Korean
CONGDU MYEONGDONG
콩두 명동 Kongdu Myeongdong Kong is the Korean word for bean; Myeongdong names the district, marking this as the Myeongdong house of the Congdu restaurants (a sibling, Congdu 50, sits in Yeouido).
Compiled from 24 blog posts read in fullSources →
Congdu Myeongdong is a Korean course restaurant on the 6th floor of the Hotel28 building in Myeongdong, beside the hotel reception, run under chef Park Hyo-nam of Culinary Class Wars 2. Lunch starts at 49,000 won (some mains cost extra), dinner is 99,000 or 129,000 won, and there is a Sunday brunch. Mains like the beef rib arrive on a small brazier with white rice and three side dishes, and you brush on a 15-year aged soy sauce. Most posts were birthday dinners with parents, engagement meetings, anniversaries, or office outings. We read 29 posts from 4 May to 5 October 2026: 25 from people who ate there, 2 that only described it, and 2 about other places (Congdu 50 in Yeouido and a nearby cafe), which we set aside.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 중구 명동7길 13, 5층 (명동1가)13 Myeongdong 7-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Phone0507-1385-7016
- Typical spend₩40,000 – ₩129,000
- From the station6 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 511 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 12 posts: 5 wrote 07:00–21:30, 5 wrote Mon–Sat 07:00–21:30, 5 wrote Sunday 07:00–14:30.
| No day given | 07:00–21:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mon–Sat | 07:00–21:30 | |
| Sunday | 07:00–14:30 | |
| Break | 10:00–11:30 | 11 of 11 posts |
| Last order | Mon–Sat 20:00 | 2 of 5 posts |
| Last order | Sunday 13:00 | 2 of 5 posts |
| Closed | 일요일 저녁 | 2 of 3 posts |
Rows without a count: 5 of 12 posts.
1 other values
| Break | 14:30–18:00 10 of 11 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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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
- Ten posts went with family: parents' birthdays, Parents' Day, engagement meetings. Two were large office groups, three were couples on anniversaries, one was friends. Several posts say that flagging a birthday or anniversary when booking brought a glass of wine or omija drink and a lettered dessert plate, and one used a 50% August-birthday coupon.
- Seven posts sat in a private room, but several stress these are partitioned rather than closed rooms: one heard the hall over an open ceiling, another described partitions with some openness. Two found it quiet; one engagement party said soundproofing was poor because of a loud group next door. One room had a TV.
- Eleven posts booked ahead via CatchTable or Naver. An August dinner post said booking was easy, and a February visitor booking a month out found plenty of open slots. One Sunday-brunch post booked one to two months ahead.
- Nine posts called the price reasonable and four called it expensive. Of the nine, seven ate the 49,000-won lunch, one the Sunday brunch, and one a dinner at 50% off for a birthday; three of the four who found it expensive had the 129,000-won dinner. One engagement party of six paid 834,000 won including drinks.
1 more
- Six posts walked from the subway and say Euljiro 1-ga station is closer than Myeongdong; one gives three minutes from exit 5, another used exit 6.
What 24 bloggers said
udaegalbi seuteikeu
Friendly staff
We read all 24 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (5) and “Large portions” (3).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Expensive | yes 4 · no 9 |
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Things you can check on site
- Takes reservations 11 of 24 posts
- Private room 7 of 24 posts
- Reachable by transit 6 of 24 posts
- In a basement saying it is not 5 of 24 posts
- Lift to the floor 5 of 24 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 2 of 24 posts
- Wine served 2 of 24 posts
- Large windows 2 of 24 posts
- Open kitchen 2 of 24 posts
- Waiting area 1 of 24 posts
- TV 1 of 24 posts
- Free refills 1 of 24 posts
- Discount offered 1 of 24 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 3 of 24 posts |
|---|
All three posts that drove had to park elsewhere, at a nearby Fastfive lot or at Lotte Department Store with a three-hour validation. One copied info block says parking is available, but other copied blocks and all three drivers say the building has none.
Who came, and with whom
- Family visit 10 of 24 posts
- Date 3 of 24 posts
- Came by car 3 of 24 posts
- Group visit 2 of 24 posts
- With a friend 1 of 24 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
Six posts walked from the subway and say Euljiro 1-ga station is closer than Myeongdong; one gives three minutes from exit 5, another used exit 6.
Getting inside
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 5 (of 24 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Lift to the floor | 5 of 24 posts |
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 24 posts read) |
Five posts took the elevator to the 6th floor. Finding the street entrance is a recurring complaint: one wandered back and forth, one came in by a back door, one gave directions to a dark door left of the Cream Chic cafe. A February visitor waited because a single elevator also serves hotel guests; a May post thought there were several.
None of the 25 visit posts mentions a step, ramp, wheelchair, or stroller. Wheelchair access appears only in one copied info block, which we did not count. That means nobody wrote about it, not that it is absent.
Only one post says where the toilet is: the hotel restroom outside the restaurant, to the right. Three others describe its tiles, lighting, or cleanliness but not its location.
No one mentioned: Second 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 themselves8 of 24 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way16 of 24 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 26 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 4 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 9 |
| 2026-10 | 2 |
What we do not know
- No post describes queueing, likely because nearly everyone booked. One early arrival waited on a sofa in the waiting area; another was let in about a minute before the break ended.
- Twelve visit posts list opening hours, all copied from listings. Eleven say 07:00–21:30 and one 21:00, with breaks mostly 10:00–11:30 and 14:30–18:00. Seven say Sunday closes at 14:30 with no dinner; one says closed Mondays. Last order is given as 20:00 in three posts and 20:30 in two.
- Lunch stayed at 49,000 won from a February visit to October, and dinner at 99,000 and 129,000 won from June to September. One May post lists mains at +10,000 (black cod, black tofu) and +20,000 (sirloin, bouillabaisse); another May post puts the seafood stew at +10,000, so that surcharge is uncertain.
- Three posts give the phone number 0507-1385-7016; two others give different numbers (02-3789-2010, 02-722-7002). Most people booked through CatchTable or Naver.
- Two bloggers wrote up the same visit twice (a mother's birthday; a July 31 anniversary). We counted per post, so the ten family posts are nine visits and the three couple posts are two.
- The registered address says 5th floor, but every post says Hotel28, 6th floor. One post claims the steak gets its final grilling at the table; others say it arrives fully cooked on the brazier, so we did not count that claim.
Sources (24)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 모던 한식 맛집 콩듀 명동, 흑백요리사2 박효남 셰프의 고급 런치코스 후기 2026-10-04 · n잡러의 이슈&헬스 로그 · via Daum
- 흑백요리사 박효남 쉐프 명동 콩두 상견례 내돈내산 솔직후기 2026-09-30 · 재잘양의 이모저모
- [명동] 콩두명동｜흑백요리사2 박효남 셰프 한정식, 엄마 생신상 내.... 2026-09-26 · 나엥로그
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- 콩두 명동 디너 B코스 상견례 룸 내돈내산 솔직후기 서울 상견례 식.... 2026-09-11 · 몽니의 하루
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- 콩두 명동 런치 코스 전메뉴 상세 후기 | 명동 가족모임 식당 추천 / .... 2026-08-25 · 윤조이와 함께 세계속으로
- [서울 명동] 내 인생 최고 비싼 식당 <콩두 명동> - 흑백요리사2 박효.... 2026-08-23 · mini-log
- 콩두: 명동 퓨전 한식 코스 요리 식당 추천 2026-08-22 · oniyam 리뷰 log
- 콩두 명동 솔직 후기 | 생일 이벤트 정보 O | 명동 파인다이닝 추천 | .... 2026-08-14 · LYNE
- 콩두 명동 흑백요리사2 박효남 명장 한식 코스 내돈내산 후기 2026-08-13 · Top100 입맛의 세상맛집 방문기
- [2026] 5월 - 임신 후기는 힘들어😖 2026-07-02 · 미닝의 일상 도전기 · via Daum
- [명동 맛집] 콩두 명동 - 흑백 요리사 박효남 셰프의 한식 다이닝 | .... 2026-06-05 · Hang’s Taste
- [명동 맛집] 흑백요리사 박효남 셰프님의 <콩두 명동> 런치 내돈내산.... 2026-06-03 · 젤리곰의 일상 기록
- 박효남 셰프 식당 콩두 명동 런치 코스 가격 맛 후기 2026-06-02 · 국내 해외 여행가 울트래블
- 콩두 명동 런치 후기 / 흑백요리사2 백수저 박효남 셰프 / 한식 파인.... 2026-06-01 · 잘 지내는 이야기
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Of 326 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 24 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.