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Gumane Pocha Bonjeom

구마네포차 본점 An indoor pojangmacha across the road from Gasan Digital Complex station, open well past midnight, where every order of chilli-glazed bar food arrives behind a free fried egg on a hot plate.

Beer and fried chicken · Geumcheon-gu, Gasan-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Gumane Pocha is an indoor pojangmacha — a drinking house done up like a street tent — on the ground floor across from exit 2 at Gasan Digital Complex station. It opens at three in the afternoon, six at weekends, and runs into the small hours, closing at a different time each day of the week. The food is the red, chilli-glazed kind: pork gristle, boneless chicken feet, pork belly with kimchi, plus hotpots and soups. Order anything and a fried egg on a hot plate arrives first, for nothing — fourteen of the eighteen posts stop to mention it. The walls are covered in customers' graffiti, and the set menus are named after office ranks. Two posts say it has been here twelve years. The posts we read run from July 2025 to January 2026.

The basics

Address서울특별시 금천구 벚꽃로38길 5, 지상1층 (가산동)
5 Beotkkot-ro 38-gil, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul
Phone02-851-9706
Typical spend₩3,500 – ₩25,900
Floor area32 m²
StatusIn business

13 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 12 posts: 9 wrote Friday 15:00–05:00, 7 wrote Saturday 18:00–03:00, 5 wrote Sunday 18:00–01:00.

OpenWeekdays15:00–02:00 2 of 12 posts last seen 2026-01
OpenWeekends18:00–03:00 2 of 12 posts last seen 2026-01
OpenFriday15:00–05:00 9 of 12 posts last seen 2025-09
OpenSaturday18:00–03:00 7 of 12 posts last seen 2025-09
OpenSunday18:00–01:30 3 of 12 posts last seen 2025-09
OpenSunday18:00–01:00 5 of 12 posts last seen 2025-08
Last orderFriday04:30 4 of 5 posts last seen 2025-09
Last orderSaturday02:30 2 of 5 posts last seen 2025-09

The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.

What sets it apart

  1. Order anything and a fried egg arrives first, for nothing. Fourteen posts record it — the most repeated fact about this place — and they agree on the detail: it comes out on its own hot iron plate, still spitting, salted, crisp at the edges, the yolk soft. Two say the number is matched to the number of people at the table; one reports getting two. Several remember the bar by this one thing — one had never seen a bar give a fried egg, another says it makes her want to become a regular — and two repeat the folk belief that egg before drinking softens the blow. Nobody reports being given none.
  2. It is practically at the station. Thirteen posts say so, measuring it every different way and landing in the same place: one minute from exit 2, sixty-three metres, two minutes, one pedestrian crossing, directly opposite as you come out. The most generous estimate, from two posts, is five minutes. The station is served by two lines, and one writer names the wrong one. Four add that being on the ground floor of a main road means first-timers do not get lost.
  3. Nobody says the portions are small. Eleven say the opposite, and eight of them are pointing at the same thing: the ₩3,500 rice ball. Bigger than my fist; bigger than a man's fist; about two bowls of rice; enough for two people to overeat. The rest mean the whelks (a whole tin, one guesses), the chicken stew (enough for one person although two came), the pork belly (a piece of kimchi for every slice). There is one complaint in the other direction: a regular wishes there were more pork gristle, and ordered a plate of chicken feet when it ran out.
  4. The posts disagree about the size, and they are looking at two different things. Four call it small — the room itself: compact, not large, on the small side, snug rather than big. Three call it roomy — the gaps between tables: about ten tables with plenty of space between them, enough room not to be jostled. Both writers who counted the tables arrived at about ten. Two mention a table that seats eight, one a sofa, one a window seat, and two watched a party arrive and fill the big table.
  5. They disagree about the heat, and the split follows what they ordered. The six who call it hot mean the pork gristle, the chicken stew, the kimchi hotpot, the new spicy braised ribs; the five who do not mostly mean the boneless chicken feet and the pork belly. On the chicken feet they actually converge — a shade milder than instant ramyeon, warm rather than punishing — and two report a companion who cannot take chilli eating it happily. Two call the pork belly sweet rather than hot. The hottest thing appears to be the braised ribs added in January 2026: the one writer who ordered them warns your nose will run, and says hers did. Nobody has asked for anything to be made hotter — one post only guesses that the kitchen would oblige.
  6. Write a receipt review and you get a soju, a beer or a soft drink. Seven posts record it and three name the platform. Separately, three say that booking through the same app brings a ten per cent coupon. Four mention that you can book at all, one adding that with a small room a group should. Only one writer describes actually booking — she reserved a table to watch a baseball match.
  7. Six posts talk about the owner and all six are warm. They say what she did: recommended what to order, told them the stew was ready once the potatoes were, worked fast enough that the food kept coming. The most concrete is about a lost toy — a writer dropped a soft toy on the way to the toilet, went home without noticing, rang three days later and found it had been kept for her. Three read the joke notices on the wall as the owner's humour: free if you come with the president, the paperwork required to run a tab, a birthday song on request. Nobody writes about being badly served.
  8. Four writers call themselves regulars, and they say how regular: five years of working nearby and three nights a week at the peak; a paying regular since her first job, more than ten visits; often, as the second bar of the night; a place she drops into. Five more say they will be back. Exactly one post thinks little of it — a month-in-the-life diary that orders the chicken feet and a seafood kimchi pancake and calls it unremarkable, not worth returning to. That entry is set at the autumn holiday, which puts the visit a year earlier than everything else we read.
  9. Nobody calls it expensive. All four who discuss price say the opposite — very fair, nothing like what a chicken stew costs now; is this really the price, everything around ten thousand won and the portions large; the food is all cheap; easy on the wallet. The actual prices run higher than that: the dishes we counted sit between ₩16,900 and ₩25,900, and the only things under ten thousand are the rice ball at ₩3,500, the seafood ramyeon at ₩6,000, and the silkworm soup and steamed egg at ₩9,900. What they mean is cheap for the quantity. One August 2025 post reports being told by the owner that the set menus had been reshuffled because costs had risen — what was in them before, nobody wrote down.

What 18 bloggers said

We read all 18 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (11) and “Friendly staff” (6).

What they liked

Large portions11 of 18 posts
Would return5 of 18 posts
Friendly staff6 of 18 posts
Returning customer4 of 18 posts
No wait4 of 18 posts
Not expensive4 of 18 posts
Food comes quickly3 of 18 posts
Comfortable seating1 of 18 posts
Clean1 of 18 posts

What they struggled with

Unremarkable1 of 18 posts

Where they disagree

Spicyyes 6 · no 5
Roomyyes 3 · no 4

Things you can check on site

Complimentary starter14 of 18 posts
Reachable by transit13 of 18 posts
Review event7 of 18 posts
Takes reservations4 of 18 posts
Toilet outside4 of 18 posts
Discount offered3 of 18 posts
Local currency accepted2 of 18 posts
Ground floor2 of 18 posts
Phone charging1 of 18 posts
Large windows1 of 18 posts
Open kitchen1 of 18 posts
Separate restrooms1 of 18 posts
Air conditioned1 of 18 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is poktan jumeokbap (폭탄주먹밥) — 8 of 18 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

Who came, and with whom

With a friend6 of 18 posts
Date3 of 18 posts
Group visit1 of 18 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Gumane Pocha Bonjeom is

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

Second flooryes 0 · no 2
Toilet insideyes 0 · no 4
Separate restrooms1 of 18 posts

Not one of the eighteen posts uses the words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp or threshold. What we know is that it is on the ground floor — two writers say so themselves — and that it faces a main road one crossing from the station. That is not the same as saying you can get in: whether there is a step at the door, which way the door swings, whether a chair fits between the tables, nobody records. And the toilets belong to the building, with the women's up a flight. If it matters, ring and ask.

No one mentioned: 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 disclosing payment3 of 18 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 18 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way14 of 18 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 19 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

0708091001
Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-072
2025-0810
2025-094
2025-101
2026-011

What we do not know

  • Two of the twenty posts have been taken out, leaving eighteen posts from eighteen blogs. One is about a different restaurant entirely — the whole body is a review of a grill house two streets away, with only that shop's check-in, and this place appears solely in the title of a related-posts link at the foot. The other is a week of baseball diary carrying four check-ins across two cities, whose entire account of this bar is a photograph of a corn snack and the writer asking her friend what the place was called. She evidently went; she simply says nothing about it, and leaving her in only inflates every "N of twenty".
  • Ten of the eighteen posts went up in the eight days between 17 and 24 August 2025, and two of those ten declare that they were sponsored or comped. Ten posts about one bar in a single week does not happen by itself, so it is fair to read a promotion into that fortnight. But we have not treated them as posts written without going — the ten order different things at different prices, and each carries something only that writer could have seen: the sofa seats, the table for eight, the window table, the grain powder that had not come back from the mill, the men's toilet on the ground floor and the women's one above. No two carry the same block of hashtags. So we count them — but it is worth knowing that half of eight months of writing came out of one week.
  • Three posts declare a sponsorship or a comped meal, one declares that she paid, and the other fourteen say nothing. One of the three writes that although this visit was sponsored, she has been a paying regular here since she started work nearby, and puts her visits at more than ten — we count it as sponsored and record the rest too. Another says plainly at the top that the bar provided the food. The third marks it with a single hashtag at the very end.
  • Nobody in these posts queued. Four say there was no wait, and all four also say they arrived soon after opening — straight from work with one other table occupied, five o'clock on a weekday, first through the door at six, early on a weekend afternoon. And all four watched it fill up before they left: full by the time they went home, a party arriving as it got dark. None of our writers went at ten at night, let alone at three in the morning. What it is like late, we do not know.
  • The toilets are not in the bar but in the building. Four writers say so in their own words, one specifying the men's on the ground floor and the women's one flight up. Three of the four pass on the same warning: take paper from the counter before you go. The fourth admits she never went, only saw where it was. How many cubicles, whether there are stairs — there must be, if the women's is upstairs — and how clean it is, nobody writes.
  • Closing time changes with the day of the week — and the posts change with each other. Fourteen give hours and they barely differ on opening: three in the afternoon on weekdays, six in the evening at weekends. Closing is the argument. The commonest account is four in the morning Monday to Wednesday, five on Thursday and Friday, three on Saturday, one on Sunday, with last orders half an hour before. But two posts, from October 2025 and January 2026, say two in the morning on weekdays and three at weekends — and their header blocks are word-for-word identical, so they share a source. One more puts Saturday at one, another at two. One writer gives up and says closing is somewhere between half past one and five, depending on the day; another simply tells you to look it up before you go. If you are arriving late, check that day. Meanwhile no post mentions a closing day at all — and none says it never closes either, so that is a silence, not a fact.
  • Nobody in these posts came alone. Of the ten who say who they were with, six came with friends or colleagues, three with a partner, one with a group from work. One recommends it for drinking alone — but she did not come alone herself. What there is plenty of is the second bar of the night: the place everyone drifts to when the work dinner ends, somewhere they often go for round two, a bar that works as round one, two or three. Two mention a table for a group; two watched one arrive. No post mentions bringing a child.
  • We have not counted the items that only appear in information blocks. Wi-fi, dogs welcome, takeaway and delivery show up in one or two header blocks and nobody says they used any of them — no writer brings an animal, carries food home, or orders in. Three mention that the government consumption vouchers are accepted, two of them outside the header block in their own words. It appears to be so; we have not confirmed it.
  • Eight posts describe the graffiti on the walls. One notes that pens are left out for it; one writer added her own. Several read it as proof that the place has been here a while. Two posts say twelve years, one says more than ten — all three heard it at the bar, and we have not verified it. One adds that the owner runs it with her parents. The other things pinned to the walls, as the posts describe them: a beer-and-soju tower, soju mixed with roasted grain powder, a birthday song, the paperwork required to run a tab, and a joke offering everything free if you arrive with the president.

Sources (18)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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We opened all 193 candidate posts and kept 18 as evidence.