Gilpost · Jung-gu, Euljiro 3-ga
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Ogu Banjeom
오구반점 A third-generation Chinese-Korean kitchen by Euljiro 3-ga station, open since 1953 and known for one thing: hand-folded dumplings fried to order
Data as of · Published ·
Ogu Banjeom is a Chinese-Korean restaurant run in the huaqiao tradition, directly outside exit 2 at Euljiro 3-ga. Several writers date it to 1953 and say it is in its third generation; the name comes from the old address, lot 5-9. The menu is the old repertoire — jjajang and jjamppong through to sweet-and-sour pork and cold platters — but almost everyone comes for one thing: the hand-folded fried dumplings, ordered by twenty of the twenty-three visitors we read. It uses a ground floor and a first floor, and one writer says a second above that. Eleven to nine on weekdays, until eight on Saturday, shut from three to five in the afternoon and all day Sunday. The posts we read run from June 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 중구 수표로 60 (을지로3가) 60 Supyo-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-2267-0516 |
| Typical spend | ₩8,000 – ₩11,000 |
| Floor area | 97 m² |
| Status | In business |
6 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 6 posts: 6 wrote Weekdays 11:00–21:00, 3 wrote Saturday 11:00–20:00.
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–21:00 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Saturday | 11:00–20:00 3 of 6 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Break | 15:00–17:00 4 of 5 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | Sunday 7 of 7 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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 cooling is not the same on every floor. A September 2026 writer, seated downstairs, was startled by how cold it was — an old wall unit set to seventeen degrees. A writer sent upstairs on a summer evening in August 2026 found the air conditioning off altogether, and the lights only switched on once they had climbed the stairs. A third, eating in the upstairs room in June 2025, says it was so hot up there that they left food. Worth asking before you climb, in summer.
- The private room upstairs is floor seating — shoes off, cushions down. Two writers describe it and neither found it comfortable: one calls it an old-fashioned back room rather than anything grand and notes it had been years since they last ate off a cushion; the other simply says the room was unexpectedly uncomfortable, being floor-level. Nobody says how many such rooms there are, or whether the main floors are all chairs.
- Five writers raise cleanliness and all five come down the same way — nobody calls it clean. The sharpest, from August 2026, watched a cloth being rinsed in bleach water in front of them mid-meal, and found what may have been a dishrag draped over a chair upstairs. A September 2026 writer says the hygiene is what you would expect of a place this old, then adds that but for that, they would happily return. Another from the same month notes years of grime on the wall-mounted air conditioner and clouded water in the fish tank; a May 2026 post signs off by warning the squeamish. A June 2026 writer thinks the smell of the place is why the customers are thinning out, and is sorry about it.
- A large tank of carp stands in front of the kitchen. Two writers mention it and take it differently: one lists the odd aquarium of big fish, along with the split-level floors, among the things that make the place itself; the other found them drifting through clouded water and admits to finding it slightly eerie.
- Writers disagree about what is cooked to order — and the disagreement splits by dish. On the fried things they agree it is fresh: dumplings "straight out of the oil", "hot to the fingers". On the noodles and sauces they say the opposite: two doubt the gan-jjajang is wok-fired to order, describing a thick sauce that looks made ahead, and an August 2025 writer read it as a bad sign that their jjamppong arrived in under a minute. A May 2026 writer, served dumplings very fast, assumed they are fried in advance because demand is so steady. We cannot settle it.
- Two writers describe the woman working the first floor in opposite terms. One, in August 2026, went for a plain gan-jjajang and was talked in turn into the Sichuan pork, then a beer, then the dumplings — and says the recommendations were exactly right, the thing they remember best about the place. Another, the same month, says the rudeness of the woman serving went past what they would accept. Downstairs is quieter ground: one writer found the owner kind; another was thrown when they asked for the jellied stock that goes with five-spice pork and were told flatly there was none.
- It is a few steps from the subway. Six writers put it at exit 2 of Euljiro 3-ga, on lines 2 and 3. One, who had always walked there, was surprised to learn how close the station was; another first noticed the sign on the way to a language school as a student. Three describe a red-brick building on the main road rather than something tucked down a lane.
What 22 bloggers said
We read all 22 in full. The most common claims are “Crispy batter” (8) and “Not clean” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Would not return | yes 2 · no 9 |
|---|---|
| Juicy | yes 5 · no 3 |
| Cooked to order | yes 2 · no 4 |
| Friendly staff | yes 2 · no 2 |
| Expensive | yes 2 · no 2 |
Things you can check on site
| Second floor | 10 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| Reachable by transit | 6 of 22 posts |
| Chef credentials | 4 of 22 posts |
| Air conditioned | 2 of 22 posts — saying it is not |
| Private room | 2 of 22 posts |
| Resident dog or cat | 2 of 22 posts |
| Floor seating | 2 of 22 posts |
| Shoes off at the door | 1 of 22 posts |
| Beer served | 1 of 22 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 gun-mandu (군만두) — 20 of 22 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
1 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 22 posts |
|---|
Exactly one writer parked here. Four posts carry the line about there being no car park and public lots nearby, but three of those are lifted from a block of shop information and none of those three came by car. The one who did, in August 2025, writes that they usually skip eating in this neighbourhood because parking is so hard, and got in only because a space happened to be free — adding that enforcement is strict and the public lot is the easier answer. That is one person's luck on one day, and it is all we can say.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 4 of 22 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 3 of 22 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 22 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 22 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Second floor | 10 of 22 posts |
|---|
Which floor you are put on matters here. One writer describes the older man at the door asking whether you are drinking or only eating, and seating you accordingly: the ground floor for solo diners and plain meals, the floor above for groups and office parties. Two posts found daytime drinkers upstairs; two found it packed with office workers in the evening. One says the place runs up three floors and is far larger inside than the frontage suggests. Another, on a second visit, was put downstairs for the first time — you do not choose your own table.
Not one post says whether you can get in. Across all twenty-seven bodies of text, the words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold, step and lift do not appear once. Someone notes the stairs to the upper floor are to the right of the entrance, and two describe the upstairs room as floor seating. But whether there is a step at the front door, and whether the ground floor is level, nobody looked. This is not a no — it is a gap.
Nobody writes about the toilets. Whether they are inside or out in the building's corridor, whether they are separate for men and women, which floor they are on — the word does not appear once in twenty-seven posts. This despite five writers raising hygiene.
No one mentioned: 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
- Someone else paid1 of 22 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves5 of 22 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way16 of 22 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 26 posts we gathered, 4 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 4 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 5 |
| 2026-08 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- Why twenty-three. Twenty-nine posts came back under this name. Two are about somewhere else entirely and were removed — one about a different Ogu Banjeom, in Suyu-dong north of the river, which closed and became a cutlet shop, and one a review of a neighbouring restaurant that merely notes we are nearby. Four more are not visits: two machine-written pieces that only list the old restaurants of Euljiro, one that copies another outlet's "five best old Chinese places" round-up along with its 2020 prices, and one review of the restaurant across the road, written by someone who came here and found the door shut. One of those four invented its prices — every figure disagrees with the menu board photographed the same month, and it alone puts us at subway exit 3 while every other post says exit 2. Everything counted here comes from the remaining twenty-three.
- We do not know whether you queue here. The word for waiting in line turns up eight times in what we read, and only once about this restaurant — where the writer, who says they would have left had they been told to wait, was taken straight upstairs instead. The other seven all belong to other restaurants in the same lanes: one writer ate here, walked out, saw the lines at two barbecue places and gave up on them; another came here as second choice because somewhere else had a long queue. Two mention a lunchtime full of office workers and one found the ground floor full, but nobody describes waiting.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. Five of the twenty-three say they paid their own way, and one says a companion paid — that writer thought the order, which ran to a ₩95,000 cold platter, had got out of hand, and calls whoever settled it the money. The remaining seventeen say nothing about who paid, and saying nothing is not the same as not being paid.
- Three prices do not agree across the posts. The sweet-and-sour pork is ₩24,000 in a June 2025 post and ₩22,000 on a menu board photographed in September 2026. The prawn version is ₩38,000 on that board but ₩40,000 in the bill a July 2026 writer actually paid. The dumplings are ₩11,000 in June 2025, July 2026 and on the September board — and ₩10,000 in one May 2026 post. Whether these went up, went down or were misread we cannot tell, so both figures stand.
- Do not count on sitting until the posted closing time. A writer who came on a Saturday in August 2026 went in at seven, the board saying eight, and was told at twenty to eight that they were closing — with no warning when the drinks were ordered. A May 2026 post describes an earlier attempt on a wet evening: last orders had already passed and they were turned away without being seated. Neither writer says what time last orders actually is.
Sources (22)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 을지로 3가 맛집 오구반점, 노포 중국집 이곳에선 꼭 군만두를 주문.... 2026-07-15 · 오스킨의 살아가는 이야기
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Of 367 candidate posts we opened 86 and kept 22 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.