Soup and riceKorean
Donkim Myeongin Gamjatang
돈킴명인감자탕 Myeongin means 'master craftsman' and gamjatang is pork-backbone stew; the posts give no meaning for 'Donkim'.
Compiled from 28 blog posts read in fullSources →
A pork-bone soup and gamjatang restaurant on the ground floor of a building by the roundabout toward Dongduk Women's University, a short walk from Exit 3 of Wolgok Station in Hawolgok-dong, Seongbuk-gu. Most people eat a single bowl of bone soup — 11,000 won plain and 12,000 won spicy as of August–September 2026 — while groups order the stew pot (34,000 won small) or braised bones. Side dishes are refilled from a self-serve bar, and many posts order from a tablet or kiosk at the table. We read 30 posts from June 2025 to October 2026; 28 of them describe an actual meal.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 성북구 장월로1길 106, 1층 (하월곡동)106 Jangwol-ro 1-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-943-1880
- Typical spend₩2,000 – ₩50,000
- From the station14 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 155 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 20 posts: 14 wrote Daily 06:00–23:00, 5 wrote 06:00–23:00.
| Daily | 06:00–23:00 | 14 of 20 posts |
|---|---|---|
| No day given | 06:00–23:00 | 5 of 20 posts |
| Last order | 22:30 | 15 of 15 posts |
| Closed | None | 2 of 2 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
- Food arrives fast. Nine posts say so, citing under a minute, about five minutes and under ten minutes. No post complained of a wait for food.
- Twenty-three posts mention the self-serve bar: kimchi, cubed radish and pickled onion come to the table first, and you fetch more yourself. Two posts note the aprons hang on the wall beside it.
- Twenty posts call the room spacious, and eleven describe a walled-off semi-private room at the back. The figures of 20 in the room and 50 in the hall are copied from the shop's listing.
- Seven posts say the pork had no gamey smell, including one whose partner normally avoids bone soup for that reason.
2 more
- Seven posts ordered from a tablet or kiosk at the table, and one noticed a language switch. One October 2026 post found that some tables had no tablet.
- Fourteen posts describe it as walkable from Wolgok Station, three to seven minutes; one says outright they came by public transit.
What 28 bloggers said
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Roomy
We read all 28 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (20) and “Clean” (14).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
- Free refills 23 of 28 posts
- Reachable by transit 14 of 28 posts
- Private room 11 of 28 posts
- Self-order screen 7 of 28 posts
- High chairs 4 of 28 posts
- Toilet inside 2 of 28 posts
- Separate restrooms 1 of 28 posts
- Air conditioned 2 of 28 posts
- Origin labelling posted 2 of 28 posts
- Wi-Fi 2 of 28 posts
- Review event 1 of 28 posts
- Waiting area 1 of 28 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
9 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 9 of 28 posts |
|---|
Nine posts parked in the building's two basement levels. Three say you give your plate number at the counter when paying; one warns the garage is tighter than expected. The often-repeated line that weekends are crowded is mostly copied from the shop's listing, so we did not count it.
Who came, and with whom
- Came by car 5 of 28 posts
- Date 5 of 28 posts
- Family visit 4 of 28 posts
- Came with children 3 of 28 posts
- Group visit 1 of 28 posts
- Solo 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
14 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 1 (of 28 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 2 of 28 posts |
| Separate restrooms | yes 1 · no 1 (of 28 posts read) |
Only one post mentions the floor from experience: it is at street level and easy to spot. Nobody mentions stairs or a lift.
No post describes the entrance step or getting in with a wheelchair or stroller. 'Wheelchair-accessible entrance' appears only in three copied listings — this means nobody reported it, not that it isn't so.
Accounts of the restroom disagree. One post says it is inside the restaurant but unisex; another says it is separated by sex — one each. Two posts place it inside; a copied listing says it is a shared building restroom split by sex. We can't tell which is current.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 payment1 of 28 posts
- Someone else paid2 of 28 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves3 of 28 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way22 of 28 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 posts we gathered, 2 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 |
| 2025-07 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 3 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 6 |
| 2026-10 | 3 |
What we do not know
- Prices went up. Posts through November 2025 list plain bone soup at 10,000 won and spicy at 11,000; from April 2026 the spicy one is 12,000, and from August 2026 the plain one is 11,000. Pollack soup went from 8,000 to 10,000 won and the small stew pot from 32,000 to 34,000. No post called it expensive; eight said it was good value.
- We don't know about queues. Two posts walked straight in at weekday lunch, one notes waiting chairs out front, and nobody reports lining up in the evening or on weekends — several only say it was busy.
- Nineteen posts give hours of 6:00 to 23:00 (last order 22:30), almost all copied from the listing, with a note to call about late Friday and Saturday nights. One post gives 10:30 to 22:00 'per public info', and a June 2025 roundup lists a 22:00 close Sunday to Thursday. Only one post mentions actually going in the early morning.
- Many posts give the same phone number, 02-943-1880. Reservations and three-to-five-minute takeout come from the shop's own listing; no post actually booked or picked up an order.
- Promotional posts are mixed in. Three share an identical block of 13 hashtags, and six more open with the same set. One discloses sponsorship, two were invited reviewers, three say they paid themselves, and the remaining 24 say nothing. All describe real orders and seating, so we counted them, but expect a tilt toward praise.
Sources (28)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 354 candidate posts we opened 79 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.