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Ttukseom Myeongpum Jokbal Fusion Pocha

뚝섬명품족발퓨전포차 "Ttukseom finest jokbal fusion pocha" — jokbal is braised pig's trotter, a pocha a late-night drinking place

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

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A trotter house that is also a pocha, down a lane off Sangwon-gil by Ttukdo market; it opened in October 2025, which four of the posts we read remark on. Jokbal, ₩38,000 for a medium, and tofu with stir-fried kimchi at ₩15,000 are the core, with a board split half bossam, half trotter (₩58,000) and a spicy grilled version. Half the writing about this place is about the side dishes — a bean-sprout soup per person, a kimchi stew as standard, and eight or so plates of salted squid, acorn jelly, chive salad and pickles that are refilled as they empty. Lunch is a separate trade: everything but the bossam set is under ₩10,000 — bibimbap in a stone bowl at ₩9,500, soft tofu stew at ₩9,000 — and the offices nearby come for it. At night it is a work-dinner room, round tables pushed together for company parties while older locals drink alongside; they take reservations by phone. A few minutes' walk from Ttukseom station, inside a lane, with a sign two writers call hard to miss.

The basics

Address서울특별시 성동구 상원길 38, 1층 (성수동1가)
38 Sangwon-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
Phone0507-1483-2293
Typical spend₩9,000 – ₩58,000
Floor area145 m²
StatusIn business

3 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

OpenMon–Sat11:00–23:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2025-11
Closed일요일 2 of 2 posts last seen 2025-11

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

  1. The price is the point — not one writer calls this place expensive. A medium trotter is ₩38,000 and the verdicts are that it is fair, that the cooking and the value meet. Lunch especially. Everything but the bossam set is under ₩10,000, which one writer notes is no longer common; another is struck that side dishes come this well at this price. The ₩9,500 stone-bowl bibimbap arrives with five sides and a fried egg. Even the pocha list is about money. A writer at a work dinner asked the owner why a trotter house sells bar snacks, and reports his answer: times are hard, and rather than have people move on to a second and third place, they may as well order something small here once the trotter has filled them up. Hence the ₩15,000 omelette and the ₩13,000 fishcake soup.
  2. They top the side dishes up — two writers say so, one finding plates refilled as they emptied, the other told to ask and more would come. Two posts list what arrives: kimchi, salted squid, chive salad, pickles and bean-sprout salad in one; in the other, acorn jelly, raw garlic, stem-lettuce pickle, shredded radish and fried courgette as well. The bean-sprout soup comes per person — both note it — and a kimchi stew is included. Leaves, soybean paste, salted shrimp and green chilli come with the trotter. One writer was told the oyster kimchi is made in house. The complimentary stew, though, divides them. One records it without comment; the other could not work out what it was — a kimchi soup of no determinate flavour. On the trotter and the sides the two agree; on this they do not.
  3. It is a room for work dinners — the thing most writers agree on. One counts seating for more than forty and a company party with four round tables pushed together; another booked by phone and says being able to reserve made it the better choice, noting too that each person gets their own dish of sauce. It is not a loud room, though. Writers describe it as reading more like a clean restaurant than a trotter joint, with low lighting and space between the tables — two of them say so. Who comes is recorded as well. At lunch most tables are people from nearby offices; in the evening one writer found eighty per cent of them older locals having a drink with their food, and two note that the flats around mean neighbourhood trade. One family came with a child, and the husband and the child ate very well.
  4. You walk from Ttukseom station — though writers give different exits. Two say exit 4, straight into the lane where the shop appears at once and the sign is very loud indeed; another says two minutes from exit 6, with a retro sign right as you turn in. All three describe a lane, two of them a sign hard to miss, and either exit seems to be a few minutes. Flats surround it, and two writers reckon most custom is local. This is not a spot visitors find by accident. One notes a four-leaf clover on the sign and a frontage that looks old-fashioned but fond — and says the inside surprised her: she had expected a rough bar and found the room warm and pleasant.

What 6 bloggers said

We read all 6 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (4) and “Not expensive” (4).

What they liked

Large portions4 of 6 posts
Not expensive4 of 6 posts
Friendly staff1 of 6 posts
Roomy1 of 6 posts
Clean1 of 6 posts
Returning customer1 of 6 posts
Quiet1 of 6 posts

Things you can check on site

Reachable by transit3 of 6 posts
Free refills2 of 6 posts
Takes reservations1 of 6 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

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

Group visit2 of 6 posts
Came with children1 of 6 posts
Family visit1 of 6 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Ttukseom Myeongpum Jokbal Fusion Pocha is

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

Nobody writes about wheelchair or pushchair access. In the six first-hand accounts the words ramp, threshold and step never appear. It is on the ground floor and appears to be entered straight from the lane, but whether there is a step, we do not know. What is recorded of the room is that there are many tables — one writer counts seating for more than forty — and that they are set well apart, with both round and square tables. So there is likely room to move; that is our inference and not a record. One family came with a child, but nobody mentions a high chair either.

No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 saying they paid themselves2 of 6 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way4 of 6 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 posts we gathered, 24 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.

2025-12-135 posts in one day
2025-12-125 posts in one day
2025-12-115 posts in one day
2025-12-105 posts in one day
2025-12-094 posts in one day

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

10111203
Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-101
2025-113
2025-121
2026-031

What we do not know

  • Twenty-four of the thirty posts were one person's write-up run through a machine, so we did not count them — the largest case we have met. They appeared across five days, 9 to 13 December 2025. Twelve of the blogs are named with meaningless strings of letters; the rest carry nicknames with no bearing on the shop. All twenty-four end with the same single hashtag, all twenty-four claim to have ordered a medium trotter and the tofu with kimchi, and all twenty-four repeat the same eight sentences — the wide-set tables, the absence of the usual trotter-house din, the neighbours from the flats around, the tofu generous and hot, no muskiness and a restrained seasoning, the varied lunch menu popular with local offices. The original is in our own corpus: a post from 20 November 2025, which contains every one of those eight sentences. The prices and even the detail that the bean-sprout soup comes per person were carried over verbatim. What one person saw in November, twenty-four wrote up in December as their own. Counting them would inflate every number on this page twenty-five fold. So we counted the six posts by people who went — 30 October 2025 to 4 March 2026. Six is a small number. Please read every "so many writers say" on this page as a count within those six. One example of what the machine produces. One of the twenty-four writes that parking was ample and convenient. In the six real accounts there is not one line about parking. Believe that sentence and we would be directing you to a car park nobody has seen.
  • Nobody writes about floors — the address is the ground floor and the six posts leave it there. No upstairs, no private room in any of them. One records a company party with four round tables pushed together, which suggests a single room shared out.
  • Nobody writes about the toilet. None of the six mentions it — whether it is inside, shared with the building, or separated by sex, we do not know — and this despite two of them being work dinners of several hours with drink.
  • Nobody reports queueing. One lunchtime writer found most tables taken by people from nearby offices and counted the quick turnover as a virtue, but no one says they waited. In the evening one party booked by phone — worth doing for a work dinner — while another decided in a group chat that same Thursday afternoon and still found a table.

Sources (6)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. [뚝섬]점심특선 가성비 좋은 "뚝섬명품족발퓨전포차" 2026-03-04 · 성수와 뚝섬사이
  2. 뚝섬역 직장인 한식 점심 추천|가성비 좋은 ‘뚝섬명품족발퓨전포차’ 2025-12-30 · 평범하지만 조금은 특별한 ming diary ෆ · via Daum
  3. 뚝섬 족발 맛집 - 뚝섬명품족발퓨전포차 2025-11-20 · 돼뚱돼뚱돼뚱 · via Daum
  4. [뚝섬 명품 족발 퓨전 포차] 성수_족발이 안달고 촉촉 2025-11-19 · 아라다 일상
  5. 뚝섬역 맛집 퀄리티가 다른 성수동 명품족발 2025-11-08 · 떵이네블로그
  6. [뚝섬] 회식하기 좋은 족발 보쌈과 다양한 포차 메뉴가 있는 뚝섬명품족발퓨전포차 2025-10-30 · haengwoons · via Daum

Of 145 candidate posts we opened 92 and kept 6 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.