Gilpost · Seocho-gu, Seocho-dong

Saembat Makguksu

샘밭막국수 Chuncheon-style buckwheat noodles, third generation of the family, in a basement by the Seocho courthouse

Korean · Seocho-gu, Seocho-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-29 · Compiled by Gilpost

Sambat Makguksu's Seocho branch is a Chuncheon-style buckwheat-noodle house a few minutes' walk from exit 4 at Seoul National University of Education station, on the basement level of the G5 Central Plaza. Several writers say the family is in its third generation at the Chuncheon original and that there are a handful of branches. This one used to be an old shop in a nearby lane before it moved into the current building. A bowl of makguksu is the centre of things, with sliced pork, bossam and griddled pancakes around it, and the Sambat set — a little of everything — is what most people order. It opens every day with no closing day and no afternoon break, which three writers say lets them come in after the lunch rush. Four note how many older customers there are, with the courthouse and the Acrovista towers nearby. The posts we read run from November 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

7 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 13 posts: 13 wrote Daily 11:30–21:00.

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.

What people order

The most ordered dish is makguksu (막국수) — 18 of 24 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

• 막국수18 ate it
  makguksu₩12,000 · ₩13,000

  The one bowl this place is for. **There is no separate broth or mixed version** — the noodles arrive dressed with sauce and seaweed, with a kettle of chilled dongchimi brine on the side, so you eat it mixed and then pour the brine in partway to turn it into a cold-broth bowl. Many writers describe doing exactly that. One notes the buckwheat is hulled, which is why the noodles are pale

  **Restraint is the word that recurs across these posts** — three of them call it the Pyongyang-naengmyeon of makguksu. Some writers used to bolder seasoning found it plain. Vinegar and mustard sit on the table, and three posts say the kitchen will bring more of the sauce if you ask. ₩12,000 through May 2026, ₩13,000 from June

• 녹두전9 ate it
  nokdujeon₩20,000

  The pancake most often ordered alongside, and one comes with the set. Crisp outside, moist in, with chilli slices through it

  ₩20,000 on its own (August 2026). **One writer says it does not quite justify the price**; another calls it the best thing on the table. Two prefer it to the potato pancake

• 샘밭정식9 ate it
  Sambat jeongsik₩19,000 · ₩21,000 · ₩22,000

  The sampler tray: sliced pork, the wrap-filling kimchi, a mung-bean pancake and a **half-size bowl of makguksu**. Two writers advise a pair to order one full bowl and one of these. One says the kitchen swapped the mung-bean pancake for a potato one on request

  **Writers disagree about the half bowl** — four call it generous or at least enough, while one complains it is sized for pensioners. The price went from ₩19,000 (before June 2026) to ₩21,000; a single August 2026 post puts it at ₩22,000

• 편육7 ate it
  pyeonyuk₩27,000

  Pressed, sliced boiled pork. A few slices come with the set; it is also sold on its own

  One writer praises the boiling at length — even fat and lean, the last slice tasting like the first. **The same writer notes a faint pork smell on the first bite**, present for about three slices and then gone. Another post says there was no smell at all

• 보쌈6 ate it
  bossam₩35,000 · ₩37,000 · ₩48,000 · ₩50,000

  Two posts say it is made from chilled domestic pork belly. It comes in a medium and a large. Three writers recommend eating it a slice at a time on top of the noodles

  The medium is ₩35,000 in a May 2026 post and ₩37,000 in an August one; the large ₩48,000 in November 2025 and ₩50,000 in August 2026. One party of five ordered two mediums

• 막국수 곱빼기5 ate it
  makguksu gopppaegi₩16,000 · ₩17,000

  The same bowl, larger. One writer puts it at close to double the standard portion

  ₩16,000 in a May 2026 post, ₩17,000 from August. One writer says the kitchen dropped in an extra whole coil of noodles on top

• 섞어전4 ate it
  seokkeojeon₩18,000 · ₩20,000

  Half mung-bean, half potato on one plate. Two writers say to order this rather than agonise between them

  ₩18,000 in November 2025 and May 2026 posts, ₩20,000 in August 2026. One writer points out that at Gwangjang Market a mixed plate means meat and mung bean, while here it means potato and mung bean

• 감자전3 ate it
  gamjajeon₩20,000

  Finely grated potato, griddled. One writer had the set's mung-bean pancake swapped for this one

  ₩20,000 (August–September 2026). **Opinion splits**: one writer insists on its chew and tells you not to miss it, another calls it an ordinary potato pancake

• 막걸리3 ate it
  makgeolli₩6,000

  One writer names Jipyeong makgeolli. Three drank it with the pork and the pancakes

  ₩6,000 (November 2025). Two writers regret having driven and so having skipped it

• 모둠전1 ate it
  modumjeon

  Chilli, pollack, mushroom and prawn fritters on one plate. Only one post mentions it

  The one writer ordered a large, had it split onto two plates and found it generous. **No post gives a price**

• 조개탕1 ate it
  jogaetang

  A spicy clam broth. Only one post mentions it

  The one writer tried it for the first time and rated it highly. **No post gives a price**

• 부침두부named in 1
  buchim dubu₩14,000

  Pan-fried tofu. It appears only in the one post that copies out the menu board

  ₩14,000 (November 2025). **No writer says they ate it**

• 소주named in 1
  soju₩6,000

  It appears only in the one post that copies out the menu board

  ₩6,000 (November 2025). **No writer says they drank it**

Parking

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

Parking is the building's underground garage, and an hour is free if you give your plate number at the till. Only a handful of writers actually parked: one went a little over the hour and paid ₩2,000 more, another found the bays very tight. One says that compared with the old shop in the lane, parking got far easier after the move into this building. The tidy line about free parking with a meal that appears in many of the other posts is lifted straight from the Naver Place listing and we did not count it as an observation — one of those writers names the listing as the source.

Who came, and with whom

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

Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair. The shop is a floor underground, and nobody writes about a threshold, a ramp, or whether the toilet can be used from a chair. One writer took a lift down, so we know there is one, but we could not establish whether it reaches the shop's own door. Everyone else describes stairs.

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

• Someone else paid1 / 241 of 24 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves7 / 247 of 24 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way16 / 2416 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

What we do not know

• The toilet is the building's, not the shop's. One writer puts it just to the left as you come out; another says there are separate men's and women's ones right by the restaurant. Nobody describes a toilet inside the shop, and since the second writer may be copying the Naver listing we have not treated the separate-toilets claim as confirmed.
• No post here declares a sponsorship. Seven go the other way and post the receipt to prove they paid; one says the meal was someone else's treat. The remaining seventeen simply say nothing about money — which means they did not write it down, not that they paid. One writer describes the kitchen cancelling a missed order and sending over instant coffee on the house; that is service on the day, not a sponsorship.
• Five posts were taken out of the denominator because they are not about this shop. Three are reviews of neighbours — the bakery on the ground floor, the bulgogi house on the same basement level, and a pasta restaurant in the next building. In each the check-in names a different business and Sambat gets a single passing line. The other two are not visits at all: one copies out the Naver Place review statistics and other people's reviews without ever saying what the writer ate, and one is a machine-written puff piece wedged between health-supplement sales links, with no prices anywhere and even the subway exit number contradicting all twenty-five real posts.
• Two different things get said here: the room is big, and the tables are close. Several writers note the seat count and the private rooms and say a group would be comfortable — but one of them adds in the same breath that while the room is large and clean, the tables sit near each other, and another says the spacing has tightened noticeably since his last visit, enough to make the room look cramped at a glance. A big room and elbow room are not the same claim.
• Writers disagree about the radish kimchi that comes with everything. Many call it crisp and cold and the right foil for the quiet noodles — one says he kept reaching for it before the food arrived, another that they piled it high even for a solo diner. But an August 2026 post says it has lost its bite, its ferment and its savour compared with before. Whether that is a difference of palate or a change in the kitchen, we cannot tell from the posts.
• One post gives a different opening time. Thirteen say 11:30 to 21:00 every day, with last orders at 20:30. An April 2026 post says it opens at 11:00. That writer gives no closing time, so we could not record the hours from it — only the last order. We could not establish whether the doors open at 11:00 or 11:30.
• No post here describes bringing a child. One writer reports seeing a high chair, but that writer came alone and the suggestion that it would suit a family is his own guess. Nobody writes about a changing table, or about what a child would eat here.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 373 candidate posts we opened 57 and kept 24 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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