Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga

Damnok

담록 A basement beef-broth house in a Seoul Forest side lane, where the rice arrives already reheated in the soup

Korean · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga

Updated 2026-09-24 · Published 2026-09-26

Damnok is a beef-broth restaurant one floor below street level at 28 Seoulsup 4-gil, five minutes on foot from either Ttukseom or Seoul Forest station, tucked into a lane off the Seoul Forest café street with Dongbinggo next door and Hoho Sikdang opposite. One bowl carries the place: beef broth simmered from Korean beef, with the rice reheated in it several times the old way so it arrives already in the soup, under a lid of garlic chives and fried spring onion. ₩13,000. Around it sit a tripe version, a buckwheat cold noodle put on for the summer, a raw-beef rice bowl, and plates of boiled beef, raw beef and dumplings. Order one dish a head and the rice, broth and side dishes are unlimited, fetched yourself from a counter at the side. Most seats are at the bar; a few tables seat four. Open daily 11:30 to 21:00, with a two-hour break from 15:00 to 17:00 that rules out a late lunch. It opened in the summer of 2026; the posts we read run from late July to late September.

The basics

4 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

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 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

• 담록 소곰탕8 ate it
  sogomtang₩13,000 · ₩16,000

  **This is what the place is for.** The rice comes already in the bowl, reheated in the broth several times the old way, under a lid of garlic chives and fried spring onion. ₩13,000, or ₩16,000 for the larger bowl with half again as much beef.

  Eight writers ate it and reach for the same words about the broth: clear, unaggressive, seasoned just right. One records shouting 'clean' at the same moment as her companion; another says the surface looks like pond water carried in from Gyeongju. The table card tells you how to eat it — plain first, then salt and pepper, then the house's own chilli pickle stirred into the broth with a few drops of red oil. Three writers call the chilli pickle the making of it.

• 평양냉면4 ate it
  pyeongyang naengmyeon₩13,000

  **The dish at the centre.** Brisket broth, a high-buckwheat noodle, and **a small bowl of cold rice on the side to tip into the broth when the noodles are gone** — four writers single that out as unusual.

  Four ordered it and all liked it. **It comes with kelp vinegar** — two writers suggest starting plain and adding it partway. One notes the noodles break cleanly under the teeth, as buckwheat should.

• 한우 육사시미4 ate it
  hanu yuksasimi₩13,000

  Raw beef, top round, ₩13,000.

  All four who ordered it liked it — clean, no gaminess, fine-grained. One says it is the side to get, without qualification. It comes with oil-and-salt or a dipping sauce.

• 수육3 ate it
  suyuk₩12,000 · ₩23,000

  ₩12,000 for the tasting plate, ₩23,000 for the full one — brisket, shank and tongue.

  Three ordered it and agree it is tender; one wished the slices were a little thicker.

• 양곰탕3 ate it
  yang gomtang₩17,000 · ₩20,000

  The same soup made with tripe. ₩17,000, or ₩20,000 for the large.

  Three had it and they do not agree. One preferred it to the plain version, calling the broth deeper and the meat generous; another wrote simply that the tripe was a bit tough and to order the plain one instead. Thirteen days separate the two.

• 얼갈이 육회 비빔밥2 ate it
  yukhoe bibimbap₩13,000

  ₩13,000.

  Two had it and disagreed about the seasoning: one found it sharper than she expected from a place this restrained, the other thought it judged well and the beef very good. The first suggests the minced-chilli sauce that comes with the soup works better stirred into this bowl.

• 수제 만두2 ate it
  sujemandu₩7,000 · ₩8,000

  Four steamed dumplings ₩7,000, four pan-fried ₩8,000.

  Only two ordered them and both were emphatic — one writes, in effect, order them twice, order them three times. The pan-fried plate comes with three sauces.

• 2인 세트1 ate it
  set for two₩41,000 · ₩42,000

  ₩41,000 or ₩42,000 — two bowls of soup with a plate of boiled beef or raw beef, and drinks.

  Five posts call the sets good value but **only one writer actually ordered one**. The rest recommend it or say it looked worth it; one considered it and then ordered à la carte because she wanted the larger bowl.

• 맥주1 ate it
  beer₩5,000

  **A tteokbokki shop that sells beer** — one writer notes you can have it with either the rice cakes or the chips. No post gives a price.

• 맛보기 육전named in 2
  yukjeon₩9,000

  ₩9,000, on the menu.

  Nobody in our posts ate it. One writer wanted it and was told it was off that day.

• 수제 만둣국named in 2
  mandutguk₩13,000

  ₩13,000 — listed, but nobody we read ordered it.

Parking

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

Nobody parked. Five posts mention parking and three of them repeat the restaurant's own sentence about the Seongdong district sports centre public car park, word for word — one post pastes in the restaurant's entire introduction. The two that speak for themselves say only that there is no parking and that a driver would have to use a public car park nearby. So we can say it has no car park of its own; which nearby one actually works, nobody has checked for us. It is five minutes' walk from either station, so leaving the car is the easier answer.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

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Getting inside

It is a floor below the street, down a staircase. Six posts place it underground and two give directions: look for the sign, then go down. But whether there is a lift, how many steps there are, whether there is a handrail, whether there is a lip at the door, whether a wheelchair or a pushchair could get down — none of the ten says. That is not a no; it means we do not know. If it matters, ring 0507-1497-2435 first. On the question of whether a basement feels closed in, one writer says it does not at all.

No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 saying they paid themselves1 / 91 of 9 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way8 / 98 of 9 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• We threw out twenty of the thirty posts we collected and counted the remaining ten. Nineteen of them arrived as one batch between 14 and 23 September 2026: the blog handles are all random strings, whole sentences and section headings repeat from one to the next, and even the titles line up in pairs. What was missing said more than what was there — not one of the nineteen names the beef broth, the cold noodles, the rice reheated in the soup, the chilli pickle, a price or an opening hour. Several instead mention a soup this restaurant does not serve. A twentieth post turned out to be about a different restaurant altogether. The ten that remain are the ones with prices, times and meals in them. That is the denominator here, and every number on this page comes from those ten.
• Six posts say it is a good place to eat alone, and not one of the six went alone. Every mention is advice to someone else; the writers themselves came with friends, with a companion, with family. That there are many single seats is something several people saw, and we believe them. What nobody gives us is a report from someone sitting at one. Only two of the ten say who they came with at all, so we have not read enough to say what kind of room this is for.
• Nobody writes about queueing. One writer alone describes the place filling up: at weekends it was busy enough that she tells you to book if you would rather not wait, and adds that the tables at the back are kept for bookings, so a party of four or more should reserve. Two posts carry the same line about Naver bookings and the house keeping only half the room reservable. The other eight say nothing about waiting at all — which is not the same as saying there is none.
• Not one of the ten mentions a lavatory — whether it is inside, whether it is shared with the rest of the basement, whether it is split by gender. These are posts that photograph the seats, the coat rail and the self-service counter, and still none of them says. That is not a no; it means we do not know.
• No post declares a sponsorship, and saying nothing is not the same as taking nothing. One of the ten states she paid her own way; the other nine say neither. Half of one post is the restaurant's own marketing copy, ending in thanks to the reader, so we have not counted the travel and parking lines from that passage. Only three posts give prices, all from late July and early August; none of the seven September posts carries a single figure, so treat the prices here as two months old. The place had only just opened — one writer calls it new, another remembers a different Korean restaurant in the same room — and the menu may still be settling: two dish names differ between the late-July menu and the early-August one.

Sources (9)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 서울숲 맛집 담록, 성수에서 곰탕과 평양냉면을 동시에 즐기자 2026-09-24 · 방랑자의 미식여행 · via Daum
2. 서울숲 맛집 담록 점심 소곰탕 수육 까지 2026-09-24 · 스힝의 패션&뷰티 / 맛집&카페 · via Daum
3. [서울숲] 성수 국밥맛집 담록 솔직 강추 후기 육사시미 맛집 2026-09-20 · 상똥이 트위스트 · via Daum
4. 서울숲 저녁 맛집 담록 쾌적한 한식집 평양냉면 추천 2026-09-18 · 노과당도약진행 · via Daum
5. 성수 점심 분위기 좋은 소 곰탕 전문점 담록 식사 후기 2026-09-18 · PoPo의 개인 블로그 :-) · via Daum
6. 성수 맛집 담록 찐후기 l 혼밥하기 좋은 맛집 곰탕 맛집 2026-09-08 · S양의 일상 · via Daum
7. 뚝섬 서울숲 맛집 담록 | 든든한 점심 식사로 추천하는 소곰탕 2026-08-07 · 히쓰토리 · via Daum
8. 서울숲 맛집 데이트 코스로 좋은 깔끔한 식당 담록 성수 2026-08-05 · 새 로 운 시 작 ! · via Daum
9. 담록 - 가성비 좋은 소곰탕과 수육이 맛있는 성수 점심 맛집 2026-08-03 · 슈니로그 소소한 일상의 행복 · via Daum

Of 229 candidate posts we opened 43 and kept 9 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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