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Pungnam Golbaengi

풍남골뱅이 A 1975 whelk house in the Euljiro golbaengi alley, where one dish buys you a rolled omelette and a pot of broth for nothing

Korean · Jung-gu, Euljiro 3-ga

Data as of 2026-09-30 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Pungnam Golbaengi is an old drinking house in the whelk alley just behind exit 11 at Euljiro 3-ga. The door says 1975; it carries the government's hundred-year-shop plaque and has been on Paik Jong-won's television programme. In practice it sells one thing: whelks dressed with chilli under a heap of shredded spring onion, with dried fish tossed through, on a wide plate. There is no rice. It opens at three in the afternoon and closes on Sundays. One writer traces it to a corner shop selling tinned whelks and soju to the printers who worked these lanes. The posts we read run from 4 February to 27 September 2026 — though one of them is about a visit in November 2017.

The basics

4 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 7 posts: 5 wrote Weekdays 15:00–23:00, 5 wrote Weekends 15:00–23:30, 2 wrote 15:00–23:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is pungnam golbaengi (풍남골뱅이 (골뱅이무침)) — 25 of 26 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

• 풍남골뱅이 (골뱅이무침)25 ate it
  pungnam golbaengi₩29,000 · ₩31,000

  A wide dish of whelks under a heap of shredded spring onion — the Euljiro style, as one writer explains, as opposed to the soupy kind or the thick chilli-paste kind you get at a street tent. **Dried fish is tossed in among the whelks**, which is this shop's signature; two writers call it monkfish, one pollack, one dried pollack. A bottle of vinegar stands on every table, **there for anyone who wants it sharper**, say three.

  **Nine writers remark on the size** — nothing like the tinned kind, big enough to need cutting, and one says that after these the whelks at her local are a disappointment. Against that, **a post written in 2026 about a visit in November 2017 says the shop simply opens a tin** — nine years ago. The heat divides: four who do not eat chilli found it mild, three found the onion sharp enough to sting, one of them watching visiting friends give up. The price moved from ₩29,000 in February 2026 to ₩31,000 in July. **A second helping of whelks alone is ₩31,000 less four**, ₩27,000, by two accounts.

• 번데기탕2 ate it
  beondegi-tang₩8,000

  Silkworm pupae in a broth, in a large earthenware pot. **Full of shredded spring onion**, one writer notes.

  Two writers had it: sharp and savoury, says one; the other found the broth strong and the pot generous, and ordered a second.

• 햄1 ate it
  ham₩9,000

  Spam, cut into cubes.

  One writer ordered it, and says only why: there was nothing else on the board but the whelks and the dried snacks. He does not say how it tasted.

• 마른안주 (마른오징어·포·군포)named in 2
  mareun anju₩13,000 · ₩15,000

  Dried squid at ₩15,000, dried fish fillet at ₩13,000, the grilled version at the same — one writer copied the board.

  **Nobody records eating any of it.** It survives only in the copied menu.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 계란말이23 ate it
  gyeran-mari₩10,000

  **The board says ₩10,000, and yet it arrives free with the whelks, and they will keep bringing it.** Twenty-five posts call it a freebie and twelve say it is unlimited — one writer had assumed you must buy it to get the refills, and found you need only order the whelks. Thick, cut across, with ketchup; almost nothing in it but egg and a little spring onion.

  **Several writers say it is the reason to come** — one puts it in the title, ahead of the whelks; another suspects a specialist in the kitchen; a third notes that most bars part-make these in advance while here they seem to start from the pan, which is why it arrives hot. **Three writers took three or four refills**, and two report the owner asking first, as their plate emptied. Eight describe it as the thing that clears the mouth between spoonfuls of chilli.

• 어묵탕 (오뎅탕)20 ate it
  eomuk-tang

  **Also free, also refilled.** It comes with the egg roll when you order the whelks. No post gives it a price.

  Sharp with green chilli and clean-tasting, says one; heavy on the seasoning and the better for it, says another; not a flavour you meet elsewhere — almost as if the whelks had been boiled in it — says a third. **They bring a fresh pot rather than topping it up**, according to two, one of whom notes it took a while.

• 국수사리12 ate it
  guksu sari₩4,000

  Noodles to fold into what is left of the whelks. **Not the thin somyeon you expect** — five writers reach for words like jjolmyeon or milmyeon, something with more chew. **They arrive already dressed**, so there is no worry about running short of sauce.

  **Five writers call it compulsory.** Sesame oil comes up twice. **It takes time** — order it early, says one; ten minutes, says another; next time, says a third, he will ask for it with the first order. Two skipped it, too full, and regretted it afterwards. **One writer found the pairing unremarkable.**

• 땅콩·과자 (기본 안주)9 ate it
  ttangkong · gwaja

  The dry snack that lands before you have ordered. Free. Two call them squid-and-peanut; one likens them to little squid puffs.

  Crunchy enough that one writer kept eating them on a full stomach; a little hard, says another, but right for the start of an evening.

To drink

• 생맥주·소주·맥주19 ate it
  saengmaekju · soju · maekju₩5,500

  Draught, bottled beer and soju all ₩5,500; soft drinks ₩2,000; cheongha ₩6,500 (one post says ₩6,000); a bottle of premium soju ₩30,000. **The draught is Cass or Suntory**, with one mention of Kloud. **The soju comes frozen to a slush** — ordered, it is knocked loose with a hammer out the back, one writer reports.

  **Five writers mention the slush soju**, one of whom does not otherwise drink it and found the cold took the alcohol out of the taste. Someone who tried both draughts preferred the Kloud. One finds the drinks a shade dearer than elsewhere. **The shop is one of the few running a Cass promotion**, according to one post, with a draw settled on the spot when you order the bottles.

Parking

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

There is no parking. Four posts say so and none disagrees: come on foot; find a public car park nearby; no booking and no parking. Not one names which car park they used. This is mostly somewhere people walk to for the second round — eight came on from somewhere else, and four place it a few steps from exit 11 at Euljiro 3-ga. One post puts it at exit 11 of Euljiro 1-ga, which is the wrong station.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

No post says which floor it is on. No stairs, no basement, no upstairs. What they give you to recognise it by is the line about 1975 at the door, the hundred-year-shop plaque, and the fact that Yeongnak Golbaengi is right next to it — the lane is packed with whelk houses, so check the sign. One writer found the alley empty except for a single heaving room, looked up at the name, and that was this one.

Not one post mentions a step, a ramp or a wheelchair. Whether there is a lip at the door, how wide it is — none of the twenty-seven say. What they describe is the seating, and even there they part: deep inside and plenty of tables, roomy, comfortably spaced, say some; ordinary in size with the tables close and every word from the next one audible, say others. Nobody describes the gap between them. One notes a large party seated across several tables pushed together.

Nobody writes about the toilet. Inside or out, shared or separate — not a line in twenty-seven posts. For a place that pours until eleven at night, and where several writers account for two or three bottles of soju, it is a fair question, and it goes unasked. That is not "there is none"; it is nobody looked.

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 themselves7 / 267 of 26 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way19 / 2619 of 26 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 27 posts we gathered, 1 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

What we do not know

• The posts contradict each other flatly on whether the whelks come out of a tin — and the contradiction is nine years wide. The 2026 accounts insist they are nothing like tinned, big enough to cut, not the small ones you get elsewhere. But one post, written in August 2026 about a visit in November 2017, says the kitchen does not boil anything: it opens a tin and dresses it, and he cannot see why the place is so full. Same shop, nine years apart. Whether the shop changed or the eyes differ we have not been able to establish. We could only spot it because that writer put the date in his title; the other twenty-six posts are all from 2026.
• The registered name is just 풍남, two syllables. The sign, the map entry and all twenty-seven posts call it 풍남골뱅이, and one adds "the original". We use the name people say. The phone number is 02-2265-2336, agreed by three posts and by the registry. Six posts give 1975 as the founding year and none disagrees; one calls the place fifty years old and another says it is in its third generation, and we have confirmed neither.
• There is no rice — this is a second-round place. Ten posts say so in as many words, and one, comparing it with the shop next door, notes that there are no rice balls here, which makes it awkward with a child. The only way to fill up is the noodles, which five writers call compulsory. One party came on an empty stomach and regretted it — the onion was sharp enough to leave them sore, which they concede was their own fault. And it is loud: seven posts reach for words like raucous, so if you want a quiet table this is not it.
• Two posts say the shop hands out cigarettes. One reports being told they are kept for customers who have run out or left theirs behind — Japanese and Chinese packs among them; the other only photographed the pile by the till because it surprised her. Neither says anyone smokes indoors — whether there is anywhere to, or whether people step outside, nobody writes down. Nor do we know whether it is still true.

Sources (26)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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22. 을지로 풍남골뱅이 청계천 원조 골뱅이 맛집 두번째 방문기 2026-07-26 · 델님의 조용한 세상
23. 50년 세월 , 분위기로 먹는 을지로 3가 노포 맛집 풍남골뱅이 2026-07-24 · 잘먹었습니다
24. [을지로3가] 풍남골뱅이 - 골뱅이에 한잔하러 와서 반하는 계란말이 2026-07-20 · Comer es un viaje. Viajar es un placer.
25. 을지로 풍남골뱅이 후기 | 골뱅이무침에 계란말이까지 나오는 노포 .... 2026-07-06 · 슈슈 블로그
26. [서울 중구] 풍남 골뱅이 / 골뱅이무침, 계란말이 / 한식 2026-02-04 · 소주 안주 일기장

Of 335 candidate posts we opened 81 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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