Seven name it as croaker, the rest just say grilled fish, and one calls it fried atka mackerel instead

• 계란후라이28 ate it
  gyeran fry₩0

  Comes free alongside the fish, fried to order, one per person

  No charge. **Eleven posts put it on top of the bibimbap and mixed it in.** One calls it unusually thick

• 보리밥·쌀밥 (셀프)26 ate it
  boribap and ssalbap₩0

  Two rice cookers, barley or white, as much as you want — with big bowls set aside for building a bibimbap

  No charge. **The barley rice runs out if you go late** — two evening visitors say so, one of them missing out on the bibimbap entirely. Four posts went back for a second bowl

To drink

• 매실차 (무료)9 ate it
  maesilcha₩0

  Plum tea sits next to the makgeolli — where the drivers end up

  No charge. Nine drank it and **three independently note it is not too sweet**. One looked around and saw everyone finishing with it

• 막걸리 (무료)8 ate it
  makgeolli₩0

  **There is free makgeolli on the self-service counter.** Twenty-one posts mention it, nearly all of them surprised

  No charge. Of the eight who drank it, the verdicts differ: one found it thicker and sweeter than shop makgeolli, another expected sweet and got strong, a third liked the ice crystals in it. **Three posts say they had driven and had to leave it**

Parking

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

People drive here, and twenty-two of them actually parked. Three options come up: a yard behind the building (two people counted four or five spaces), a patch of empty ground beside it, and the public car park right next door. The public one is free for an hour any time and free outright at lunch — but the posts disagree on what 'lunch' means: 11:30–13:00, 11:30–13:30 and 11:30–14:30 all appear. Two found the building's own spaces tight, one advising you to use the public car park instead and another listing lunchtime parking as the single drawback. A third found the public car park roomy and easy. So it depends.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Only one post says which floor it is on — a September 2026 line about the ground floor making it easy to find. The other twenty-eight never raise the question, which reads like a single-storey shop on a main road nobody thought to describe: they call it roadside, right by the roundabout, on the corner, and not one mentions an upstairs or a basement.

Nobody says whether there is a step or a lip at the door. In twenty-nine posts the words threshold, stairs, ramp, wheelchair, pushchair and lift never appear. One thing is known: a September 2026 post notes the clear sign and that it sits on the ground floor, which made it easy to find. The five posts that brought children say nothing about a pushchair either — one came with a twelve-month-old and used a high chair. Ground floor and step-free are not the same thing.

Nobody writes about the toilets. Whether they are inside, whether they belong to the building, whether they are separate — the word does not appear once in twenty-nine posts. These are writers who named twenty-four different side dishes and counted the parking spaces. That means they had no reason to mention it, not that there is nothing to mention.

No one mentioned: 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 payment4 / 294 of 29 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves4 / 294 of 29 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way21 / 2921 of 29 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Only one post queued, but it is emphatic. A March 2026 visitor missed the opening, waited, found the room full when they first walked in, and was surprised to find people waiting behind them — their advice is to be there at half past eleven on the dot. Going the other way, someone who arrived around one, after the rush, found it calm and comfortable. Nobody else waited, but six posts note how busy it was: two were startled to find it full before six in the evening, one describes a crush, two watched people keep arriving throughout their meal. Only one post raises booking, and only as something to ask about for a group, so whether you can reserve a table we do not know.
• Whether you can take food away is contradicted outright. An August 2026 post states flatly, in its own list of things to know, that takeaway is not possible. But a May post says plenty of people were collecting food to go, and a September one watched one corner of the room busy with packed-lunch orders, guessing the market traders order in. Both were describing what they saw, so ordering a packed lunch and boxing up your leftovers may be two different things. Either way we could not settle it — not one post describes eating this food anywhere but at the table.
• Not one post describes getting here without a car. In all twenty-nine, the words bus, subway, stop and station never appear once. Parking, by contrast, is in twenty-six of them and twenty-two people parked themselves — almost everyone who wrote about this place drove to it. One says it is five minutes out from the new town, and that too means five minutes by car. So whether a bus can get you here is not a no; it is that nobody wrote it down.
• Three people saw a high chair themselves, and the third counted: one. A fourth post lists 'high chair, reservations, group seating' in a row — that is the map listing's own vocabulary copied across, so we did not count it. Five posts came with children; one family was given meatballs and seaweed for the child unprompted. Nobody mentions a changing table.
• Four posts disclose sponsorship, and three of those hide it at the very bottom, inside a link card. Read the post through and you will not see it; it sits in the hashtag line of a preview card the writer attached to their own earlier post, mixed in with the opening hours and the phone number so that it looks like part of the information. Only the fourth says it in the body. A fifth is murkier — 'a local I go to anyway (just happy to be given the chance)' — which never uses the word, so we left it undisclosed. And fifteen posts carry the same five hashtags in the same order. That is the mark of commissioned writing. We still counted them: the side-dish lists differ post by post, so do the orders and the times of day, and every one has a record of eating. But it is worth knowing where the warm words came from.
• Whether it opens at eight or nine is contested. Sixteen posts say nine, two say eight. And one post contradicts itself: its information block says nine, and two lines later it reports reading the board outside the door, which said eight to nine, Monday to Saturday. The one who actually read the board says eight, so either the hours moved recently or the board and the internet disagree — we could not tell which. Sunday splits too: twelve say eleven to two, two say eleven to nine, and those two also copy across a break and a last order pegged to two o'clock, which looks like a transcription slip. The afternoon break and the last orders nobody disputes. If you are going for breakfast, ring and ask which it is.
• The phone number in our register does not match the posts. Nine posts give 044-867-7151 and none of them disagree with each other; the food-licensing register has 044-866-7578. We could not establish which one is answered now. If you are ringing to book or to order a packed lunch, the one in the posts is the more recent — the earliest appearance is March 2026 and the latest September 2026. This one needs a person to check.
• Twenty-nine posts is not twenty-nine people — one blogger wrote twice, in May and September 2026, on different visits (pork the first time, squid the second) with different side dishes on the counter. So it is twenty-nine posts from twenty-eight people. One of the thirty confirmed posts was removed: a write-up of a different cafe in the same township, where this shop appears only as a name in the check-in widget at the bottom. That writer has a separate June post about an actual visit here, and we kept that one.

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Of 308 candidate posts we opened 96 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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