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

Dwaejimam

돼지맘 The name reads as 'pig mum' — dwaeji is pig, mam the borrowed English 'mom' — and the shop cooks its pork for you at the table.

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

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

Dwaejimam is a pork grill on the ground floor of a building in the back lane behind the Ttukseom eating street, close to exit 6 of Ttukseom station. It sells belly, collar and jowl, and all three cost ₩17,000 for a 200g portion — a price written down in 2023 and again in 2024, two years apart and unchanged. The fire is charcoal (one writer says so), and the meat is grilled and cut for you at your table, by the owner or by staff: four of the five posts say this. Two finished with cold noodles. Two things arrive without being paid for — steamed egg and a stew — though which of them differs from post to post, and one writer says hers was a thank-you for having waited. Four writers describe kimchi grilled in butter, or margarine. It is used as a place to bring a group: three of the five came for a work dinner, and one team got a table booking a day ahead. One post gives the hours as 11:30–23:00 daily (one writer only, so it is not in our table). One thing to know: we read five posts, and two of them are the same dinner, written up by two of the companies at the table.

The basics

2 posts say it is walkable from the station.

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

• 계란찜 (서비스)3 ate it
  gyeranjjim

  Steamed egg, risen **in a dome above the rim of its earthenware pot**. Three of the five writers say it **arrived without being paid for** — though **whether everyone gets one, we do not know.**

  Three writers, all of whom ate it. January 2023: "**the bomb steamed egg, on the house** — it floored me before I tasted it, risen in a dome over the pot." June 2025: **seasoned enough not to be bland**, firm enough to go inside a lettuce wrap. **One writer explains why she got hers**: "we'd waited a little to get in, so the owner gave us one" (August 2024). **That is a thank-you for waiting, not a standing offer**, and should not be read as one. The January 2023 writer also found steamed egg on the menu as a paid dish — **nobody recorded that price.**

• 찌개 (김치찌개 · 된장찌개)2 ate it
  jjigae

  **Two writers say it arrives free**, one saw it on the menu. What arrives differs: one ate a **kimchi** stew, another read **soybean** stew off the board.

  Three mention it, two ate it. The fullest account, from June 2025, is of a **kimchi** stew hot enough to make a man off drink want a drink — the pork in it, he writes, tasted nothing like pork stewed at home, and the pot **stole the rice off the table**. An August 2024 visitor says only that **the stew comes free and is very good**. A January 2023 writer saw **soybean** stew on the menu and did not order it. **Which of the two — stew, steamed egg, or both — arrives free differs from post to post.**

• 생삼겹살 · 통삼겹 · 오겹살2 ate it
  saeng-samgyeopsal, tong-samgyeop, ogyeopsal₩17,000

  **What this place is for.** Unfrozen pork belly, brought out **as a whole slab** and cut on the grill in front of you. **₩17,000 for a 200g portion.** *Ogyeopsal*, the same cut with the skin left on, is ordered from the same menu.

  Two writers record it and both ordered it. **₩17,000 for 200g**, a price written down in January 2023 and again in August 2024 — **two years apart, the same figure.** The 2023 visitor ordered the belly **as one uncut slab**, then added *ogyeopsal* when it ran out: the staff let it come up on the grill and **cut it to size at the right moment**, and the fat burst as he bit it. Ordering belly, collar and jowl side by side, he found the **fat-to-lean ratio right** on the belly — though he preferred the collar, and his friend preferred the belly. The 2024 visitor ordered two portions of belly and remarks on **how thick it was cut**; hers is the only post to note that **the fire is charcoal**, and that the smoke is part of the taste. **Three posts never name a cut at all** — two say only "four portions of meat", one says only that every cut they ordered was good.

• 냉면 (물냉면)2 ate it
  naengmyeon

  The cold noodles Koreans order to finish a grill meal. **Nobody recorded the price.**

  Two mention it, both ate it. A June 2025 party "cleared four portions of meat, a bowl of rice and the *naengmyeon* besides"; a January 2023 visitor shared a bowl of the broth kind and found **the thin ice floating in it** exactly the thing to finish on. That same writer, reading the menu, notes *naengmyeon*, soybean stew and steamed egg under the rice-and-noodle dishes. **Only one writer says which kind he had, and nobody wrote down a price.**

• 목살1 ate it
  moksal₩17,000

  Pork collar — **the same weight and the same price as the belly** (200g, ₩17,000).

  Two mention it, one ate it. The January 2023 visitor ordered belly, collar and jowl together and **chose the collar as the best of the three** — juicy under the teeth, and cleaner-tasting than the belly; his friend disagreed and stayed with the belly. The August 2024 post lists it only in passing, when giving the price: belly, collar and rib all at ₩17,000 a portion. **One person ate it; one read it off the menu.**

• 항정살 · 가브리살1 ate it
  hangjeongsal, gabeurisal₩17,000

  *Hangjeongsal* is the pork jowl, *gabeurisal* the thin muscle over the collar — small cuts, little of each per pig, **sold here at the same price as the belly**.

  **One writer, and he ate it.** Reading the menu in January 2023 he lists belly, collar, **jowl and *gabeurisal***, then orders three of them one at a time and grills the jowl last: **springy and good to chew**, but **fatty enough that it began to cloy** — at which point, he says, the buttered kimchi is what you want. **It is one person's word.** Nobody among the five ate the *gabeurisal*.

• 버터에 구운 김치named in 4
  beoteo-e gueun kimchi

  **Kimchi grilled in butter — or margarine —** is the thing this shop is known for among the people who wrote about it: **four of the five** mention it. Whether it is butter or margarine, **the writers themselves disagree, and we do not know.**

  Four writers. **Two call it butter**: one, who says he cannot stand the smell of margarine, insists this was the expensive kind and that the kimchi alone was worth the trip. **One could not tell**: "oddly they bring kimchi with margarine — butter? it looks like margarine — and fried in it, the kimchi is something else." The fourth mentions it only for what it is good for: when the fatty jowl began to cloy, **the grilled kimchi was the answer**. **Two said butter, one said margarine, about the same thing — so we have not decided it here.** Nobody was charged for it.

• 기본 반찬 (파채 · 명이나물 · 파김치)named in 3
  banchan

  What comes with the meat: **shredded spring onion, pickled *myeongi* leaves, spring-onion kimchi, pickled radish and onion, and leaves for wrapping** — with three dips, **ssamjang, wasabi and salt.**

  Three writers. The fullest list, from August 2024: shredded spring onion, spring-onion kimchi and pickled *myeongi* leaves, with ssamjang, wasabi and salt to dip in, **and plenty of leaves for wrapping**. A January 2023 visitor adds pickled radish and onion. Of the two June 2025 posts, one notes that **refills come quickly**, the other that the rice was freshly made and sticky enough that **a bowl of it and a few side dishes made a meal on their own**. **Only one person mentions refills**, so we cannot say it is the rule.

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

Nobody wrote about step-free access. Not one of the five looked at a threshold, a ramp or a doorway. About the inside, one writer notes that the tables are set well apart (January 2023) — but that is about the room once you are in it, not about the door. The licence record puts the shop on the ground floor, but that is copied from a government register, not reported by anyone who went.

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 themselves1 / 51 of 5 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way4 / 54 of 5 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Five posts are not five meals — two of them are one dinner. On 23 June 2025 two curtain-fitting companies ate here together and each wrote it up on its own blog: one as a joint company dinner, one as "two men out walking who decided on meat." Same date, same table, same food. The two texts are genuinely different, so neither is a copy to be thrown out — but counted as occasions, what we know is four, not five. Both posts are also a meal review bolted onto the front of a sales page: in one, our shop occupies the first third and curtains the rest. We read and counted only the meal. Neither is sponsored — one is tagged, in the writer's own words, "paid for it myself, not sponsored, *would like* to be sponsored." And one post tells its story twice. The January 2023 write-up runs: reads the menu, orders the whole belly, reads the menu again, orders collar, belly and jowl one at a time. Either two visits were folded into one post or the text was padded out. We counted only what locks together with the other posts — the ₩17,000 price, the hours, the glass wall — and left the rest alone.
• The smell gets into your clothes — one writer says so. Having liked everything else, the January 2023 visitor names one fault: "if I have to pick one, the extraction is poor and the smell stays in your clothes." That is one of five, and no other post mentions ventilation at all. Pork over charcoal in a small room is no surprise, but it is worth knowing if you are meeting anyone afterwards. The same writer is warm about the room itself: wide and clean, tables set well apart, and one entire wall of glass that lets the light in. On size the posts disagree — "wide and clean" (January 2023) against "neither big nor small, a snug enough size" (August 2024), one writer each.
• Not one of the five posts mentions the toilet. Whether it is inside the shop or shared with the building, whether it is separate for men and women — none of them says.
• Nobody wrote about floors or stairs. The "ground floor" we know comes from the licence record and the address, and none of the five posts mentions a floor at all. What the posts do give you is the lane: it sits in the back lane behind the Ttukseom eating street, which one writer counts in its favour — quieter to eat in — and another experienced as a long wander through side streets before finding it by chance. It is not a shop you see from the main road.
• We could not put opening hours in the table, and no phone number is known. Only one of the five posts gives the hours, and we do not promote one person's note into a table as though several had confirmed it. Here it is as written, in January 2023: "for reference, they are open 11:30 to 23:00 every day." That is three years old, and it comes from the one post that tells its story twice. No post mentions an afternoon break, a last order, or a closing day. No phone number appears in any of the five posts or in our register, so there is currently no way to ring ahead about hours or a table. Reservations are taken — but on one person's word: "in Ttukseom you normally cannot get a table for a group without booking well ahead, and here a day's notice was enough" (April 2023). How she booked, she does not say.

Sources (5)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [#성수동 맛집] 마왕커튼 X 수원커튼프로 #성수동 회식, #돼지맘 에서.... 2025-06-23 · 커튼잘하는집 마왕커튼
2. 마왕이사준 삼겹살 맛있음 성수동맛집 뚝섬역고깃집 햇살포근창 성.... 2025-06-23 · 최저가 커튼맞춤 전문점
3. 성수동 돼지맘 구워주는 돼지고기 맛집 2024-08-16 · voila
4. 성수동 회식하기 좋은 삼겹살 집 돼지맘 2023-04-08 · 아름다운자격
5. 성수동/뚝섬역 맛집 고깃집 "돼지맘" 방문 후기 2023-01-16 · 하늘땅바다

Of 211 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 5 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.

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