Gilpost · Mapo-gu, Seogyo-dong
DOGOUT
도그아웃 홍대 Dogeuaut Hongdae An American-style hot dog counter facing the main gate of Hongik University, making its own sausages
Other · Mapo-gu, Seogyo-dong
Data as of · Published ·
A hot-dog counter of about ten square metres on the ground floor of the Calliope building, in the lane facing the main gate of Hongik University. There are four dogs — base, french, elote, beef chilli — and you choose the sausage that goes inside: original, cheese or spicy. The shop says it butchers and smokes its own pork on the premises. With only seven or eight stools facing the wall, this is a place you eat at alone or carry away; fries, soft drinks and beer sit alongside.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 마포구 와우산로23길 9, 칼리오페 1층 124호 (서교동) 9 Wausan-ro 23-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1484-3330 |
| Typical spend | ₩7,000 – ₩9,500 |
| Floor area | 29 m² |
| Status | In business |
11 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 16 posts: 12 wrote Mon–Sat 11:00–20:00, 3 wrote 11:00–20:00.
| Open | Mon–Sat | 11:00–20:00 12 of 16 posts last seen 2026-03 |
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| Open | 11:00–20:00 3 of 16 posts last seen 2025-11 | |
| Closed | 일요일 14 of 14 posts last seen 2026-03 |
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
- There is nowhere to sit facing someone. Every writer who describes the room describes a counter: a till at the front with stools down both walls, two long single-file rows, benches facing the wall. Three of them count the seats and very nearly agree — seven people, eight stools, about eight. One puts the whole shop at some ten square metres. Which is why so many posts call it a good place to eat alone; one writer says most of the customers that day were on their own and the rest were taking the food away.
- The stools are the luggage rack. The seats lift open to take a bag, and one writer notes they are big enough to swallow a winter coat. Two of them call it the best use of a small room they have seen. In a shop this narrow it means your bag does not have to go on the floor, which is worth knowing in the months you arrive wearing a padded jacket.
- One dog is a meal. Nothing comes up here more often than the size of it: bigger than expected and filling; two people could split one set and still be full; one writer could not finish; another ate nothing else until ten at night. One says the sausage is thicker than a can of Coke. Several describe fetching the disposable gloves and the plastic knife and fork from the self-service bar, because it does not go in one bite.
- It sells beer and nobody drank any. Five posts note beer on the board and not one of them says they had a glass. Two are put out about it: they only spotted it after ordering, and promise themselves beer next time. The twelve writers who ordered a drink all ordered a soft one. It looks like the sort of place people eat at in daylight and leave — but that is a guess, not a count. No post names a brand, and none gives a price.
- How far it is depends on which door you start from. Four writers put it two minutes from the university's main gate — one says it is straight across a single crossing — while from exit 9 of the subway station the estimates run five, six, seven, eight or nine minutes. Being opposite a campus, it collects posts about gaps between lectures and stops on the way home from work. Everyone walked; not one writer arrived by car.
- The reward for a receipt review has changed. Five posts from November 2025 say a photo review on Naver gets you two chicken tenders; a March 2026 post says nachos. What it is now, only going will tell.
What 18 bloggers said
We read all 18 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (15) and “Cramped” (11).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Seats to sit and eat | 13 of 18 posts |
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| Reachable by transit | 11 of 18 posts |
| Review event | 8 of 18 posts |
| Counter seating only | 7 of 18 posts |
| Beer served | 5 of 18 posts |
| Takeout | 4 of 18 posts |
| Bag storage | 4 of 18 posts |
| Self-order screen | 3 of 18 posts |
| Ground floor | 3 of 18 posts |
| Open kitchen | 2 of 18 posts |
| Cooked to order | 1 of 18 posts |
| Wi-Fi | 1 of 18 posts |
| Foreign customers in the room | 1 of 18 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 beef chili dog (비프칠리 독) — 15 of 18 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
Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 5 of 18 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 1 of 18 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 3 |
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Nobody writes about the doorway. That it is at street level is certain, though we counted it carefully: all eighteen posts carry "1층" in the address line, but in most of them that line is printed by the check-in widget — three writers put the floor in a sentence of their own, one placing it on the ground floor of the named building, one beside a café in the same block, one transcribing the header herself as "1F". But whether there is a step at the door, whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get through it, how wide it is — not a line. What the posts do agree on is that every seat is a high stool facing the wall and the gangway is narrow, which is worth knowing before you go.
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 · 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 disclosing payment2 of 18 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 18 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 18 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 20 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 9 |
| 2026-03 | 4 |
What we do not know
- Why eighteen and not twenty-six. Six of the twenty-six collected posts have been removed. Five of them are about a different branch — a pub in Hapjeong — whose name overlaps enough that the Naver check-in widget attached them here. Their text describes a wide room with group tables, an outdoor terrace, two televisions, army stew and pasta and fried chicken, a mid-afternoon break and closing at eleven at night: none of which fits ten square metres. One of them prints the pub's own street address at the foot of the post; another tags it as the Hapjeong branch with a different lot number; a third says the writer liked both the Seongsu and the Hapjeong branch. The sixth post is about a boiled-pork restaurant down the road entirely, and mentions this shop only in a list of related links at the bottom. Of the twenty that remain, two are not visits: one is a round-up of four American-style hot-dog shops in Seoul, and one calls itself, in the writer's own words, a review written without going. That leaves eighteen.
- No writer describes a toilet they used. One post lists separate men's and women's facilities, but the line runs on from takeaway, wi-fi and dogs-welcome — it is the platform's amenity list, not an observation. Another notes that the wi-fi password and the toilet password are both posted on the wall, which suggests a lavatory shared with the building. Whether it is inside the shop, and whether it is divided, no one of the eighteen says.
- Prices have gone up, and two posts written the same week disagree. A September 2025 post gives ₩7,500 for the elote and ₩8,000 for the beef chilli; by March 2026 they are ₩8,500 and ₩9,500. But a post from 12 March quotes a range of ₩7,800–9,800 for a dog on its own, while one from the 18th lists all four individually at ₩7,000, ₩8,500, ₩8,500 and ₩9,500. Whether swapping in the cheese or spicy sausage costs extra appears in no post at all, so we cannot say whether that explains the gap. The meal prices here exclude the combo with a drink and the side of fries.
- The hours are near-unanimous, with one exception. Of the sixteen posts that give them, fifteen say eleven in the morning to eight at night, closed Sundays. The sixteenth, from September 2025, says ten to ten — and since the posts on either side of it say eleven to eight, we cannot tell whether that writer mistyped a copied line or the shop really did keep longer hours that autumn. As for a mid-afternoon break or a last order, not one post mentions either — which is to say nobody wrote it down, not that there is none.
- Two posts declare a sponsorship, one declares that she paid, and the remaining fifteen say nothing. Both declarations are in the hashtags at the very bottom. One thing more is worth putting beside that: nine of the eighteen visits went up inside nine days, between the 3rd and the 11th of November 2025. We found no grounds to drop them — the nine read nothing alike. One is about a mirror ball, one about the lecture hall across the road, one about being warned that the sausage smoker sometimes puts smoke through the room, one about a government voucher being accepted; the prices they quote differ, and no two carry the same hashtags. Three of them say they came because of a particular YouTube channel. It looks like the week the shop was being discovered — and that is as far as we can honestly put it.
- Nobody queued. Two posts touch on waiting: one saw enough lunchtime custom, eating in and taking away, to think a wait could build; the other wonders — with a question mark of her own — whether a crowd would mean waiting, given how narrow the room is. With seven or eight stools it reads less like a place with a queue than a place that simply fills, and four writers carried their food away. One says the food came about ten minutes after ordering.
- The posts do not agree on how you order. Three describe a kiosk — a small screen, or a tablet on the counter. A November 2025 post says the opposite: there is no kiosk, you order and pay in one go on the card terminal. Two more simply order from the person behind the counter. Whether a machine arrived and changed, or four people are describing the same machine differently, the posts cannot settle.
Sources (18)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 홍대 핫도그 맛집 "도그아웃" 수제소시지 엘로떼 독 후기 2026-03-18 · YOU DO YOU
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- [홍대맛집] 미국감성 핫도그 맛집 '도그아웃' 퇴근길 방문후기 2026-03-13 · 현무무의 하루
- [서울/홍대]홍대입구역 핫플 분위기 좋은 핫도그 맛집-도그아웃 2026-03-12 · ˖˖꙳well beingو
- [홍대 맛집]홍대 핫도그 맛집 -도그아웃 홍대 2025-11-11 · 얼짱곱창의 하루
- 도그아웃 홍대 점심 추천 핫도그 맛집 2025-11-09 · 홍대생의 서울여행
- 서울 홍대 미국식 핫도그 점심 맛집 추천 도그아웃 홍대점 2025-11-09 · 맛집을 찾아 떠나는 여행자
- [서울/마포구] 도그아웃 — 홍대 미국식 핫도그 맛집 방문기 2025-11-09 · 맛집 뷰티 일상
- 극강의 미국맛! 미국식 핫도그 맛집 도그아웃 홍대점 2025-11-08 · 삶을 톺아보다
- 홍대 미국식 핫도그 맛집 도그아웃 2025-11-06 · 토끼의 카페 기행
- 서울 마포구 홍대 미국식 핫도그 맛집 탐험 방문기 [도그아웃 홍대] 2025-11-05 · Tiny joys ✨
- 빵짱투어：“[도그아웃] 홍대 핫도그 맛집 방문기” 【홍대맛집】 2025-11-05 · 빵짱투어
- 홍대 미국식 핫도그 맛집 도그아웃 방문 후기(채주부 핫도그) 2025-11-03 · 누리는 하루
- 홍대 맛집 가볼만한곳 두툼한 수제 소세지로 만든 특별한 핫도그 맛.... 2025-10-30 · 나비의 하루
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- 미국식핫도그 맛집 두툼한 수제 소지지가 일품인 도그아웃 홍대 2025-06-24 · 정푸름의 이모저모 리뷰 '◡'
- 홍대 핫도그 맛집 도그아웃 홍대 미국식핫도그 맛집 추천 2025-05-30 · Orange silver
- 도그아웃 / 마포구 서교동 :) 삐삐데이 2025-05-09 · B B I B B I D A y ྀི
Of 293 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 18 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.