Gilpost · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong
Grill house
Mapo Gopchang Town Yeonnam-jeom
마포곱창타운 연남점 A twenty-year-old beef-offal grill house up a lane off Hongik University Station, where the staff cook at your table, raw liver comes free with any order, and the spicy pork is fried on a griddle out in the street.
Data as of · Published ·
A beef-offal grill house five minutes up a lane from exit 2 at Hongik University Station. Five writers say it has been here twenty years and two call it the fixture of the neighbourhood. It runs two lines at once: the beef intestine is part-cooked in the kitchen and finished by a member of staff at your table, while the spicy pork is stir-fried on a big griddle out beside the door and carried in. Six writers say the smell off that griddle is what took them inside. It opens at noon and closes at half past midnight with no afternoon break — early for this kind of place, and four writers make a point of it. A plate of raw liver and omasum comes free with any order (eighteen posts), and the garlic chives are topped up as long as you keep eating them (eleven). A food YouTuber has been, and the place has twice been on national television. A large share of the room is foreign — ten writers say so, and the notices on the wall are in Korean and Chinese side by side. The posts we read run from March 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 마포구 동교로27길 20 (동교동,1층) 20 Donggyo-ro 27-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 02-336-4496 as written in the posts 02-338-9212 as registered on the licence |
| Typical spend | ₩1,000 – ₩29,000 |
| Floor area | 57 m² |
| Status | In business |
5 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 23 posts: 22 wrote Daily 12:00–00:30.
| Open | Daily | 12:00–00:30 22 of 23 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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| Closed | None 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-05 |
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
- The staff grill it and cut it, start to finish — eighteen writers say so and none says otherwise. The beef comes part-cooked from the kitchen (fourteen posts), so little time passes at the table, and there is an order to it: the heart comes to you first. Five were told it toughens if left on. Once the fat runs, a mound of garlic chives goes on top, and one writer noticed the trick — the chives sit underneath as a bed so nothing catches. You do not have to watch the timing, one writes; it arrives cooked and cut, which suits anyone eating this for the first time. One account cuts the other way: a writer in June 2026 watched an experienced member of staff dress down a new one at their table, at length, and says it put them off their food. Nine others found the staff kind, three of them enough to be given a free steamed egg.
- A plate of raw liver and omasum comes free with any order — eighteen writers record it. One likes that a grill house serving raw liver is confident about its supply; another notes it is vanishing from menus for that reason and was reassured to find it here. Six call it fresh, and two say it is refilled. Six others could not eat it and left it to the table — too funky even drowned in sesame oil, says one — and one tried grilling a few pieces and found that made it worse. A paid portion is listed at ₩15,000, and not one writer ordered one. Also free: a bowl of bean-paste soup each (fourteen posts, refilled by two accounts), pickled radish, pickled onion, a salt-and-oil dish, and a house sauce thick with spring onion that eight writers credit with cutting the fat.
- There is a clear hinge, and it is five in the afternoon. Fifteen writers waited and seven did not, and their times line up. Waited: 17:40 on a Saturday, fourth in the queue, twenty-five minutes; 18:00 on a Sunday, first in the queue; 20:00 on a Tuesday, ten minutes; 19:00 on a weekday, six parties ahead, fifteen minutes; 19:00 on a Saturday with a booking, still fifteen minutes; forty minutes over the Chuseok holiday. Did not wait: 18:00 on a weekday (two of them), 22:30 on a Saturday, late on a Sunday evening, 17:00. Four writers name the threshold themselves — after five the queue lengthens; a Monday at five already full, with a line outside by six; a Saturday at five, a queue forming soon after; 18:10 leaving only the three tables by the door, and nothing at all after seven. Arrive before five, or go very late. They hand out numbered slips and call you; one writer booked ahead and still waited a quarter of an hour. A regular simply turns up for the noon opening — no queue, and no risk of the good intestine being sold out.
- Tables are held to two hours — eight writers record it. When the clock starts, they do not agree: four say after three in the afternoon, one says after five, three simply saw the notice. One writer puts it differently again — that the limit applies when there is a queue — so whether it is always on, the posts cannot settle. One person was caught by it: a writer's sister, drinking here with a friend, asked for the fried rice near the end of the two hours and left without it. If you plan to finish with the rice, order it early — nineteen writers ate it, making it the second most common thing in these posts after the offal itself. Nobody resents the rule; one simply notes that with a queue like that, it makes sense.
- A large share of the room is foreign — ten writers say so. A third of the tables, by one count; half and half, by another; mostly not Korean, by a third. One singles out the number of Chinese customers and copies down the notices on the wall, printed in Korean and Chinese together: turn the fried rice over, and do not clear away the paper cup that catches the fat. Someone here has thought about guests unfamiliar with all this, they write. One saw a sign offering a drink for posting on Xiaohongshu; one was handed a queue ticket by a member of staff who was not Korean. One writer wonders whether it explains the sweetness: the pickled radish was sweet, and so was the fried rice, which surprised them until they looked around the room. Nobody minds the crowd; one says outright that this is where they would bring a visiting friend to eat offal for the first time.
- Almost everything went up over two years. Two writers copied out the whole menu board, so the lists can be set side by side. Between March 2025 and August 2026: the gop-packed intestine ₩28,000→₩29,000, the plain ₩27,000→₩28,000, large intestine ₩27,000→₩28,000, the mixed platter ₩26,000→₩27,000, makchang ₩18,000→₩19,000, fried rice ₩3,000→₩4,000. Only the tripe held at ₩28,000 — and the three pork dishes did not move from ₩15,000. A writer in July 2026 says so plainly: their meal was in April, and the prices have risen since. Six call it dear — steep even for this kind of place; is offal really this much a head now; one round here and your back is broken. One calls it good value for Hongdae. Two writers give a total for two people: ₩80,000 with two bottles of soju, and ₩39,000 for two portions of makchang and a bowl of rice. One gives ₩140,000 for four.
- It is loud — six writers say so and none says otherwise. Full and roaring until late; too hectic to linger in, one says, and better for eating fast with a drink; a busy near-full room, another concludes, pitched at office nights out rather than a quiet date. The room itself is large — six describe tables running right to the back, and one counts about twenty. On whether they are too close together, the accounts split: three say tightly packed, one warning to take care squeezing past the table behind; one says the opposite, with room enough that nobody's fat spits on anybody else. The tables are round, which one writer says stops working above four people. Two more things worth knowing: your clothes will smell — one was glad of the seats that open up to store a coat inside — and it can be hot in summer. One found the ceiling and standing air conditioners enough to keep it comfortable; another, visiting in a heatwave, says the units were going full blast and the room was still warm with the crowd and the grills.
What 27 bloggers said
We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (9) and “Roomy” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 15 · no 7 |
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| Would not return | yes 2 · no 14 |
| Returning customer | yes 6 · no 9 |
| Large portions | yes 5 · no 4 |
Things you can check on site
| Complimentary starter | 18 of 27 posts |
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| Staff cook it at your table | 18 of 27 posts |
| Meat is pre-grilled before it reaches the table | 14 of 27 posts |
| Free refills | 11 of 27 posts |
| Foreign customers in the room | 10 of 27 posts |
| Time limit on the table | 8 of 27 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 5 of 27 posts |
| A minimum number of portions on the first order | 4 of 27 posts |
| Review event | 3 of 27 posts |
| Air conditioned | 2 of 27 posts |
| Bag storage | 1 of 27 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 27 posts |
| Toilet inside | 1 of 27 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 27 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 bokkeum-bap (fried rice) (볶음밥) — 19 of 27 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
To drink
Parking
3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 3 of 27 posts |
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There is no car park. Three writers say so and none says otherwise: the place is down a lane with almost nowhere to leave a car, and you will need a municipal car park — better to take the train, says one. One names the nearest, a street-side municipal lot two blocks away, and says it is the closest they found. Nobody actually parked, though — all three are statements that there is nowhere, not accounts of leaving a car or what it cost. A single March 2025 post lists a tight spot in front of the shop, in an information block, and that writer did not use it either. If you mean to drive, find out first.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 6 of 27 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 3 of 27 posts |
| Date | 3 of 27 posts |
| With a friend | 2 of 27 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 27 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 1 of 27 posts |
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Nobody writes which floor it is on. The registered address is the ground floor, and six writers describe a large griddle set up on the pavement beside the door, which reads as street level — but no one says so outright. No mention of an upstairs or a basement, none of stairs or a lift. One places it directly opposite a red-fronted convenience store; another simply notes the state of the sign, which they take as a good omen.
Not one of the twenty-eight says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. The words step, threshold and ramp appear nowhere. Two related things are established: it is down a lane (five posts), and the seating is round tables with drum stools set close together — three writers say so, one warning to take care moving past the table behind. A fourth found the gaps generous, so it presumably depends where you sit. One family came with children, who finished the steamed egg, and says nothing about a high chair. Whether there is a step at the door, we do not know.
One post, one line. A writer in May 2025 lists the toilet as being inside, in an information block. Five posts carry the words "separate men's and women's", but all five sit inside the same copied run of listing amenities — groups welcome, takeaway, booking, separate toilets — so we have not counted them as anything anybody saw. How many, how clean, whether there is ever a queue: nobody writes. What several do establish is that this is a late-night drinking room working under a two-hour limit.
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 · 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
- Someone else paid1 of 27 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves11 of 27 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 27 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 29 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 |
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| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 6 |
| 2026-09 | 10 |
What we do not know
- One word on the menu changes what arrives. Read this first. There are two grilled-intestine dishes with nearly the same name, a thousand won apart. A writer in September 2026 asked for the plain one and got hollow intestine — no gop inside at all, which is the whole point of the dish. They ordered the packed version on the spot, found the difference not remotely close, and leave the instruction plainly: ask for the first line on the menu, the one that says packed with gop. Others say the same: a thousand won and a different dish entirely; the plain one is not worth ordering. All ten writers who ate the packed version tell you to order it. It does sell out — one queued and was turned away, one waited forty minutes over a holiday only to be told it was gone, one got the last of it. A single writer reports that the mixed platter uses the hollow kind, and no one else confirms it.
- 314 metres from exit 2 at Hongik University Station, about five minutes on foot — five writers say it is easy enough. You do have to turn off the main road into a lane, though, and first-timers can miss it. One writer leaves directions: out of exit 2, left along the road past the electronics store, right at the junction to the Olive Young, then down the lane to its left until a red-fronted GS25 branded for the football club — the restaurant is directly opposite it. Two note the Gyeongui Line park nearby for a walk afterwards. Four of the five distances are the 314 metres printed in the listing; only one writer paced it themselves, and made it four minutes.
- Not everyone was won over. Three of the twenty-eight came away short of the billing. One writer in August 2026 gave it two stars: good, but next time they will go elsewhere. A June 2026 post is headed "nothing special", calls it a little disappointing against the size of its queue, and finds the portions smaller than expected — this is also the writer who watched the staff argue. And a writer returning after eight years says the beef has been tenderised, and lost its chew and some of its richness with it — not as good as they remember, though still respectable. That observation appears once; the other twenty-seven make no such claim. On portions the accounts divide: four call them small — one notes a four-portion plate of the plain intestine looked thin, another that serious eaters would want more — while five call them generous, and those five are mostly talking about the pork stir-fry and the fried rice.
Sources (27)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 392 candidate posts we opened 55 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.