Korean
Jongno Bansanghoe
종로반상회 A bansanghoe is the old monthly neighbourhood residents' meeting; the house plays on it, naming its set menus after the block chief (tongjang) and village head (ijang).
Compiled from 16 blog posts read in fullSources →
A Korean set-meal house two minutes from exit 4 of Jonggak Station, down a flight of stairs in a basement behind Bosingak. Today it is built around bossam: weekday lunch brings spicy pork or braised-kimchi trays at 10,000 won (bossam at 12,000) with self-serve rice, and evenings turn into a drinking table around a small bossam spread for two at 34,000 won or a large one for three at 48,000, with chive pancake, black-sesame fried pork and soy-dressed whelk. Posts up to January 2026 describe a different menu centred on perilla pork stir-fry and a bulgogi-octopus hotpot; posts from June 2026 on describe the bossam menu. We read 30 posts from 21 April 2025 to 6 October 2026: 16 record actually eating here, 12 only introduce the place, and 2 are about a different restaurant on the 4th floor of the same building.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 종로구 우정국로2길 8, 지하 1층 (관철동)8 Ujeongguk-ro 2-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
- Phone070-9050-2965
- Typical spend₩10,000 – ₩108,000
- From the station9 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 152 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 11 posts: 4 wrote Daily 11:00–22:00, 4 wrote Weekdays 11:00–22:00, 3 wrote 11:00–22:00.
| Daily | 11:00–22:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekdays | 11:00–22:00 | |
| No day given | 11:00–22:00 | 3 of 11 posts |
| Break | 15:00–17:00 | 10 of 10 posts |
| Last order | 21:00 | 3 of 3 posts |
| Closed | 토요일·일요일 | 6 of 7 posts |
Rows without a count: 4 of 11 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
- Weekday lunch around noon draws a line. Of five posts that mention waiting, two saw one: a diner who walked straight in at about 11:25 watched a queue form by 11:40–11:50, and another found people lined up at the entrance at lunchtime. The three who did not wait came around 2 p.m. or early in the evening. No one recorded how many minutes they waited.
- At weekday lunch you are handed an empty bowl and serve yourself from the rice cookers; three posts say the rice was black rice. Four posts record going back for more side dishes or greens, and one notes a sign asking diners to take only what they will eat.
- Eight posts call the portions large. A couple who ordered the small bossam plus a pot of braised kimchi left food behind and suggest one main and a pancake for two.
- Four posts say the pork had no off smell, none say otherwise, and three say the seasoning was not salty.
1 more
- Four posts describe groups (colleagues, a team, five friends), two friends (the five-friend dinner counted in both), two a partner, and one a mother and daughter.
What 16 bloggers said
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Large portions
We read all 16 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (8) and “Roomy” (5).
What they liked
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 2 · no 3 |
|---|
Things you can check on site
- In a basement 11 of 16 posts
- Reachable by transit 9 of 16 posts
- Free refills 4 of 16 posts
- High ceiling 1 of 16 posts
- Review event 2 of 16 posts
- Seats to sit and eat 1 of 16 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 1 of 16 posts
- Takes reservations 1 of 16 posts
- Meat arrives fully grilled from the kitchen — no grill at the table 1 of 16 posts
- Toilet inside 1 of 16 posts
- Air conditioned 1 of 16 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Who came, and with whom
- Group visit 4 of 16 posts
- Date 2 of 16 posts
- With a friend 2 of 16 posts
- Family visit 1 of 16 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
9 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| In a basement | 11 of 16 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 1 of 16 posts |
Eleven of the visit posts say the room is underground, reached by stairs. One calls the stairs fairly steep and mentions a large 'mind your head / mind the step' sign at the door. Another says it does not feel closed in, because you can see street level up the stairwell.
Nobody says whether there is a step at the door or whether a wheelchair or pushchair can get in — not that it's impossible, just unrecorded. The only way in anyone describes is the stairs down; no post mentions a lift to this floor.
Only one post, from November 2025, mentions the toilet: inside the restaurant and clean. Nobody says whether it is separated by gender.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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
- Posts saying they paid themselves2 of 16 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way14 of 16 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 posts we gathered, 12 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
| 2026-10 | 3 |
What we do not know
- Posts disagree one to one on the ceiling: one found it high, one low. On noise, two found it quiet while one said it is not the place for a hushed conversation.
- Every post gives the same opening hours, 11:00–22:00 with a 15:00–17:00 break, and two give last orders at 21:00. Weekends are the open question: six visit posts say closed Saturday and Sunday, four say open daily — all four copied from a listing. Weekend closure appears from April 2025 onward, but the latest post (October 2026) repeats 'daily', so check before a weekend visit.
- Prices have moved: black-sesame fried pork went from 15,000 won (June 2025) to 23,000 (Sept 2026); dinner braised kimchi was 16,000 per person in Nov 2025 and 23,000 for a two-person pot in Sept 2026. The 10,000-won weekday lunch trays held steady from Nov 2025 to Oct 2026. The only per-head dinner figure is from April 2025: about 20,000 won each for five sharing a set.
- Most posts list the phone number 0507-1439-8936; one July 2026 post gives 070-7755-8926. One January 2026 group says it booked through Naver.
- Eight introductory posts from August–September 2026 share one template (the 108 m from exit 4 line, the hours block, 'check before visiting', the same team-dinner and date hashtags), and one still contains a leftover writing instruction. We did not count any of them as visits.
Sources (16)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 종각 점심 맛집 종로반상회, 김치찜 + 밥 무제한 직장인 가성비 점심 2026-10-06 · 맛잇지 | 맛을 잇는 지도
- 광화문 종각역 한식 맛집 종로반상회 2026-10-06 · 후와후와 라리—̳͟͞͞♥
- 일샹샹 - 이천이십육년 구월 2026-10-01 · 준준
- 종각역 데이트 코스가 매번 똑같아서 — 지하 계단 내려가 '반상회' .... 2026-09-18 · 동동이의 HR 끄적임
- 실패 없는 종각역 회식 장소 찾기! 종로반상회 방문기 2026-09-04 · 일상을 특별하게! · via Daum
- 종각 점심 종로반상회 만원으로 즐기는 든든한 제육볶음 한 상 2026-08-31 · 영이
- 배롱배롱 메롱메롱 2026-08-24 · ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ · via Daum
- 종각역 맛집 푸짐한 보쌈 한상이 매력적인 종로반상회 2026-07-19 · 주디의 하루
- 종각역 맛집 종로반상회 : 부드러운 보쌈과 함께하는 시간 2026-06-10 · sunny__view
- 종로반상회, 집밥을 먹는 듯한 느낌 2026-01-10 · 페르소나(persona)를 사랑한 나르시스(narcissus)
- 종각역 맛집 종로반상회 삼겹살 두루치기 동동주 2025-11-07 · 설렘을 만드는 일상
- 종각역 점심 맛집 직장인 메뉴추천 종각역 두루치기 종로구 김치찜 .... 2025-11-05 · 주디의 하루
- 종각역 맛집 종로반상회 회식하기 좋은 제육볶음 맛집 2025-07-18 · 뚱스
- 종각역 두루치기 흑임자고기튀김 맛집 [종로반상회] 2025-06-24 · 서울맛투어
- 종각역 맛집 종로반상회 깻잎두루치기 흑임자 고기튀김 맛있고 푸.... 2025-05-10 · EunB BLOG
- 힐링되는 종로반상회 종각역 한식 2025-04-21 · 하면 된다 .
Of 356 candidate posts we opened 84 and kept 16 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.