Gilpost · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong
Godeungae
고등애 A fish house a minute from Hongik University Station, where grilled and braised mackerel feed the lunch crowd and sashimi platters fill the evening tables.
Korean · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Godeungae is a Korean fish house on the ground floor at 182-3 Donggyo-ro, one block into the lanes from exit 1 at Hongik University Station. The licence dates to 1985. By day it feeds office workers grilled and braised mackerel, raw-fish rice bowls and roe stews; by evening the tables fill with platters of sashimi and drink. The stews arrive in earthenware pots with rice included. Monday to Saturday, closed Sundays, and shut between three and five in the afternoon. The posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 마포구 동교로 182-3 (동교동, 1층) 182-3 Donggyo-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-334-7612 |
| Typical spend | ₩13,000 – ₩100,000 |
| Floor area | 40 m² |
| Status | In business |
5 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 7 posts: 4 wrote Mon–Sat 11:00–22:00.
| Open | Mon–Sat | 11:00–22:00 4 of 7 posts last seen 2026-07 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–17:00 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-07 | |
| Closed | Sunday 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-07 |
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.
These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. 
Place — check hours
What sets it apart
- Everyone who mentions getting here says the same thing: it is close. They measure it differently — one gives 98 metres, one a minute's walk, one under five minutes, one simply that you cannot miss it — but all count from the same exit. The landmark they repeat is the cinema: the lane behind it. One notes the convenience store next door. Two say they pass the place on the way to work and had been meaning to go in.
- The accounts of waiting split by hour. One writer arrived at noon on a weekday, found the room nearly full and waited twenty minutes; another, in the week after Christmas, says flatly that you queue. But one came here because there was no queue — two nearby sashimi houses had hour-long waits on a freezing night, she searched in a hurry, and sat down straight away. Her title reads: for people worn out by waiting. It reads less like disagreement than like the noon rush — both the crowded accounts are from lunchtime, and a third writer notes that the room filled up right after she sat down.
- Order sashimi and the free dishes cover the table. Four posts list what came, and they overlap: raw oysters (two), half-dried Pacific saury (one, in season), steamed skate or other steamed fish (two, both calling the flesh soft), grilled mackerel (two), plus cockles, poached octopus, grilled Spanish mackerel, pickled shallots and dressed aubergine once each. One writer was already delighted before the fish arrived; another says the free dishes alone would carry a round of drinks; a third, who normally ignores them at sashimi houses, could not here. One caveat: the free dishes come only if the platter you order is sized to your party. The side dishes with the set meals draw a different response — cucumber, bean sprouts and kimchi, praised by one writer who refilled them three times, and dismissed by another as flat and over-seasoned, not to her taste.
- People come here in groups. Four of the eleven came with several others and two with a friend: a whole office out for lunch, three colleagues after work, four at a year-end gathering, a birthday. Nobody came alone. On the room: one writer notes all table seating, no private rooms, but screens and partitions between tables; another that there is a long table kept for parties. One finds the evenings loud with work dinners; another, off the main Hongdae drag, found it quiet enough for a real conversation — the first was there at dinner, the second at a slacker hour.
- Prices have moved. The raw-fish rice bowl is ₩13,000 in an August 2025 post and ₩15,000 in one from May 2026. Grilled mackerel is ₩13,000 in August 2025, and ₩15,000 in a September 2026 roundup — a post we excluded from the count, though it still shows which way the number went. Against that, the middle sashimi platter is ₩80,000 in January 2025 and ₩80,000 in January 2026. The verdicts split too: a writer who ordered four dishes for an office lunch calls it far from cheap, while one who had walked past for years assuming it was dear came out saying the quality made it a bargain. Set meals at ₩13,000–15,000, sashimi from ₩80,000 — and the two remarks stop contradicting each other.
What 11 bloggers said
We read all 11 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (5) and “Would return” (3).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Reachable by transit | 5 of 11 posts |
|---|---|
| Complimentary starter | 4 of 11 posts |
| Takeout | 1 of 11 posts |
| A minimum number of portions on the first order | 1 of 11 posts |
| Free refills | 1 of 11 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 11 posts |
| Toilet inside | 1 of 11 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 11 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 modeum-hoe (모둠회) — 5 of 11 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
Sides, and what comes with it
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 4 of 11 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 2 of 11 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 1 of 11 posts |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 11 posts |
It is at street level — but not one post says so from having stood there. What we have is the licence address, which ends "1F", and the check-in widget, which prints the same line in all eleven. Oddly, the only first-hand description of the floor is in the posts we threw out: all seventeen tonkatsu reviews say you find Godeungae at street level and take the small staircase beside it. Whether Godeungae's own door is level with the pavement, or has a step or two of its own, appears neither in those seventeen nor in the eleven we counted.
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. No one mentions a step at the door, a ramp, or how wide the entrance is. One writer reproduces a block of listing information — groups welcome, takeaway, separate lavatories, no parking — but it is copied from the map entry and says nothing about access. We know it is at street level and nothing more. If it matters, ring and ask.
One person looked at the lavatory. She reports that it opens off the back of the room and that men's and women's are separate — and explains why she bothered to write it down: it matters when you are picking somewhere for a group. A second post contains the same phrase and we did not count it, because there it sits in a header block beside the hours and the phone number — group bookings, takeaway, separate lavatories, no parking — and gives no sign the writer went looking. Whether there is an accessible cubicle, or how many stalls there are, nobody says.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · 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 saying they paid themselves2 of 11 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way9 of 11 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 13 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 3 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Eleven posts, not thirty. Of the thirty that came back for this address, seventeen are about a different restaurant — a tonkatsu shop on the floor above. They arrived because the street address is identical; but their check-ins all name the other shop, their addresses end in "2F" where this one ends in "1F", and the two have different map listings. In those seventeen, Godeungae appears only as a landmark: look for it at street level, then take the stairs beside it. Of the remaining thirteen we dropped two more as roundup posts — one tabling twenty lunch places, one listing thirty-one restaurants visited over two months. That leaves eleven posts by eleven people.
- Eating alone here is said to have a clock on it — though none of the eleven came alone. Two writers record the rule: one was told solo diners are seated from one in the afternoon and, rattled, brought a colleague along; the other simply passes it on as a tip. A third, from late 2024, puts it more bluntly — not during the busy hour. Three posts, three phrasings, one rule. Whether it applies in the evening, nobody says; the one writer who reports seeing plenty of people eating alone was there at dinner.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. Two state that they paid — one puts it in the title, one in the hashtags — and the other nine say nothing. Of those nine, one is an office lunch where somebody else may well have settled the bill, and one belongs to an estate agency working its way through the neighbourhood, sixty-eight restaurants in. A third writer mentions in passing that she has stopped taking review invitations. None of the usual marks of commissioned writing — batches posted the same day, hashtag blocks identical down to the typo — appear in these eleven.
- The closing time differs between posts, and it reads as a change rather than a disagreement. Posts from October 2024 and January 2025 give half past ten at night (twenty to eleven on Saturdays); four posts from August 2025 through July 2026 all give ten. Six agree on Sundays closed and the three-to-five break. One writer checked the break against the door — the map says three, the sign outside says ten to three — and advises phoning if you are cutting it fine. Another says she walked past three times, closed or finished each time, before she got in.
Sources (11)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 홍대 직장인 점심 맛집 해장하기 좋은 고등애 알탕 2026-07-14 · 솔직한 앵그리마우스의 하루 · via Daum
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- 홍대입구역 회덮밥 맛집 고등애 일식당 후기 2026-05-23 · 오늘도 마크했습니다. · via Daum
- 연남동 밥집 고기살롱 김치찌개, 고등애 고등어조림 점심 후기 2026-03-26 · Daily Log · via Daum
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- 월간일기 9호 2026-03-01 · 일상의 구조 · via Daum
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- [홍대/연남] 회식,모임하기 좋은 고등어 전문요리 맛집 "고등애" 2025-08-13 · 방방곡곡 맛집 및 명소B.log♡
- 홍대 연남 횟집 웨이팅에 지친사람들에게 추천 “고등애” 2025-01-05 · 햄록
- 홍대 맛집 탐방 그 예순여덟번째. "고등애" 2024-12-31 · 이전-> https://blog.naver.com/hongdaehongik183
- 고등어 먹으러 홍대 고등애 2024-10-18 · 때깔좋은 또머겅
Of 248 candidate posts we opened 62 and kept 11 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.