Gilpost · Seongbuk-gu, Jeongneung-dong
Cheongsujang
청수장 A second-generation pork-rib house at the foot of Bukhansan, open since 1984, where the ribs are sauced to order and the Hamhung cold noodles are cut in house
Korean · Seongbuk-gu, Jeongneung-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Cheongsujang is a marinated pork-rib house in a lane five minutes' walk from Jeongneung station, on the road up towards the Bukhansan trailheads. It opened in 1984 as Cheongsu Pork Galbi and is now in its second generation; the noodle shop it once ran separately was folded in when the present building went up in a traditional tiled style. The ribs are not left in marinade — the raw pork is tossed in the house's black sauce only once you order — and the Hamhung-style cold noodles are made on the premises. You grill the meat yourself. The posts we read run from August 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성북구 정릉로 237-2 (정릉동,(1층)) 237-2 Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-913-6176 |
| Typical spend | ₩1,000 – ₩23,000 |
| Floor area | 50 m² |
| Status | In business |
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 12 posts: 11 wrote Daily 11:30–21:30.
| Open | Daily | 11:30–21:30 11 of 12 posts last seen 2026-08 |
|---|---|---|
| Last order | 21:00 10 of 10 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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
- The self-serve counter has coriander on it, and Korean angelica leaf. Neither is usual at a grill house, and four writers stop to say so — one puts coriander in the title, another says it is the first place since a well-known chain to put it out. Two find that the herb and the black sauce make something of each other; three wrap the meat in angelica. Lettuce, perilla, garlic, pickled onion, radish salad, cabbage slaw, kimchi and green chillies all come from the same counter at no charge, and five writers mention the relief of not having to ask. One, though, counts the walk to the counter against the place — nothing here is brought to you.
- No one grills for you. The sauce clings to the ribs and catches fast; five writers say you have to keep turning. One was told by a server to roll the pieces instead of flipping them, and another had tongs brought over mid-argument about it. Two hold it against the price — twenty-two thousand won a portion, one says, and she had assumed someone would help. Others enjoy the work. One leaves instructions: medium-low to start, down to low once the fat drips and the flame comes up.
- The price has moved twice in two years. A May 2025 visit is written up with the note that it had already gone to ₩21,000 a portion three months later; posts from August 2025 and January 2026 have ₩21,000, and six posts from March to September 2026 have ₩22,000. The pork neck moved further and has overtaken the ribs — ₩21,000 in August 2025, ₩23,000 in 2026. The noodles, the crackling, the stew and the rice have not moved at all. Five writers call it dear, and all five land in the same place: worth it anyway. The one who calls it cheap is talking about the quantity, not the bill.
- People come here with their parents. Seven posts say who they were with: two birthdays for a father, three outings with parents, one with in-laws, one with a daughter. In one of them the writer's mother-in-law was first brought by *her* father-in-law — three generations through the same door. Two notice the sweets at the till divided into adults' and children's; two the small bowls and spoons set out for children; one an infant seat. Every seat is a chair, by one account. Two say it suits parents better than a date — though four of these visits were dates.
- It depends entirely on when you go. Two writers queued, and both were there on a Friday or Saturday evening — one booked for seven and still waited five minutes behind a table, another booked for half six and watched a line form at seven. Six found the room easy, and every one of them gives a time: weekday lunch, the dead hour after lunch, eight on a weekday evening, before five. One had the place to herself. Three more repeat that weekends are long, but all three went midweek. There is online booking and a queue terminal at the door, and two note that same-day reservations go through.
- Twelve writers expected a worn old room and did not find one. The phrasing keeps the shape of a corrected expectation. Six describe the tiled roof outside; one notes that the kitchen sits at the back, so the noise of it does not carry. Eleven call the room large — seats in an outer part and an inner part, with space between the tables. One found it loud and one found it quiet, which is not a disagreement: the first was there on a Friday evening and the second at midday in the week.
What 19 bloggers said
We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (12) and “Roomy” (11).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 2 · no 6 |
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Things you can check on site
| Free refills | 15 of 19 posts |
|---|---|
| Self-order screen | 6 of 19 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 3 of 19 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 2 of 19 posts |
| Coffee served | 2 of 19 posts |
| Takes reservations | 2 of 19 posts |
| Staff cook it at your table | 2 of 19 posts — saying it is not |
| Hand-wash sink in the dining area | 1 of 19 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 19 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 19 posts |
| High chairs | 1 of 19 posts |
| Valet parking | 1 of 19 posts |
| Parking capacity | 1 of 19 posts |
| Beer served | 1 of 19 posts |
| Certified Korean pork | 1 of 19 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 19 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is cheongsu galbi (청수갈비 (양념 돼지갈비)) — 18 of 19 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
Parking
6 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 6 of 19 posts |
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Most of what is written about parking was copied. The line — parking available, free valet, valet at weekends and holidays — appears in more than ten posts, nearly always inside a header block beside the address and the phone number. Six writers actually parked: one counts about five spaces in front, one warns that the entrance is one-way and the spaces are parallel along a wall, one was simply told where to put the car on asking inside, one went midweek because weekends fill up. Only one was handed to a valet — he came out as they pulled up, and would bring the car round if you rang five minutes before leaving. The claim that an hour at a nearby paid lot is covered when the spaces are full appears only in a post by someone who did not eat there, so we have not counted it.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 7 of 19 posts |
|---|---|
| Came by car | 5 of 19 posts |
| Date | 4 of 19 posts |
| With a friend | 1 of 19 posts |
Getting there
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 floor | yes 0 · no 1 |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 19 posts |
Not one of the nineteen posts says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. The words for threshold, ramp, step and stair do not appear at all. One remark tells us the room is on the ground floor, and one that every seat is a chair. That is the whole of it — nobody looked at the door, and nobody says whether the toilets can be reached. This is not a no; it is a gap, and worth a phone call if it matters. On the toilets themselves: one writer places them midway through the room and separated by sex, three call them large and clean, and two note a basin outside them for washing your hands without going in.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · 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 themselves9 of 19 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way10 of 19 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 26 posts we gathered, 7 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-08 | 4 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 4 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
What we do not know
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. We read the bodies and the hashtag blocks at the end; the words for a comped meal or a paid post appear nowhere, while nine writers state outright that they paid. Nobody records being given anything either — the seaweed soup for birthdays turns up once, as advice to ring ahead rather than as something received. Set against that: we removed seven posts from the count. Four are list pieces covering many restaurants at once — sixteen old shops across two districts, ten in this neighbourhood, a roundup of a nearby development, a summer water festival — and three are single-subject pieces that are still only write-ups, giving the kelp-ageing time and the weight of the pig while never saying what was ordered. Of the ones we kept, one states in its own footer that the person who ate and the person who wrote are different people; we counted it, since it carries prices and tasting notes, but an English word sits oddly mid-sentence in the Korean. Another is built as a Q&A and carries an affiliate shopping link.
- Two phone numbers are in circulation. Our register has the local one; six posts give a national forwarding number instead. Forwarding numbers usually reach the same place, but we have not rung to check. Two posts from August 2025 use the local number. No post mentions a mid-afternoon closing. The twelve that give hours agree to the minute — every day, half eleven to half nine, last orders at nine — and ten add that the door closes at half eight. As for a weekly rest day, the only writer who addresses it says plainly that she is reading it off the listing, so nobody has confirmed it at the shop.
Sources (19)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [결혼준비3] 웨딩반지💍(더현대 티파니앤코 하모니링, 더현대 푸드코트, 정릉맛집 청수장) 2026-08-26 · 빛이나는일상 · via Daum
- 서울 40년 노포 돼지갈비 찐맛집 블루리본 정릉 청수장 내돈내산 솔직후기 가족모임 추천 2026-08-23 · 오늘의 나디 · via Daum
- 정릉 청수장 돼지갈비 맛집, 냉면까지 만족한 한 끼 2026-08-07 · 다사람 MAP
- 정릉 청수장 주말 방문 후기, 달지 않고 부드러운 돼지갈비 2026-08-03 · Gloomy to Sunny · via Daum
- *청수장* 정릉, 길음 양념 돼지 갈비와 냉면이 맛있는 곳, 내돈내산 2026-07-19 · limpid111님의블로그
- [정릉역] 돼지갈비랑 비빔냉면이 맛있는 청수장 / 정릉 가족모임 맛집 / 정릉 맛집 추천 2026-07-07 · The happy rabbit eats again today · via Daum
- 성북구 맛집 청수장 역사 깊은 백년가게 양념갈비 노포 2026-06-16 · 루씨아 나날의 기록
- 정릉맛집 청수장 노포맛집 내돈내산 청수장 양념돼지갈비 맛있어요 2026-05-28 · 소비여왕 주부일상♡
- [성북맛집] 성북동 40년 노포 청수장 돼지갈비 후기 | 검은 양념의 비.... 2026-05-09 · 니 멋대루해
- [정릉] 고수있는 고깃집 | 양념갈비 맛집 | 블루리본 고기 | ‘청수장.... 2026-05-09 · 안뇽✨
- 정릉 맛집 청수장 주차 가능 어버이날 식사할만한 곳 돼지갈비 맛집 2026-05-06 · 「매일은 아니어도, 오늘의 조각」
- 서울 백년가게 정릉 청수장 돼지갈비 함흥냉면 성북구 맛집 추천 후.... 2026-04-23 · 뽁여우의 육아 리빙 기록
- 447 / 성북구(정릉동) / [청수장] : 고수와 곁들이는 돼지갈비 2026-03-22 · 치킨의 블럭
- 내돈내산 성북구 동물복지 돼지갈비 맛집 청수장 아버지랑 다녀온 .... 2026-03-11 · 상팔자95 일상기록
- 가족식사 발렛가능한 정릉갈비맛집 청수장 + 상생페이백 온누리상.... 2026-01-11 · BLULOG
- 성북구 정릉동 40년 전통의 갈비 맛집 청수장 솔직 후기 2025-08-29 · 알찬 성장학교 새싹반
- 정릉동 청수장 맛집 성북구 주민들이 인정한 오랜 전통에 가진 한옥.... 2025-08-27 · 견적문의(010-9151-9317)
- [성북구 정릉동] 청수장 (돼지갈비) 2025-08-21 · 골프존아카데미 공덕점⛳️
- [쩝쩝 박사 맛집 일기] 정릉동 맛집 청수장 후기(부모님이 좋아하시.... 2025-08-03 · 겨미ㅢ공백
Of 275 candidate posts we opened 61 and kept 19 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.