Gilpost · Gangdong-gu, Cheonho-dong

Kongsim, Seoul Gubeundari-yeok-jeom

콩심 서울굽은다리역점 Kongsim means roughly 'the heart of the bean' — a chain of Jeonju-style bean-sprout soup canteens; this is the Gubeundari station branch, open from half past five in the morning, where the rice and side dishes refill from a self-service bar.

Korean · Gangdong-gu, Cheonho-dong

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

Kongsim's Gubeundari branch is a bean-sprout-soup canteen on the ground floor of a building on Yangjae-daero, four or five minutes' walk from exit 1 of Gubeundari station on line 5. It opens at half past five in the morning and shuts at ten at night. The plain bowl is ₩6,000; the dearest thing on the board, pressed pork, is ₩13,000. Rice and the side dishes — radish kimchi, cabbage kimchi, green chilli, salted squid — come from a self-service bar, as much as you want. All five writers mention that bar, and with the prices it is how every one of them explains the place. Beyond the soup there are bibimbaps, pancakes, hotpots and drinking dishes, and one writer notes the evening crowd having a drink with dinner. It is one branch of a national chain. The five posts we read run from March 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

2 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 4 posts: 3 wrote 05:30–22:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is dolsot upgrade (돌솥으로 변경) — 3 of 5 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

• 콩나물국밥2 ate it
  kongnamul-gukbap₩6,000

  The cheapest thing here and the reason people come — ₩6,000 in all five posts. Bean sprouts and rice come boiling in the pot, with a raw egg on the side. One writer warns how hot it arrives

  **One of those two ate it on an earlier visit:** 7249 ordered a stone-pot bibimbap this time but posted a photo of the spicy version from a previous one, saying they always used to have the soup. Whether that spicy one is the kimchi version on the board, the post does not say. On the broth the five do not disagree — clean, sharp, no sourness

• 김치 콩나물국밥2 ate it
  kimchi kongnamul-gukbap₩7,000

  The same soup with kimchi in it, a thousand won more. Both writers who ate it came to clear a hangover; neither found it sour, and both call the heat about right

  Two posts agree on ₩7,000, in March and October 2025. The September 2026 writer ate it and gives no price

• 쭈꾸미비빔밥1 ate it
  jjukkumi bibimbap₩8,500 · ₩9,000

  Baby octopus over rice, stone pot optional. In the one post where it was eaten it went down before it could be photographed, and the eater went back to the self-service bar for more rice

  ₩8,500 from the board, ₩9,000 paid for the stone pot

• 제육비빔밥1 ate it
  jeyuk bibimbap₩8,500 · ₩9,000

  Stir-fried pork over rice, stone pot optional. The writer who had it took the pot and liked the noise it made; seaweed flakes, cabbage, pork and bean sprouts, with the sauce added separately

  **The only complaint about quantity anywhere in these five posts** — a little short on pork, though the rest balanced out, and a note to ask for extra seaweed next time. ₩8,500 is the board price; ₩9,000 is what that writer actually paid for the pot

• 만두 콩나물국밥1 ate it
  mandu kongnamul-gukbap₩7,000

  The soup with dumplings in it. The one writer who ate it fished the dumplings out for a photograph and recommends it when you want more than the plain bowl

  **That writer calls it a 'dumpling bean-sprout hangover soup', which leaves it unclear whether it was the ₩7,000 bowl on the board or the ₩7,500 one with kimchi.** The price here comes from the other post, which photographed the board

• 전주비빔밥1 ate it
  Jeonju bibimbap₩7,500 · ₩8,000

  You can have it in a stone pot. The one writer who ate it took that option and reckons the rice alone at two bowls' worth, with plenty of vegetables; you mix in the chilli paste yourself

  ₩7,500 is the plain bowl and ₩8,000 the stone pot, both from the October 2025 board

• 만두 김치 콩나물국밥named in 1
  mandu kimchi kongnamul-gukbap₩7,500

  Dumplings and kimchi together. It appears once, on a photographed menu board, and nobody writes about eating it

• 황태 콩나물국밥named in 1
  hwangtae kongnamul-gukbap₩7,500

  Made with dried pollack. It appears once, on a photographed menu board, and nobody writes about eating it

• 굴국밥named in 1
  gul-gukbap₩8,500

  An oyster version, the dearest of the soups here. It appears once, on a photographed menu board, and nobody writes about eating it

• 떡만두국named in 1
  tteok-manduguk₩6,500

  Rice cake and dumpling soup. One writer points at the board price as proof of how cheap the place is; nobody writes about eating it

• 김치찌개named in 1
  kimchi-jjigae₩8,000

  On the board. One writer holds up the ₩8,000 as hard to find these days; nobody writes about eating it

• 검은콩 콩국수 (계절)named in 1
  geomeunkong kongguksu₩8,500

  **Marked seasonal on the board,** so it may not be there. It appears once, and nobody writes about eating it

Sides, and what comes with it

• 돌솥으로 변경3 ate it
  dolsot upgrade₩500 · ₩2,000

  An add-on that puts the bibimbap in a hot stone pot. Three of the five paid for it

  **The surcharge does not agree.** An August 2025 post gives ₩500 and shows an ₩8,500 bowl paid at ₩9,000; a September 2026 post gives ₩2,000; an April 2025 post says only that they added it. **Which is current, we cannot say** — the later figure is the higher one, but only one writer gives it

• 통오징어1 ate it
  tong-ojingeo₩12,000

  A whole squid, from the drinking half of the board. One party added it to two bowls of soup and found it good enough

  **Their one gripe:** it arrived not fully cut, and they fetched scissors to finish the job. Two bowls at ₩7,000 plus this came to ₩26,000, by their account

• 김치전1 ate it
  kimchi-jeon₩9,000

  One party added it to a soup and a bibimbap, and calls it far bigger and thinner than ₩9,000 should buy

  The name and price come from one September 2026 post. The October 2025 board lists a buckwheat pancake at the same price and no kimchi one

• 편육named in 1
  pyeonyuk₩13,000

  Pressed boiled pork, the dearest thing on the board. It appears once, and nobody writes about eating it

• 두루치기named in 1
  duruchigi

  One writer names it among the dishes that draw evening drinkers. **Nobody gives a price**

• 코다리조림named in 1
  kodari-jorim

  Half-dried pollack braised in sauce, named as something the evening drinkers order. **Nobody gives a price**

• 떡갈비named in 1
  tteokgalbi₩7,500

  It appears once, on a photographed board, and nobody writes about eating it

• 메밀전named in 1
  memil-jeon₩9,000

  It appears once, on a photographed board, and nobody writes about eating it

Parking

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

Only one writer describes the parking with their own eyes — a dedicated lot behind the restaurant, and, at the end of the post, that parking here is easy. We have not counted the word 'parking available' in the other two posts, which carries it inside a block of address, phone, hours and takeaway, the shape of a copied listing. So how many cars fit, where to go when it is full, and whether anything is charged, we do not know. Nobody says they drove.

Who came, and with whom

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

Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words do not appear once in the five posts. The licensed address is a ground-floor unit, and one writer notes how wide the frontage looks, but whether there is a step at the door, and how many, nobody looked. No post mentions coming with a child, or a high chair.

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 / 52 of 5 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way3 / 53 of 5 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• One person was handed a dish that had not been washed properly — a March 2025 post, describing a grain of rice stuck to the side plate they had just served themselves into, and saying that while they are not usually fussy this was past what they would scrape off. The same writer had to fetch scissors because their whole squid arrived uncut. None of the five says the place was clean — not the opposite, simply that nobody raises it. That writer's own conclusion was that they ate well regardless and would come again.
• It opens at half past five in the morning. Four posts give the hours and all four say 05:30–22:00; three add a last order at 21:20. Only one names the days — a September 2026 post writes Monday to Sunday. The other three give the clock and nothing else. No post names a closing day, and none says it never closes — which means nobody wrote about it, not that it never shuts. Nor does anyone mention a mid-afternoon break. One thing worth adding: older posts we did not use as evidence, from 2019 to 2022, carry '24 hours' in their titles. All four recent posts put closing at ten, so those days appear to be over — but we did not read those older posts.
• Not one of the five mentions a toilet — inside or out in the building, shared or separate. That is not the same as there not being one; it is that we could not count it.
• Not one of the five says which floor it is on, or whether there are stairs. One writer posts a photo captioned simply 'the entrance'; another says the sign is easy to read and the room looks wide even from outside. Neither goes near the question of levels or steps. The licensed address is unit 101 of the building, which reads as ground floor — but that is the register talking, not somebody who went. Whether there is an upstairs, a step up to the door, or a lift, the five posts are silent.
• Only one of the five says who they came with — a boyfriend, in the August 2025 post. The rest write 'we' and order for two or three without saying who the others were, and nobody says they came alone. Two posts do talk about eating alone, but both are describing other customers: a soup canteen draws solo diners, which is why so many tables seat two; the regulars are older people and office workers from nearby, and that makes it an easy place to eat by yourself. Those are observations of the room, not accounts of the writer's own meal. No post mentions bringing a child, and none describes a group.
• All five posts are accounts of visits, and we dropped none of them. None discloses sponsorship; two state outright that they paid their own way; the other three say nothing about money. Five posts here means five people and five different blogs — March, April, August and October 2025 and September 2026, each ordering something different, with nothing to suggest a commissioned batch. Five is a small number, though, and it is why so many of the boxes below are empty. Whether the place takes bookings, and whether there is wifi, nobody writes either.

Sources (5)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [강동]주차편하고 밥무한리필의 한식 맛집_콩심 서울굽은다리역점 2026-09-26 · ෆ sson_everything ෆ
2. 웨이팅있는 굽은다리역 콩나물국밥 콩심 2025-10-17 · 규 · via Daum
3. 강동구 굽은다리 한식 맛집 콩심 굽은다리역점 콩나물 국밥, 돌솥비.... 2025-08-21 · 제리또또의 행복한 일상
4. [가성비 갑 점심 한잔]콩심 굽은다리역점(점심맛집,콩나물국밥,가성.... 2025-04-14 · 오늘의 리빙 다이어리
5. 강동구 굽은다리역 콩나물국밥집 콩심 내돈내산 2025-03-09 · 삐용의 일상 이모저모 · via Daum

We opened all 148 candidate posts and kept 5 as evidence.

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