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Yeoljeong Kkochi
열정꼬치 Yeoljeong means passion and kkochi means skewers, so the name reads as 'passion skewers'.
Compiled from 27 blog posts read in fullSources →
Yeoljeong Kkochi is a charcoal-skewer izakaya in the Bukchang-dong food alley near City Hall Station exits 7 and 8. It opens at 5 p.m. and runs to 2 a.m. People order skewer sets (seven skewers for 27,000 won, the two-person Kansai set for 42,000) or single skewers (3,500 to 6,000 won), add oden hotpot (22,000) or basil-wasabi cured mackerel (19,000), and drink draft beer or sours. We read 30 posts from 17 August to 13 October 2026. Twenty-eight describe a visit. We set aside one post about a different restaurant and one multi-stop itinerary.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 중구 세종대로14길 17 (북창동, 1층)17 Sejong-daero 14-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-777-2118
- Typical spend₩3,500 – ₩79,000
- From the station11 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 76 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 21 posts: 19 wrote Daily 17:00–02:00, 2 wrote 17:00–02:00.
| Daily | 17:00–02:00 | 19 of 21 posts |
|---|---|---|
| No day given | 17:00–02:00 | 2 of 21 posts |
| Last order | 01:30 | 13 of 13 posts |
Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.
What sets it apart
- A free starter arrives once you sit down. Twenty-two posts mention it, and it is nearly always the same pair: a dish of beans or edamame and yuzu-scented pickled radish. Several posts also note shichimi, yuzu salt and pepper on every table.
- Skewers are grilled over charcoal behind the counter seats at the back, and ten posts say they watched it happen. Two posts note there is no grill at the table, as everything comes out cooked, and say the room was smoke-free as a result.
- Thirteen posts describe tables alongside counter seats, and none says the room is counter-only. Eleven call it spacious. One says it is not especially large but seats more than ten tables, and another found the tables close together and the room a bit noisy.
- Five posts say you order from a kiosk at the table.
1 more
- Eleven posts put it about three minutes' walk from City Hall Station, with one giving the route as the lane by the Twosome Place near exit 7. One writer walked over from Hoehyeon Station exit 5.
What 27 bloggers said
girin saengmaekju
Roomy
We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (11) and “Crispy batter” (7).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Spicy | yes 2 · no 2 |
|---|
Things you can check on site
- Complimentary starter 22 of 27 posts
- Beer served 17 of 27 posts
- Seats to sit and eat 13 of 27 posts
- Reachable by transit 11 of 27 posts
- Open kitchen 10 of 27 posts
- Has tables 10 of 27 posts
- Self-order screen 5 of 27 posts
- Toilet inside 5 of 27 posts
- Cooked to order 5 of 27 posts
- In a basement saying it is not 2 of 27 posts
- Meat arrives fully grilled from the kitchen — no grill at the table 2 of 27 posts
- Origin labelling posted 2 of 27 posts
- Separate restrooms 2 of 27 posts
- Takes reservations 2 of 27 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 2 of 27 posts
- Corkage free — bring your own drink 1 of 27 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
4 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 4 of 27 posts |
|---|
Four posts state there is no parking, and none says otherwise. One names a paid lot two minutes away at 2,500 won for the first 30 minutes and 5,000 won an hour. Other posts that say 'no parking' copied it from the listing, so we did not count them.
Who came, and with whom
- With a friend 5 of 27 posts
- Group visit 3 of 27 posts
- Date 3 of 27 posts
- Family visit 2 of 27 posts
- Came with children 1 of 27 posts
- Solo visit 1 of 27 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
Eleven posts put it about three minutes' walk from City Hall Station, with one giving the route as the lane by the Twosome Place near exit 7. One writer walked over from Hoehyeon Station exit 5.
Getting inside
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 2 (of 27 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 5 of 27 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 2 of 27 posts |
Two posts say first-hand that the restaurant is on the ground floor. Apart from the '1st floor' in the address, no other post mentions floors.
We don't know whether there is a step at the entrance or whether a wheelchair or stroller can get in. That doesn't mean there isn't one; nobody wrote about it.
Five posts say the toilet is inside the restaurant, and two of them say it is separated by gender. One gave the toilet five stars and called it spotless.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 27 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves2 of 27 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way23 of 27 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 15 |
| 2026-10 | 11 |
What we do not know
- No post gives a waiting time in a queue. One saw people standing outside at opening who went in first, another waited for the 5 p.m. weekend opening, and two booked through Naver. Several posts mention it being nearly full even on weekday evenings.
- Two posts say the skewers take a while because they are grilled to order, and a third only says they may be a little slow. No one gave a time.
- Posts disagree about the heat. Two found the oden hotpot spicy. Two said their hotpot wasn't hot: one oden and one 'spicy' motsunabe. One called it only faintly spicy. Oden comes mild or spicy, and motsunabe spicy or plain, so it probably depends on which version was ordered.
- Three posts called it cheap or good value, and one found it somewhat pricey with small portions for the money. No post gave a total bill.
- The weekday happy hour gives either two Kirin draft beers or ten fried wings free. Most posts say it applies to arrivals between 5 and 7 p.m. on weekdays, but one says before 6 p.m. One weekend visitor didn't get it, while another got it on the public holiday before Chuseok, so holidays are unclear.
- Twenty-one posts give the same opening hours: daily from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., last order 1:30 a.m. Most of them copied this from the Naver listing. Two posts guessed from the menu that there might be lunch service, but nobody went at lunchtime.
- Many posts list the phone number as 0507-1466-4624. Two posts say they booked through Naver Booking.
- Visitors came in many combinations: five with friends, three with a partner or spouse, two with family (one of them with children), three in groups, and one alone.
- Many posts share the same phrasing ('every skewer handmade daily', 'three minutes from exit 8') and the same set of hashtags, which suggests commissioned content. Only two disclose sponsorship, and two say they paid their own way. We treated 'handmade daily' and 'grilled to order over charcoal' as the restaurant's own claims and did not count them as evidence.
Sources (27)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 285 candidate posts we opened 69 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.