Gilpost · Jongno-gu, Changsin-dong
Horaengi Ppyeodagwi
호랭이 뼈다귀 A small pork-backbone soup shop right outside Dongdaemun station, open until two in the morning.
Bunsik (snack food) · Jongno-gu, Changsin-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Horaengi Ppyeodagwi is a pork-backbone soup shop at 318 Jong-ro, directly outside exit 4 of Dongdaemun station. It opens in the daytime and closes at two in the morning, shuts from three to five on weekdays, and on weekends does not open until five in the evening. It is a small room — six or seven tables, most of them for two. Every one of the nine writers we read ate the bone soup, and all five who noted the price paid ten thousand won. It arrives under a great deal of perilla leaf and ground perilla seed; pickled radish and dressed bean sprouts come free, with self-serve refills. Besides the bone soup there is half a chicken, poached or in noodles, and a separate row of pancakes, omelettes and hotpots meant for drinking over in the evening. It is one branch of a small chain whose original is in Euljiro. The posts we read run from September 2024 to May 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 종로구 종로 318 (창신동) 318 Jong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-764-9888 |
| Typical spend | ₩9,000 – ₩10,000 |
| Floor area | 14 m² |
| Status | In business |
7 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 6 posts: 4 wrote Weekdays 11:00–02:00, 3 wrote Weekends 17:00–02:00, 2 wrote 11:00–02:00.
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–02:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2025-11 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Weekends | 17:00–02:00 3 of 6 posts last seen 2025-11 |
| Open | 11:00–02:00 2 of 6 posts last seen 2025-02 | |
| Break | Weekdays | 15:00–17:00 2 of 4 posts last seen 2025-11 |
| Break | 15:00–17:00 2 of 4 posts last seen 2025-02 |
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
- It is a chain, and the original is in Euljiro. Two writers say so — one was startled to learn there are several around Seoul, the other places this one between Dongdaemun and Dongmyo and the flagship elsewhere. This matters for reading about it: search the name and you will get the Euljiro shop, whose posts quote prices for dishes this branch does not list. Everything on this page is about the one shop at 318 Jong-ro.
- It is small. One writer counts six or seven tables; another counts precisely — three for two, three for four. Three things follow. One post warns that a large group will struggle to sit. Another notes that there is no single-seat table, so eating alone at peak hours may feel awkward — where other writers call it easy to eat alone, this one looked at the furniture and saw it differently. And a party of four who ordered four soups record that the earthenware pots ran out and theirs came in hotpot pans. Two writers walked past the door before finding it.
- The broth is clear, for this kind of soup. Three writers say so in their own words — clearer than other bone-soup houses, not claggy, closer to clean than to concentrated. What it has instead is a great deal of perilla: two say the ground seed is the first thing you smell, and one counts seven whole leaves laid across the top. One post's verdict is simply that you will be happy here if you like perilla. A fourth reads it differently, finding it thick with a chilli edge that keeps it from cloying.
- The meat is generous, by several accounts — plenty of it, a lot of it, enough of it. More writers still remark that it falls off the bone without work. One dissents about the liquid, though: the bowl comes only half full of broth, which he says is fine unless you mean to stir rice into it, and short if you are the sort who drinks the soup. If rice in the broth is why you are going, that one line is the only warning we have.
- People who work nearby come back. One writer went three times during a month posted near Dongmyo; one calls it one of her regular lunches from the office; one says she looks for it every time she is in Dongmyo. More of these are working visits than sightseeing ones — another was on a business trip and went on a local's recommendation. Against that, one writer ends by saying she will not return, and it was the side dishes, not the soup, that decided her.
What 9 bloggers said
We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (6) and “Large portions” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Reachable by transit | 7 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Independent, not a chain | 2 of 9 posts — saying it is not |
| Free refills | 1 of 9 posts |
| Beer served | 1 of 9 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 ppyeodagwi haejang-guk (뼈다귀해장국 (뚝배기뼈다귀)) — 9 of 9 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 cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 9 posts |
|---|
Nobody parked a car. Three posts touch on parking and two of them do it in a single line in the block of details at the top: no parking, crossed out. The third adds a sentence of her own — the shop has no car park, so use one of the public lots nearby — but she did not drive either. Which lot, how far, how much: no post says. A small shopfront on a main road probably has nowhere to put a car, but we have not checked.
Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 1 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Group visit | 1 of 9 posts |
Getting there
Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.
Getting inside
Not one post mentions a step, a ramp, a lift, a wheelchair or a pushchair. Nine writers counted the tables and not one of them wrote a line about getting in, or about how much room there is between those tables. This does not mean the place cannot be entered; it means we do not know — and on this of all questions, a wrong answer sends someone on a wasted journey.
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 themselves3 of 9 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way6 of 9 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 11 posts we gathered, 2 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-02 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Why nine and not thirteen. Thirteen posts came to us under this name; we removed four. · Two are not about this shop. Both are round-ups of many restaurants, and in both the Horaengi Ppyeodagwi entry is the Euljiro original — one checks in at the Euljiro address and calls it the pride of Euljiro, the other gives its location as Euljiro along with that branch's map link and its own price for an aged-kimchi hotpot. This is a chain, so the name alone does not tell the branches apart. Neither post says a word about 318 Jong-ro. · One is a copy of the Naver listing. It lays out the hours one weekday per line and reproduces the listing's keyword tallies — fifty-one visitors said the food was good, and so on. There is no record of anyone eating. · One contains no record of eating. It is long and headed into sections, one of them titled “what I actually ate,” but it gives the address only as “near Dongdaemun station,” never says what was ordered, and carries no price at all. The six “signature dishes” it lists are the menu board, and of the hotpots it says only that they *looked* good. Thirty hashtags at the bottom. Nothing declares a sponsorship, but this is not the account of a visit. The nine are nine different people — no blogger wrote twice. Not one declares a sponsorship, and three state that they paid their own way (one posts the receipt). There is no cluster of near-identical posts from a single day: the nine are spread across twenty months.
- One writer went twice, in the hours the shop advertises, and found it shut. She got in on her third attempt, and says plainly that the times she trusted came from the Naver listing and the door was locked anyway (November 2024). The hours on this page are what six posts recorded and the six agree with each other, but we cannot promise the door is open when they say it is. No post mentions a weekly closing day. The one thing six posts agree on is the two-in-the-morning close, so that end of the day is the firmer one.
- Both “clean” and “it smells a bit” are here. Two writers call it clean without qualification, and one photographs the cutlery to show the care taken over it. But another writes that the building is old enough that you may catch a smell, though the cutlery is well looked after — which reads as a remark about the building rather than the kitchen. Since both were said, we record both. Two separate writers volunteered the point about the cutlery.
- They disagree about value. Two writers call it good for the money — the shop in general, and the pancakes in particular. A third found the sides poor value, rating the corn cheese and potato pancake below the soups she had. Only two prices are confirmed: ten thousand won for the bone soup, from five posts, and nine thousand for the chicken noodles, from one — and both come from posts written before May 2025. Prices for the hotpots and the scorched-rice soup appear only in the post that copied the Naver listing, so we have not carried them. Which means we do not know what the sides or the hotpots cost now.
- One writer's verdict is “fine.” He will not say that either the bone soup or the chicken noodles was wonderful — plain good, no more — and then adds that being able to eat plain good food at that hour was worth something, counting the scarcity of open kitchens at three in the morning as part of the value. The others praise the broth and the meat. We note it because it was said once, and it is a real distinction: going because a place is open and going because the food is good are not the same errand.
- Not one post mentions the lavatory. Across nine accounts there is nothing on whether it is inside or out, whether it is separate for men and women, or what state it is in. Several mention the room's size and the age of the building, but we will not guess from that. This is not “there isn't one” — it is “nobody wrote it down.”
- No post says what floor it is on. Two place it right on the main road and directly outside the station exit, which suggests you walk in off the street, but nobody writes “ground floor” and nobody mentions a step or a stair. On the outside they agree it is hard to miss at night: a big red sign, a retro front, one writer calling it something out of Hansel and Gretel.
Sources (9)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 동묘앞역 식당 호랭이 뼈다귀 동대문역 해장 2026-05-04 · ♥ 으내의 발카나라 ♥ · via Daum
- 내돈내산 동묘앞역 점메추 맛집 [호랭이 뼈다귀] 2025-11-11 · 뭉콩이네
- 내돈내산 서울 종로구 창신동 동대문역 한식 맛집 호랭이뼈다귀 뚝.... 2025-05-26 · 빌딩전문가
- 서울 창신동 맛집 호랭이 뼈다귀 동대문역 뼈해장국 2025-02-24 · 한 폭의 추억을 담다
- [서울-동대문] 뼈다귀 전문 "호랭이뼈다귀" 2025-02-16 · 맛만 보는 집 · via Daum
- 동묘 맛집 호랭이 뼈다귀 뼈해장국 맛집 2024-12-17 · 골목먹대장
- [서울 동묘] "호랑이 뼈다귀" : 동묘에서 깔끔하고 맛있는 집은 여기 여기!!입니다. 2024-12-07 · 당무디의 하루 먹고, 하루 놀고 · via Daum
- 동묘/동대문, 뼈다귀해장국 맛집 호랭이뼈다귀(반백숙삼계탕) 2024-11-28 · 낙톼 · via Daum
- [동대문맛집] 동대문 점심 맛집 뼈해장국 맛집 ‘호랭이뼈다귀’ 2024-09-29 · 우당탕탕 취미부자 · via Daum
Of 307 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 9 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.