Gilpost · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong

Busanjib

부산집 A forty-year-old charcoal grill in Donggyo-dong where live hagfish and freshwater eel are cleaned at the counter and cooked at your table.

Korean · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong

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

Busanjib is a charcoal eel-and-hagfish grill on the main road through Donggyo-dong, a few minutes' walk from exit 1 of Hongik University Station. It opened in 1985 and is in its fortieth year, run by a grandmother who came up from Busan. Live hagfish, cleaned at the counter and grilled over charcoal, is so much the point that all eight posts we read ate it. Freshwater eel, conger and squid go on the same grill; cold buckwheat noodles and frankfurters are the sides. The room is a single ground-floor space of about 25 square metres, its wall hung with signatures of visiting celebrities. The posts we read run from January 2025 to September 2026. Take care finding it — there are four branches of an entirely separate izakaya chain called Cheolgil Busanjib around Hongdae and Mapo. This is not one of them. This is the charcoal grill at 18 World Cup-buk-ro.

The basics

2 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 5 posts: 3 wrote Daily 16:30–22:30.

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 kkomjangeo sogeumgui (꼼장어 소금구이) — 8 of 8 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

• 꼼장어 소금구이8 ate it
  kkomjangeo sogeumgui₩28,000 · ₩34,000 · ₩45,000 · ₩55,000

  The house dish — **all eight posts ate it.** Live hagfish, cleaned at the counter and put straight on charcoal. Two writers describe the roe bursting out as it cooks; four make a point that it is never frozen. Three posts mention the smell hagfish can have, and all three say this one has none

  **Imported and domestic are priced apart** — one writer copied the board: ₩28,000 and ₩45,000 for imported (one and two portions), ₩34,000 and ₩55,000 for domestic. Not one post says which they were served

• 민물장어5 ate it
  minmul jangeo₩30,000

  Freshwater eel over charcoal. Three writers say salt is the way to eat it; three used the house sauce or a vinegared chilli paste. Two recommend grilling it before the hagfish

  The board price copied by one writer is ₩30,000 a portion. Two posts had it as part of the Ni-kang Nae-kang set, paired with a portion of hagfish

• 오징어구이3 ate it
  ojingeo-gui₩18,000

  Marinated squid on the same grill. Two writers use it to break up the oil of the eel; one suggests it for anyone who cannot face the hagfish

  ₩18,000 on the copied board. One writer notes the squid is not frozen

• 양념 꼼장어2 ate it
  yangnyeom kkomjangeo

  The same hagfish in a sweet-hot marinade. Two writers advise starting with the salt version and moving to this one later

  No post gives a price. One warns that the marinade burns at the edges unless you keep trimming it as it cooks

• 니캉내캉 세트2 ate it
  Ni-kang Nae-kang set₩60,000

  A set pairing one portion of freshwater eel with one of hagfish. Two posts ordered it, both at ₩60,000 — one party of four took two sets for ₩120,000

  Whether this is the only set, we do not know — one writer says sets work out cheaper, and no post names another one

• 바다장어1 ate it
  bada jangeo₩20,000

  One writer, the only one who says they ate it, calls it lighter and leaner than the freshwater eel — so that is one person's word, not a pattern. The other three only note that it is on the menu

  ₩20,000 on the board copied by one writer, marked imported

Sides, and what comes with it

• 비빔국수4 ate it
  bibim-guksu₩5,000

  A side. Four posts ate it and all four took it last, to clear the palate. Two mention sesame oil; one says the sauce is the owner's own

  All four give ₩5,000. One writer was given a small bowl on the house because their party was celebrating a birthday

• 후랑크 소시지2 ate it
  frankfurter sausage₩3,000 · ₩12,000

  Grilled alongside everything else. Two posts ordered it

  **The prices disagree.** The writer who copied the board gives ₩3,000 for two; the writer who actually paid gives ₩12,000 for four — ₩3,000 each. A third ordered "two portions (four pieces)" and gives no figure. **From the posts alone we cannot tell which is current**

To drink

• 소주4 ate it
  soju

  Four posts drank soju; six pair the food with it in writing — that is how many treat this as a place to drink at, with the grill as the excuse

  No post gives a price

• 복분자1 ate it
  bokbunja

  One post drank bokbunja, a black raspberry wine, on the old pairing logic that it goes with eel

  No price, and no post lists what else there is to drink

Parking

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

One person actually looked at the parking. A January 2025 writer reports one space in front of the shop and one behind — two cars. Another post contains the words "parking available," but that line sits inside a block of opening hours and takeaway notes copied wholesale from a listing, and the writer never says they drove. The other six posts do not mention parking at all. Whether it is still two spaces, whether it costs anything, whether there is a public lot nearby — we do not know.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

The register lists it on the ground floor, and the check-in address reads "18 World Cup-buk-ro, 1F." But not one writer mentions a step or a staircase — whether the door is level with the pavement, whether anything goes up or down inside. Nobody says there is an upstairs or a basement, and nobody says there isn't.

Nor does anyone write about the step at the door. Wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold — none of those words appears once in the eight posts. Whether you can get in without a step, we do not know. If it matters, call 02-336-5523 before you go.

No post says a word about the toilet. Whether it is inside the room or out in the building, whether it is shared between men and women — nothing, across all eight. That is not an answer of "there isn't one." It means nobody wrote it down.

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 / 83 of 8 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way5 / 85 of 8 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• The posts disagree about what this costs. Three lean expensive — "not cheap," "not light by today's standards," and a party of four who paid ₩137,000 for two sets and sides and came away unsure they would return at that price. One calls it good value and comparatively cheap — and that is the oldest post, from January 2025; the rest are from 2026. Whether the prices moved or the writers simply differ, the posts cannot tell us. The frankfurters flatly contradict each other: the writer who copied the board gives ₩3,000 for two, the writer who paid gives ₩12,000 for four.
• The place is changing hands. A customer returning after eight years wrote in February 2026 that the owner had turned eighty, had hurt her back in a fall, and had told him she would work until the middle of the year and then hand over to her daughter. Another February post and one from March also describe the daughter as the second generation, and the March writer found three generations in the room, granddaughter included. So the long talks with the grandmother that several of these posts are built around may no longer be on offer. The posts from May, June and September 2026 say nothing about who is running the room.
• Two different closing times are on record. Five of the eight posts give hours: three say 16:30–22:30 daily with last orders at 21:30, two say 16:30–23:00. The dates do not sort it out — the two saying 23:00 are the oldest post, from January 2025, and the newest, from September 2026, with the three saying 22:30 in between. All five agree on 16:30 opening. This is an evening-only place; arriving in the afternoon is a wasted trip. One post says it never closes for a holiday; none names a weekly rest day. All five copied an information panel — nobody reports reading the door.
• Only two of the eight write about getting here, and they agree: three minutes on foot from exit 1 of Hongik University Station, down towards Donggyo-dong from the big crossing below the university. One warns the sign is dim enough to walk past; another found the sign unlit altogether and assumed the place was shut. Not one post mentions a bus.
• Not one writer reports queuing. One found the room nearly empty, but was told by the owner it was because the sign had gone dark and people assumed they were closed — which says nothing about a normal night. Another advises allowing for a crowd at peak hours without saying they waited. Whether this is a place you have to wait for, we have no grounds to say. No post mentions booking either.
• Eight posts, eight people — no blogger wrote twice. None declares a sponsorship; three state they paid their own way and five say nothing either way. Two of the eight read differently from the rest: one is a long literary essay that works through five dishes with no price, no companion and no date; the other is a search-shaped piece with a table of contents that ends on "would I return? two hundred per cent." Both describe eating and so both are counted, but neither gives a single price. What we know about money comes from the two writers who reported a bill and the one who copied the board.

Sources (8)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [마포/홍대 맛집] 임영웅 다녀간 40년 전통 민물·꼼장어 전문 '부산.... 2026-09-27 · 오늘도 Yun.୨♡୧
2. [술빚는여행자] 서울 마포 | 숯불 위에서 부산이 잠시 마포로 왔다_.... 2026-06-19 · 술빚는 여행자
3. 홍대 민물장어 꼼장어 맛집 부산집 솔직후기 2026-05-16 · 슬기로운 하루
4. 홍대입구역 1번출구 40년 전통 부산집 민물 꼼장어 전문 2026-03-07 · 더 넓은 세상을 향하여
5. 홍대 맛집 l 홍대입구역 장어 꼼장어 맛집 부산집 내돈내산 후기 2026-02-25 · 전국 숙박업 전문 공인중개사 l 만실언니
6. 홍대입구역 40년 전통의 부산집 민물 꼼장어 전문점 2026-02-16 · 깡주
7. 홍대앞 동교동 부산집 꼼장어 구이, 40년 전통 연예인 맛집으로 GO GO~ 2026-02-14 · 형이야~~
8. 가성비좋은 연남동 장어맛집 "부산집" 내돈내산 2025-01-13 · Minky Worldꨄ

Of 396 candidate posts we opened 118 and kept 8 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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