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Yukmi
육미 Yukmi is a Sino-Korean name that can be read as 'six flavours' or 'the taste of meat'; no post explains it, and the house mostly serves raw fish, seafood and skewers.
Compiled from 5 blog posts read in fullSources →
Yukmi is an old drinking-and-eating house in the Jongno 9-gil alley behind Jonggak Station, in Insa-dong. At lunch it serves rice dishes like mulhoe and grilled fish; in the evening, drinking food — thin-sliced flatfish, skewers, stews. One post paid ₩11,000 for lunch mulhoe with noodles and ₩10,000 for grilled mackerel in Aug 2026; two posts put a medium plate of flatfish sekkoshi at ₩35,000. We read 30 posts from Jan 2025 to Sep 2026. Twenty were about other places with 'Yukmi' in the name (a Yeouido grill, Yukmi Gotgan, Yukmian, the separate Yukmi Jjukkumi upstairs) and were set aside; of the 10 about this house, 7 describe an actual visit.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 종로구 종로9길 18, 1층 (인사동)18 Jong-ro 9-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-738-0122
- Typical spend₩1,800 – ₩47,000
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 337 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 2 posts: 2 wrote Mon–Sat 11:00–01:00, 2 wrote Sunday 11:00–24:00.
| Mon–Sat | 11:00–01:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 11:00–24:00 |
Rows without a count: 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
- Two posts said portions were large: one found so much fish in the lunch mulhoe that they barely finished it; another said the steamed skate was generous even if not tasty.
- Two posts called it cheap and none called it expensive. One noted grilled mackerel with soup and rice for ₩10,000 — low for Jongno; the other said the value was good but the food wasn't, and wouldn't go back.
- Two posts treat it as a regular haunt — one says when the group gets together, it has to be Yukmi; another calls it the place you can always drop into for a second round. One post said it would not return.
- One post saw other diners helping themselves from a side-dish station, did the same, and was loudly told it wasn't self-service — there was no sign either way.
What 5 bloggers said
mulhoe
Large portions
We read all 5 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (2) and “Not expensive” (2).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Separate restrooms 1 of 5 posts
- Reachable by transit 1 of 5 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Who came, and with whom
- With a friend 3 of 5 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
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 5 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 5 posts |
No visitor wrote about which floor it's on; only the address says ground floor. A separate shop, Yukmi Jjukkumi, is upstairs in the same building — we did not count it.
Nobody wrote about a step at the entrance or wheelchair and stroller access. That means we don't know, not that it's a problem.
Only one post mentions the toilets: outside the restaurant, separate for men and women. One report is all we have.
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. 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 5 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way3 of 5 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 8 posts we gathered, 3 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Service splits one to one: one post was told to take a roomier table and felt at home; the other was scolded over the side dishes.
- Prices have gone up. The Aug 2025 menu had budae-jjigae at ₩18,000, salted mackerel at ₩9,000 and extra mulhoe broth at ₩6,000; a menu in a post from Aug 2026 shows ₩20,000, ₩14,000 and ₩7,000. That visit was undated ('a while ago'), so we can't say exactly when prices rose. The medium flatfish sekkoshi stayed at ₩35,000.
- Three posts give the same hours — Mon–Sat 11:00 to 01:00, Sun 11:00 to midnight — all copied into info boxes. None mentions a closing day or a mid-day break.
- No post describes waiting. One post's summary box says 'no wait', but we didn't count a box entry.
- Three posts went with friends, two of them as a second stop after dinner elsewhere. None went with family or alone.
- Two posts list the phone number 02-738-0122. Whether you can book is unclear — one summary box says no reservations, but nobody wrote about trying.
Sources (5)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 7월 5주차 결산 2026-09-22 · ˗ˋˏ Luck t0 yoU ˎˊ˗ · via Daum
- 종로 종각역 노포 맛집 육미 물회국수와 고등어구이 2026-08-16 · 이밥풀
- [종각역 맛집] 가성비는 좋으나 맛은 별로인 육미(3.8점) 2026-08-16 · 잠실맛집 · via Daum
- [인사동] 인사동 종가집 - 황소 양깃머리, 황소 알곱창구이 / 육미 - 소라데침 2025-08-07 · PARADISE LOST · via Daum
- [일상] 조 아 합 니 다 참으려 해봤지마아ㅏㅏㅏㄴ#일상 #또성수쇼핑 2025-05-28 · Swng · via Daum
Of 397 candidate posts we opened 87 and kept 5 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.