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Ojugine

오죽이네 본관 A 1994 Ikseon-dong house whose one dish is a soupy chicken-and-garlic stew you boil down at the table

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

Ojugine is a chicken-stew house three to five minutes' walk into the Ikseon-dong lanes from exit 6 at Jongno 3-ga. It has been licensed since 1994, it is under a hundred square metres, and it sells essentially one dish. The name says maeuntang — a soup — and six posts locate the difference from the usual braise exactly there: the pot arrives loose and soupy rather than reduced, and you boil it down at the table, add a noodle, and finish with fried rice. The small is sized for two at 30,000 won, the large for four at 48,000. It works as a drinking house as much as a restaurant: seven of the twenty-two people who went record drinking. Ten posts say it opens Monday through Saturday and closes on Sunday. The posts we read run from 9 to 29 September 2026.

The basics

7 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 10 posts: 3 wrote Mon–Sat 11:30–21:50, 3 wrote 11:30–21:50, 2 wrote Weekdays 11:30–22:00.

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 dak maeuntang (닭매운탕) — 18 of 21 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

• 닭매운탕18 ate it
  dak maeuntang₩30,000 · ₩48,000

  Very nearly the only thing this place sells. It is called maeuntang (a soup) rather than the usual braise, and six posts put the difference down to the broth: it arrives loose and soupy, not reduced, and you boil it down at the table. Six write that it is heavy on minced garlic

  30,000 won for the small, 48,000 for the large; one post notes the small is sized for two, the medium for three, the large for four. Seven posts say it is not as hot as the name suggests; one says it is. One writer was told by staff not to reduce it and to turn the flame down, while two others tell you to boil it five minutes longer — how far to cook it down is not agreed on

• 쭈꾸미·쭈삼겹named in 6
  jjukkumi / jjusamgyeop₩37,000

  Stir-fried baby octopus, and the same with pork belly added. Six posts note it on the menu; not one records ordering it — all six pass it over along the lines of "it is there, but the chicken is what you come for"

  37,000 won for the medium, from one post in September 2026. One writer looked around the room and noted that he saw no table eating either this or the lacquer-bark version

• 옻매운탕named in 4
  ot maeuntang₩40,000

  A maeuntang made with lacquer-tree bark. Four posts note it on the menu board; not one records ordering it

  40,000 won for the medium, from a single post in September 2026. With no one recording having eaten it, we know nothing about how it tastes

Sides, and what comes with it

• 볶음밥8 ate it
  bokkeumbap₩3,000

  Rice fried in what is left of the broth, as a finish. Eight of the twenty-two who went ate it and eleven write about it; five of them use the word "compulsory"

  3,000 won, from one post. Two writers tell you to ladle some broth into a side dish before the rice goes in. One was too full to manage it

• 칼국수 사리5 ate it
  kalguksu sari₩2,500

  Knife-cut wheat noodles added to the broth. Nine posts urge you to add something to the pot, and this is the one most of them name

  2,500 won, from one post. One writer warns that it drinks up the broth and turns the pot salty, so ask for more stock, and that it needs over ten minutes to soften. Two others regret not ordering a second

• 수제비 사리4 ate it
  sujebi sari

  Hand-torn dough added to the broth. With the knife-cut noodles, the most written-about of the add-ins

  No post gives a price. One writer ranks it: the knife-cut noodles compulsory, this one optional. Another picks it over the noodles

• 공기밥4 ate it
  gongibap

  A bowl of plain rice; four posts order it separately from the fried rice

  No post gives a price. One writer, finding the broth on the salty side, reckoned rice would bring it into balance

• 우동 사리3 ate it
  udon sari₩2,500

  Thick udon noodles added to the broth

  2,500 won, from one post. One writer compares the two: the knife-cut noodles taste better, but these cook faster

• 감자 사리2 ate it
  gamja sari

  Extra potato. Four posts note that the pot comes with potato already; this is more of it

  No post gives a price. One writer mashes it into the broth along with the udon

• 떡 사리2 ate it
  tteok sari

  Rice cake added to the pot

  No post gives a price. One writer spells out what the base pot holds — chicken, potato, vegetables — and that rice cake or noodles have to be added on

• 라면 사리1 ate it
  ramyeon sari

  Instant noodles added to the pot

  No post gives a price. The one writer who ordered it found the broth loose enough to take it, and says the pot thickens and deepens once a noodle goes in

• 야채 사리1 ate it
  yachae sari

  Extra vegetables. Only one post mentions it

  No post gives a price. The single writer says only that adding it is compulsory

To drink

• 소주7 ate it
  soju

  Soju. Seven of the twenty-two who went record drinking it and ten write about drink at all; five describe the pot itself as something to drink alongside

  No post gives a price. Two writers look around the room — "every table had a bottle", and one who was briefly thrown to find people eating without it. One counts two bottles a head

• 맥주3 ate it
  maekju

  Beer. Two posts have it mixed with soju

  No post gives a price. One writer found the seasoning strong enough that a bottle followed by itself

• 청하1 ate it
  cheongha

  Cheongha, a chilled rice wine. Only one post mentions it

  No post gives a price. The single writer got through five bottles and walked the stream path to Gwanghwamun afterwards

Parking

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

Two people write about parking a car here. One notes simply "parking: no" in his own checklist. The other explains that there is no lot of the shop's own, that the lane is too narrow to drive into, and that public transport is the easier choice — and names the Jongmyo public car park and the street bays under Nagwon arcade instead. A third mention we did not count: it sits in a run of emoji bullets alongside "phone booking available" and "takeaway available", with no account of actually arriving by car, which reads as copied listing information. So whether to drive here is two people's word, and twenty did not raise it. That same post also records paid corkage at 20,000 won a bottle and private hire of the room; both come from that one post and we could not confirm either.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

No post says which floor this shop is on, nor whether there are stairs, nor whether any part of it is below ground — across the twenty-two texts, the words for floor and stairs never point at this shop, only at other places' addresses. The business registration carries no floor number either. A low building in a lane makes the ground floor likely, but that is a guess rather than something we checked, and we do not print guesses.

Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across the twenty-two texts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, doorstep and level change never once appear — checked by machine and then by hand. Nobody looked at whether there is a step at the door, how wide the door is, or how much room there is between tables. This is not "you cannot": it is we do not know. Two things we do know are worth setting down: one writer says the lane is too narrow to drive a car into, and one says the tables inside are packed tight.

One post mentions the toilet. That writer put "toilet: indoors" in his own checklist, meaning it is inside the premises. That is the whole of what we know. Whether it is separated by sex, how many cubicles there are, whether there is an accessible one — none of the twenty-two says.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · 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 themselves6 / 216 of 21 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way15 / 2115 of 21 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 23 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

What we do not know

• Three shops of this name share the Ikseon-dong lanes, and this page is the original. The main house, the annex and a third branch sit one or two minutes apart, and the public register lists all three separately. Naver's map folds them into a single entry, so posts written after eating in the annex check in here. We therefore dropped one review from the evidence: its author writes "we walked past the main house to the annex" and then describes that room, not this one. Four posts say the staff will send you to one of the other two when this one is full, so which building you end up sitting in may not be obvious.
• We counted twenty-two of the twenty-seven posts. Two we removed entirely as not being about this shop: one is a "top ten bars in Jongno 3-ga" piece where the name appears only inside a list of search keywords, with the writing instructions left un-deleted at the bottom, and the other is the annex review described above. Three more we kept but left out of the denominator — two neighbourhood round-ups and an essay on the history of braised chicken with five recommendations tacked on. In all three, our part of the text is an address, a phone number and a menu list, or hearsay ("it is said to be"), with no record of anyone eating anything. On the other hand, not one post declares a sponsorship and we found no trace of one — across the twenty-two, the words for sponsorship, comped meals and paid copy never appear, hashtags included. Six writers state they paid their own way; the other sixteen say nothing either way. The twenty-two posts are twenty-two different people.
• Closing time splits between 21:50 and 22:00 — six posts write ten minutes to ten, three write ten. Four give the last order as 20:50, which makes 21:50 look like the shop's own figure, but we show both. The afternoon break splits too: five write 14:50–16:00 and one writes 15:00–16:00. Two posts have Saturday opening at noon rather than 11:30. Ten posts agree that Sunday is the closing day — though one adds that while the main house and the annex close, the third branch opens on the first, third and fifth Sunday of the month, so a Sunday visit to Ikseon-dong is worth checking against that one.
• Two things are on the menu board that nobody here ate. Four posts note the lacquer-bark stew at 40,000 won for the medium and six note the octopus dishes at 37,000, and neither was ordered in a single post. One writer looked around the room and reported seeing no table eating either; another says only that she is curious about the octopus next time. So we know nothing about how either tastes, and each price comes from one post in September 2026.

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Of 297 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 21 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.

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