Gilpost · Dongjak-gu, Sadang-dong
Deossanghwa Coffee Sadang-jeom
더쌍화커피 사당점 A herbal tea house in the market lane behind exit 14 at Isu station, fitted out like an old pharmacy, where a 7,000-won cup of ssanghwa arrives as a whole tray of porridge, ginseng and fruit; it is the Sadang branch of a chain whose original house is in Jongno.
Other · Dongjak-gu, Sadang-dong
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Deossanghwa Coffee's Sadang branch is a herbal tea house in the lane of food stalls that runs from exit 14 at Chongshin University (Isu) station. The registered name is the shorter one; the sign and the customers use the branch name. Behind a pink shopfront the room is fitted out like an old herbal pharmacy — a wall of small drawers, a folding screen — and the smell of the herbs reaches you before anything else. Ssanghwa and the other traditional teas are the point, but coffee, lattes, fresh juice and medicinal wine are all on the same board. Order one cup and a whole tray arrives with it: porridge, fruit, candied walnut and a packet of herbal pills. Most posts give the hours as ten in the morning until ten at night. It is a franchise branch; the original house is in Jongno. The seven posts we read run from February 2025 to March 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 동작구 동작대로29가길 26, 1층 (사당동) 26 Dongjak-daero 29ga-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 0507-1415-3365 |
| Typical spend | ₩5,000 – ₩20,000 |
| Floor area | 92 m² |
| Status | In business |
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 6 posts: 4 wrote Daily 10:00–22:00.
| Open | Daily | 10:00–22:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2026-03 |
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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
- You pay for a cup and a tray comes. It is the scene that recurs most across these posts: beside the tea, a small bowl of porridge, a root or two of fresh ginseng, candied walnut, dates and grapes and cherry tomatoes, rice crackers, and a sachet of herbal pills — reportedly handed out by sex, one blend for men and another for women. It does not depend on ordering tea. The writer who had an iced americano and the one who had only a green-grape juice both describe the same spread. Hence the remarks: one had never been given porridge in a cafe before; another says it felt like being waited on. One writer was handed a herbal digestive she had not paid for. Read the price here as the price of a tray, not of a cup.
- The prices have not moved in nearly two years. A February 2025 post and a January 2026 post copy out the board line for line and the figures match exactly: ₩6,000 for ssanghwa, ₩7,000 for the deluxe, ₩5,000 for coffee, ₩6,000 for a latte. A March 2026 post still gives ₩7,000. Nobody calls it expensive. Everyone who raises the subject says the opposite, usually by setting ₩7,000 against what a slice of cake costs elsewhere. There is a dearer end to the board — premium red-ginseng teas in the ten thousands, a wild-ginseng latte at ₩20,000 — but no one in these posts has drunk from it.
- It is a herbal tea house that also pours coffee and alcohol. The name and the sign put ssanghwa first, but the board carries coffee, lattes — including one made with black sesame — smoothies and fresh juice, and beside them a medicinal rice wine, a wild-ginseng liquor, and by one account beer. Which means it works for people who cannot drink the herbal teas: one writer, pregnant and avoiding both caffeine and herbal infusions, had the green-grape juice and got the same tray. Another drank the medicinal wine by the glass. Still, as one writer puts it, what suits the room is the tea.
- It is a franchise branch, and you can tell from the writing. The original house is in Jongno; this is the Sadang shop. In one of the posts we read, half the body is the parent company's own copy — twenty years of research, eight patents, sixteen trademarks, twelve US FDA registrations, quarterly self-testing — and the hashtags at the foot carry the name of a blogging campaign. We have not verified any of those claims; we count only that someone wrote them down. Another writer, unprompted, describes patent notices and a herbal gift counter in the room, so something is certainly on the wall. Judge the place by the price and the tray rather than by the list — those, several people saw for themselves.
What 7 bloggers said
We read all 7 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (4) and “Would return” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Coffee served | 3 of 7 posts |
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| Seats to sit and eat | 3 of 7 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 3 of 7 posts |
| Complimentary starter | 2 of 7 posts |
| Toilet outside | 2 of 7 posts |
| Beer served | 1 of 7 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 teukssanghwa (특쌍화) — 4 of 7 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
1 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 7 posts |
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Not one of these writers parked a car. Two mention parking: one in a header block beside the hours and the address, which we treat as copied and have not counted, and one who simply looked and wrote that parking seemed difficult. Nowhere is a nearby car park named, or a rate given. The journeys people do describe are on foot from the station — five minutes from exit 14, by one account. Come by train rather than by car.
Who came, and with whom
| Date | 1 of 7 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 1 of 7 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 7 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 7 posts |
| With a friend | 1 of 7 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
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 2 |
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We do not know whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across all seven posts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, step, threshold, ramp and lift do not appear once. That is not a yes and not a no — it means nobody looked. Read it together with the lavatory being outside the building. If it matters, ring before you go.
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 themselves1 of 7 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way6 of 7 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
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| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
What we do not know
- The posts disagree about whether it is quiet. One December 2025 writer found a corner table, watched other customers working on laptops and says you can sit as long as you like. Another, the same month, came at lunchtime wanting to rest off an illness and found a dozen-odd young colleagues piling in at once — she says plainly that the plan failed. Several writers arrive expecting only older regulars and find a mix. Nobody writes about which hours are calm. If you want the quiet version, lunchtime looks like the wrong time.
- The lavatory is not in the shop but outside the building. Two writers say so, in almost the same words. That is the whole of it — nobody records whether it is separated by sex, whether there is an accessible one, whether you need a key, or how far you have to walk. Worth knowing if you plan a long sit, or are coming with a child or an older relative.
- No writer describes the floor or any stairs in their own words. The licence record and the check-in widget both print "1F" in the address line, but that is a line of an address, not something any of these people looked at. Whether there is a step or a flight between the street and the door, nobody says. Three do say it is easy to find — right on the lane behind the petrol station, with a sign you cannot miss.
- Nobody records waiting. No queue, no waiting list, no booking, and nobody turned away for want of a table. That does not mean there is never a wait — it means none of these seven people mentioned one. What they do mention is that the drink itself can be slow: one writer, in a group who all ordered ssanghwa at once, says it took a considerable time to arrive. It looks to be brewed cup by cup, so allow for it if you come mob-handed.
- One post gives different hours from the rest. Of the six that state them, five say ten in the morning to ten at night; a single post from the end of December 2025 says ten to eight. Posts from January and March 2026 are back to ten at night, so it reads as one writer's slip rather than a change — but we have not confirmed it. No post mentions a mid-afternoon break, a last order, or a closing day, and none says it opens every day of the year either. If you are going late, ring first. The only number any writer copied down is a masked 0507 line.
- Nobody declares a sponsorship, but we read one post with a guard up. Of the seven, one states outright that she paid her own way and six say nothing either way. The March 2026 post, though, is half parent-company copy and carries a blogging-campaign tag at the foot. There is a record of eating — the deluxe ssanghwa on the owner's recommendation, with a note on how it tasted — so we kept it in the denominator, but we counted none of the patents, certifications or "142 metres from the exit" it copied across. No one reports being given anything free either, beyond a single herbal digestive handed over with the tray.
Sources (7)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [이수역 카페] 20년 내공의 보약 한 잔, 특허받은 '더쌍화커피 사당점.... 2026-03-31 · SNS세상이야기
- [더쌍화COFFEE] 이수역 골목 건강하게 커피타임~ 2026-01-14 · 준콩부부의 소비일기 · via Daum
- 이수역카페 몸보신하기 좋은 더쌍화커피 사당점 2025-12-29 · 응당 남겨야 할 일상 · via Daum
- 이수역 카페 더쌍화커피 쌍화차 세트 내돈내산 2025-12-15 · 리뷰여행 · via Daum
- 더쌍화커피 사당점 2025-12-08 · 워킹맘 담나의 사는 이야기
- [카페] 더 쌍화 커피 사당점 2025-08-29 · 감자앤구마 · via Daum
- 총신대 이수역 남성시장 먹자골목 전통차 맛집 더쌍화 커피 특쌍화.... 2025-02-01 · 갬성 여행 맛도리
We opened all 262 candidate posts and kept 7 as evidence.