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Ikseon Galmaegi
익선갈매기 Ikseon is the Ikseon-dong neighbourhood the alley belongs to; galmaegi here is short for galmaegisal, the pork skirt (diaphragm) cut — not the seagull the word also means.
Compiled from 28 blog posts read in fullSources →
Ikseon Galmaegi is a charcoal-grill pork house at the mouth of the galmaegisal alley behind exit 6 of Jongno 3-ga station. The signature is a whole pork skirt wound round a rib bone (170 g, 18,000 won); three mixed-cut sets all cost 53,000 won. You grill at your table, indoors on the ground floor, at street tables in the alley, or up a staircase on the roof. We read 30 posts from 9 August to 5 October 2026; 29 describe a visit, and one was about a different place the writer went on to afterwards.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 종로구 수표로28길 45, 1층 (익선동)45 Supyo-ro 28-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
- Phone0507-1336-7923
- Typical spend₩2,000 – ₩53,000
- From the station11 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 70 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 22 posts: 17 wrote Daily 14:00–22:00, 5 wrote 14:00–22:00.
| Daily | 14:00–22:00 | 17 of 22 posts |
|---|---|---|
| No day given | 14:00–22:00 | 5 of 22 posts |
| Last order | 21:30 | 19 of 19 posts |
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
- There is a rooftop. Six posts ate up there or described it. Table counts differ: four or five groups, about five tables, about eight. It is reached by a staircase inside or from the back door, and two posts warn that the steps are high and steep.
- Twelve posts say a Naver receipt review gets you one free side: jjagyechi noodles, kimchi stew or soybean stew, each normally 8,000 won. One adds it is once per table and the review must show a main dish; another notes cold noodles are excluded.
- Waiting depends on the hour. Three posts met a queue: a weekday Tuesday evening with a wait on arrival, a full house and a line by about 6 pm, and a general 'there's usually a wait'. The two that walked straight in came at 3–4 pm on a Saturday and around 4 pm. Nobody wrote down how many minutes they waited. Three others arrived at the 2 pm opening and found it quiet.
- Eight posts from August to late September found the indoor room properly cold, with a 'power cooling' sign at the door and fans running alongside the air conditioning; one party of seven chose seats right in front of the unit.
2 more
- Fourteen posts mention juiciness and nine say the meat is thick-cut. Several warn that the charcoal runs very hot, so you have to turn things often; one says the pork belly was done in under five minutes. Three posts specifically note no gamey smell.
- Eleven posts walked from exit 3 or 6 of Jongno 3-ga station, putting it at one to five minutes on foot. One says the alleys are confusing, another nearly went in the wrong side, and two point out there are doors front and back.
What 28 bloggers said
galmaegi saeng tong-galbi
Juicy
We read all 28 in full. The most common claims are “Juicy” (14) and “Thick cut” (9).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 3 · no 2 |
|---|
Things you can check on site
- Review event 12 of 28 posts
- Reachable by transit 11 of 28 posts
- Air conditioned 8 of 28 posts
- Outdoor terrace seating 8 of 28 posts
- Rooftop seating 6 of 28 posts
- Beer served 5 of 28 posts
- Second floor 3 of 28 posts
- In a basement saying it is not 4 of 28 posts
- Takes reservations 3 of 28 posts
- Toilet inside 2 of 28 posts
- Separate restrooms 2 of 28 posts
- Bag storage 2 of 28 posts
- Complimentary starter 2 of 28 posts
- A minimum number of portions on the first order 1 of 28 posts
- Free refills 1 of 28 posts
- Meat is pre-grilled before it reaches the table 1 of 28 posts
- Large windows 1 of 28 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 3 of 28 posts |
|---|
Three posts say in their own words that there is no parking; the 'no parking' line in most others is copied from the listing. The two posts that drove used the Jongmyo public car park and a paid lot in Insa-dong.
Who came, and with whom
- Date 6 of 28 posts
- Family visit 2 of 28 posts
- Came by car 2 of 28 posts
- With a friend 2 of 28 posts
- Group visit 1 of 28 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
Eleven posts walked from exit 3 or 6 of Jongno 3-ga station, putting it at one to five minutes on foot. One says the alleys are confusing, another nearly went in the wrong side, and two point out there are doors front and back.
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 3 · no 1 (of 28 posts read) |
|---|---|
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 4 (of 28 posts read) |
| Toilet inside | 2 of 28 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 2 of 28 posts |
Accounts of the upper floor disagree. One post from 16 September 2026 says the second floor is the kitchen and all seating is downstairs; three October posts describe rooftop seating on the second floor. An 20 August post already mentions the rooftop, so we do not read this as a change. Four posts sat on the ground floor; none mention a basement.
No post says whether there is a step at the entrance or whether a wheelchair or pushchair gets in; that means nobody wrote about it, not that it is a problem. No one mentions a lift, and the rooftop reads as stairs-only.
Two posts saw for themselves that the toilets are inside and split by gender, one adding they were clean. Several more repeat the line from the shop's listing, which we did not count.
No one mentioned: 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 disclosing payment3 of 28 posts
- Someone else paid1 of 28 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way24 of 28 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 | 12 |
| 2026-09 | 7 |
| 2026-10 | 9 |
What we do not know
- Prices are steady from August to October: 18,000 won per single cut (beef 20,000), 53,000 per set, 8,000 for stews, noodles and jjagyechi. One post put the galmaegi set at about 58,000. Two posts give a whole bill: 64,000 won for two with a set, cold noodles, stew, rice and a drink, and 45,000 for two portions of skirt with a soju and a beer. One writer found it pricey, another called the sets reasonable.
- Twenty-two posts give the same opening hours, daily 14:00–22:00 with last orders at 21:30, almost all copied from the listing. Three writers arrived right at the 2 pm opening, which bears that out. No post mentions a closing day.
- Many posts list the same phone number, 0507-1336-7923. Three posts went with a reservation, one of them booking by phone and being seated on the roof.
- The free cold side broth changed: posts up to 26 September 2026 describe dongchimi radish water-kimchi, posts from 2 October a muksabal of acorn jelly in cold broth. Whether it is seasonal we can't tell.
- Of those who said who they came with, six came as a couple, two with friends, two with family (a mother, a teenage son), and one as a group of seven.
- Most of these posts follow a promotional template: nine carry the identical 17 hashtags in the same order, twenty if you count reordered or extended versions, and four share an almost word-for-word directions paragraph. Three disclose sponsorship, one reads as partly comped, the rest say nothing; none says the writer paid their own way.
- The registered address is 11 Donhwamun-ro 11ga-gil (floors 1–2), while every post gives 45 Supyo-ro 28-gil (Ikseon-dong 160-3). Posts mention doors on both sides, so these are likely two frontages of one building, but we could not confirm it.
Sources (28)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 352 candidate posts we opened 99 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.