Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Donbyeorak Matjip
돈벼락맛집 A pot-lid pork grill a minute from Ttukseom station where the owner does the grilling, open weekdays only
Korean · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Updated · Published
Donbyeorak Matjip is a 'pot-lid' pork grill 62 metres from exit 5 of Ttukseom station, on the first floor above the street at 24 Sangwon-gil. It has been there since 1999, by one writer's account. The meat is Korean pork — belly, neck and jowl — and all three cost the same (₩18,000 for 200g, up from ₩17,000 in the spring of 2026); it is cut and weighed to order. A wide iron lid holds the meat in the middle with kimchi, bean sprouts, onion, squash, mushroom and rice cake around it, and a pot of steamed egg, a kimchi stew and a plate of seasoned squid arrive free and go on the same lid. Leaves for wrapping come by the basket, refilled on request. Instead of a bowl of rice you can order a small pot cooked to order (₩1,000) that leaves scorched rice for the end. The room seats up to seventy, which is why the office workers nearby know it as a place for a work dinner. At lunch it turns into a ssambap house (11:00–14:00). Open weekdays 11:00–22:00 with a break from 14:00 to 16:30, closed Saturday and Sunday. The twenty-six posts we read run from July 2025 to August 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 상원길 24, 지상2층 (성수동1가, 락안빌딩) 24 Sangwon-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-498-9468 |
| Typical spend | ₩1,000 – ₩51,000 |
| Floor area | 144 m² |
| Status | In business |
15 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–22:00 16 of 16 posts last seen 2026-08 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | Weekdays | 14:00–16:30 15 of 15 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Closed | 토요일 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-08 | |
| Closed | 일요일 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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 barely lift a hand. Eighteen posts describe the owner grilling or refilling for them — one writer says her table never moved a finger; another watched the belly go on and the lid fill up around it; a third had the fried rice laid on at the end. One arrived to a nearly bare table, was briefly baffled, and then understood: it was bare because he was going to fill it. Another, seeing the owner working alongside his mother, decided the side dishes had to be hers. Nine posts call the service kind and not one complains about it. The smoke stays, though: one writer notes how strongly the room smells of pork, and another that she bagged her coat — bags and aprons are provided.
- It seats up to seventy. Twenty posts call the room large and sixteen of them quote that figure, which is the restaurant's own. Two note how few places in Seongsu can take a party this size; three mention the space between tables. Nine posts mention booking and four arrived to a table already laid (you can reserve through Naver). Three found a work dinner already under way or the room nearly full on a weekday evening — nobody reports queueing, but a group would do well to book. It is not a quiet room: one writer says the noise did not bother her. Not one post calls it quiet.
- Not one of the twenty-six calls it expensive, and twelve say the opposite. The arithmetic works not because the meat is cheap but because of everything that arrives with it: ₩18,000 for 200g brings a basket of leaves, steamed egg, a kimchi stew with pork in it, seasoned squid, and fried rice to finish — none of it charged. Seven writers point out that elsewhere those are paid sides. One records an actual bill: two portions of belly at ₩34,000, two pots of rice at ₩2,000, a zero-cola at ₩2,000 (April 2026). Read the rise alongside it — ₩17,000 in 2025 became ₩18,000 in spring 2026 — and remember that what counts as complimentary is the house's decision and can change: on the fried rice alone, five posts say free and one gives a price. One post notes that the Zeropay scheme is accepted.
What 26 bloggers said
We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (20) and “Large portions” (19).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Staff grill the meat for you | 18 of 26 posts |
|---|---|
| Reachable by transit | 15 of 26 posts |
| Takes reservations | 9 of 26 posts |
| Cooked to order | 8 of 26 posts |
| Second floor | 7 of 26 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 3 of 26 posts |
| Lift to the floor | 3 of 26 posts |
| Free refills | 2 of 26 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 1 of 26 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
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
Parking
2 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 2 of 26 posts |
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There is no car park of its own, and where to leave the car depends on which post you read. Five posts carry the same sentence about the Seoul Forest A Tower opposite at ₩1,500 per ten minutes — evidently the restaurant's own line — while one names a different private lot at ₩1,800 per half hour. Two writers actually parked. One found the nearby lots too dear, searched for a public one, left the car at the Seongsu culture centre and walked ten minutes: free for the first half hour, then ₩1,000, and with a 50% discount she paid ₩1,700. The other reports the same terms. The cheapest answer and the closest answer are not the same — opposite the door costs ₩1,500 per ten minutes; ten minutes' walk away is free for thirty. It is a minute from the station, and people drink with this meal: better to leave the car.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 4 of 26 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 of 26 posts |
| Came by car | 2 of 26 posts |
Getting there

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Getting inside
| Second floor | 7 of 26 posts |
|---|---|
| Lift to the floor | 3 of 26 posts |
We know there is a lift; we do not know whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. How wide the lift door is, whether there is a step at the entrance, whether there is room to turn inside, whether the seating is chairs or floor — none of the twenty-six says. Only one writer took the stairs, so we do not even know how many there are. That is not a no; it means we do not know. What we can say is that a lift at a first-floor restaurant in Seongsu is rare, and that twenty posts describe a room seating seventy, which suggests the aisles are not tight — though we have not measured them either.
No one mentioned: In a basement · 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 26 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way24 of 26 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 4 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 4 |
| 2026-04 | 4 |
| 2026-06 | 5 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
What we do not know
- How old the place is depends on who you ask. Posts variously say twenty-five years (November 2025), twenty-six (August 2025 and February 2026), twenty-seven (two posts in July 2026) and twenty-nine (April 2026). Only one gives a year: it has been trading since 1999. If that is right, 2026 makes twenty-seven, and neither twenty-five nor twenty-nine fits. The twenty-six and twenty-seven appear to come from the restaurant's own wall — a shop blurb quoted in an August 2025 post already says twenty-six. We read it as twenty-seven without having checked it; that it is an old place is not in doubt. Two posts note that the district has certified it as an exemplary restaurant.
- It is up one floor and there is a lift. Three writers saw it for themselves — one mentions it and then takes the stairs anyway, since it is only one floor. In Seongsu, a post that mentions a lift at a first-floor restaurant is rare enough to be worth recording. But the width of the lift door, whether there is a step at the entrance, whether there is room to turn a wheelchair inside — none of the twenty-six says. That is not a yes; it means the check stops at the lift door. If it matters, ring first — there are two numbers. The licensing record gives 02-498-9468; the number on Naver and in fourteen of the posts, 0507-1356-9468, appears to be a relay (the last four digits match).
- Not one of the twenty-six mentions a lavatory — whether it is inside the restaurant or out in the building's corridor, whether it is split by gender, whether it is locked. These are posts that count the side dishes one by one, name four kinds of leaf and copy out parking rates. That is not a no; it means we do not know. It is on the first floor of a building with other tenants, so a shared corridor lavatory is plausible — but that is our guess, and guesses do not go on the page.
- Nobody reports queueing. Three do report a full room: nearly every table taken late on a weekday, a work dinner already running at seven on a Wednesday, too many people to photograph the place. With seventy seats a wait looks unlikely, but what we checked is only that nobody wrote about one, and that three found it busy on weekday evenings. You can book — nine posts mention it and four did. For a group that looks like the safer route. And note that it closes at weekends entirely: eight posts give Saturday and Sunday as the rest days. One April post says it opens on Saturdays; it is the only one.
- Two posts declare a hosted visit and the other twenty-four say nothing. The two are from February and June 2026, one naming the campaign platform outright. Saying nothing is not the same as taking nothing. Beyond that, the same sentences recur: a line about using only Korean pork at peak freshness appears in eight posts, and 'up to seventy people' in sixteen, in near-identical wording. That is not evidence of payment but evidence of a house blurb — both sentences sit in the shop's own copy, quoted in an August 2025 post. What we can say is that numbers taken from those sentences are the restaurant's, while things each writer saw for herself are ours: the basket of leaves (twenty-two), the size of the portions (nineteen), the free dishes on the lid (sixteen). It is also worth knowing how the writing bunches — ten of the twenty-six fall between April and June 2026, two of them hosted.
Sources (26)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 뚝섬 돈벼락맛집 ⎸ 大혜자 26년 성수 노포 ⎸ 삼겹살・오징어 삼합 .... 2026-02-10 · 양제니 인 발리
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Of 358 candidate posts we opened 63 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.