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

Gangnamgyoja, Ttukseom-yeok-jeom

강남교자 뚝섬역점 “Gangnam gyoja” — gyoja are the steamed pork dumplings the chain is built on, and Gangnam is where its first shop opened, in southern Seoul, not this neighbourhood. Ttukseom Station branch.

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

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

Gangnam Gyoja Ttukseom is a kalguksu house — hand-cut wheat noodles in broth — on the ground floor of the Seoul Forest A Tower, right by exit 5 and 6 of Ttukseom station on line 2. The name points at Gangnam, where the first branch opened; this is one shop in that chain, and it feeds the offices of Seongsu and Seoul Forest at lunchtime. Noodles and steamed pork dumplings are the heart of it, but the menu also runs to ox-bone soup, spicy chicken soup, boiled pork and rice-cake soup, with three cold or restorative dishes added for the summer. One dish is a thousand won cheaper on its own day of the week, and the room that fills at noon empties by one. The posts we read span November 2022 to September 2026.

The basics

10 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

• 마늘 겉절이 김치 (기본찬)24 ate it
  maneul kimchi

  **The single most written-about thing here** — twenty-four of the twenty-eight posts mention it. Not aged kimchi but geotjeori, the fresh-made kind, **heavy on garlic and chilli and sharp with it.** Two writers give it its proper name, maneul kimchi, garlic kimchi. Seven describe the pot left on the table for you to help yourself

  One writer, a self-described kalguksu specialist, says few noodle houses do kimchi better; another wishes she had piled more on her plate at the start. **Go carefully if you are not used to chilli** — one man sweated so hard he briefly worried about his health, and another rinses it in water before eating. **Often it is the only side dish:** nine posts also got a sweet-pickled radish salad, though one regular says what comes alongside changes from day to day. You can buy the kimchi to take home — ₩2,000 for 130g, ₩14,500 for a kilo, by a July 2026 post

• 공기밥12 ate it
  gongibap

  **Rice is free** — six posts say so. **It does not always arrive by itself, though:** one writer advises asking when you order, because at a busy lunch nobody will think to bring it. Two others got a half bowl automatically with their noodles

  One post notes that takeaway orders add ₩1,000 a dish. A 2022 writer grumbles that noodle houses at this price usually start you with a little bowl of barley rice, and here you get plain rice and only if you ask

• 교자만두 (10알 / 반판 5알)11 ate it
  gyoja mandu₩4,500 · ₩5,000 · ₩9,000 · ₩10,000

  Pork dumplings, brought to the table in their steamer basket. **A half order of five is on the menu, and two writers say that is the right amount for two people.** Six describe the juice running out at the first bite. Two cannot tell them from the Myeongdong original — one of them wants to try it blind

  ₩9,000 for ten and ₩4,500 for five in November 2023; ₩10,000 and ₩5,000 by 2026. The dumplings floating in the noodle soup are a different, thinner kind, and **three writers complain they are mostly wrapper** — do not confuse them with these. A buckwheat-and-kimchi dumpling appears on the November 2023 menu and on none of the later ones; one writer wishes they had a kimchi filling

• 칼국수10 ate it
  kalguksu₩9,000 · ₩10,000

  The house dish, and not the pale broth you might expect: minced beef and fried onion go on top, which turns it brown. Six writers find small dumplings dropped in as well. Seven measure it against Myeongdong Gyoja, the famous Seoul noodle house — the dumplings come out about even, the broth does not — and three repeat the same story, that the founder of this chain cooked there. **We could not verify it; we count only that three people wrote it**

  ₩9,000 in a November 2023 post, ₩10,000 in the 2026 ones. One writer, back in 2022, thought the noodles machine-rolled and said so; four others find them springy and well seasoned. On quantity the posts split — one says there is no need to order the large, another finished it still wanting more. Extra noodles are ₩2,000; rice is free if you ask when you order

• 얼큰칼국수5 ate it
  eolkeun kalguksu₩8,000 · ₩9,500 · ₩10,000

  The spicy version, built on a beef-bone broth. **Two writers warn that it is not very spicy at all** — one says outright that anyone who wants real heat should order something else. It is the Tuesday discount dish

  ₩9,000 down to ₩8,000 on its day in a November 2022 post, ₩9,500 in November 2023, ₩10,000 by 2026. One writer puts the depth of it down to the beef in the bowl

• 알뜰보쌈5 ate it
  altteul bossam₩12,000

  **A one-person portion of boiled pork.** It comes with dressed garlic chives, salted shrimp and its own kimchi, and two writers treat it as the thing to put beside a bowl of noodles rather than a main event. **Four single out the chives**

  ₩12,000 throughout, from November 2023 to March 2026. Two find the meat soft rather than dry, one finds it lean and clean, and one thought it had been sitting a while after the pot. The full-size platter runs ₩39,000 in 2023 and ₩42,000 in 2026, but **not one of the twenty-eight writers ordered it**

• 완당떡국4 ate it
  wandang tteokguk₩9,000 · ₩10,000

  Rice cake and wandang — thin-skinned dumplings — in one bowl, under laver, minced beef and spring onion by two accounts. Friday is its discount day, and **three of the four who ate it came on a Friday**

  ₩9,000 in the 2022 and 2023 posts, ₩10,000 by 2026, ₩9,000 on Fridays. **The dumplings divide opinion:** a 2022 writer got mostly wrapper and would rather have had a proper dumpling soup; two 2025 posts (by the same person) call them soft and clean-tasting; a 2026 one finds nothing special in them. All of them agree it is good the morning after

• 초계국수 (여름 계절메뉴)4 ate it
  chogye guksu₩10,000 · ₩11,000

  **A summer-only cold noodle dish.** Chilled chicken broth, shredded chicken breast, cucumber and radish over **green noodles made with chlorella** — four writers remark on the colour. Two say it eats more like naengmyeon, the cold buckwheat noodle, than like the sharp, soupy dish the name promises

  ₩10,000 on the November 2023 menu board, ₩11,000 in the 2025 and 2026 posts. **There is a good deal of mustard in it already** — one writer says to skip it if you dislike the stuff. Another, a regular, finds the sourness pitched differently from visit to visit. Two mention that the ice in it holds to the last mouthful. One notes that rice comes free with it

• 닭개장3 ate it
  dakgaejang₩10,000 · ₩11,000

  Yukgaejang, the spicy shredded-beef soup, made with chicken instead — bracken, glass noodles and spring onion in it, by one account. **One writer chose it precisely because the beef version is not on the menu.** Monday is its discount day

  ₩10,000 in the November 2023 and February 2024 posts, ₩11,000 by 2026. One writer finds it mildly seasoned, another finds a proper kick in it. Two tipped their rice into the bowl

• 얼큰수제비3 ate it
  eolkeun sujebi₩9,000 · ₩9,500 · ₩10,000

  Hand-torn dough in the same spicy bone broth. **Two writers reach for the same comparison — jjamppong, the spicy seafood noodle soup.** Thursday is its discount day

  ₩9,500 in November 2023, ₩10,000 in the 2025 posts, ₩9,000 on Thursdays. One writer finds the dough rolled too thin to have much chew; another calls it the best thing here and recommends the perilla version alongside it

• 떡만두국2 ate it
  tteok mandu guk₩9,500 · ₩10,000

  Rice cake and meat dumplings in the bone broth. One writer calls the broth milky, another says the bowl is generous

  ₩9,500 in November 2023, ₩10,000 by 2026. One writer's verdict: nothing ancestral about it, just a dumpling soup nobody would object to

• 비빔국수2 ate it
  bibim guksu₩9,000 · ₩10,000

  **Made with the same green chlorella noodles as the cold chicken dish** — both writers who ate it say so. It is the noodle in the couples' set, and can be swapped for another

  ₩9,000 in November 2023, ₩10,000 by 2026. The two disagree about the sauce: one finds it clean and restrained, the other strong enough to advise swapping it out if you are sensitive to that

• 연인세트 (알뜰보쌈 + 교자만두 4알 + 비빔국수)2 ate it
  yeonin set₩23,000 · ₩25,000

  A set for two. **The noodle can be swapped** — one writer traded the cold bibim noodles for hot kalguksu. **Two posts say the sets are only available from three in the afternoon.** There is a family set as well, built on the full pork platter; nobody in these posts ordered it

  ₩23,000 in November 2023, ₩25,000 by 2026 (the family set goes ₩45,000 to ₩48,000). **Whether it beats ordering à la carte is disputed:** one writer, meat-loving boyfriend in tow, thought it suited them exactly; another says the sets offer no real saving over the separate dishes

• 설렁탕1 ate it
  seolleongtang₩10,000 · ₩11,000

  **A noodle house that also does seolleongtang, the milky ox-bone soup.** Ten posts copy it off the menu board; **only one writer actually ordered it.** Wednesday is its discount day

  ₩10,000 in November 2023, ₩11,000 by 2026. The one writer who ate it found the broth rich without being salty and the beef properly tender, and notes that rice comes with it. **That is one person's word, and no more**

• 들깨수제비1 ate it
  deulkkae sujebi₩10,000 · ₩11,000

  Perilla-seed sujebi. Seven posts copy it off the board, **one writer ate it**, and a second recommends it without having tried it

  ₩10,000 in November 2023, ₩11,000 by 2026. The one writer who had it wrote a single line: the perilla comes through, nutty and warm

• 콩국수 (여름 계절메뉴)1 ate it
  kongguksu₩11,000 · ₩12,000

  **Summer only** — a November 2025 post reports it already taken off. It is the dearest noodle dish here

  ₩11,000 in November 2023, ₩12,000 by 2026. The one writer who had it found the soy broth deep and nutty but on the thin side — and says the seasonal dishes, not the kalguksu, are what bring her back

• 반계탕 (여름 계절메뉴)1 ate it
  bangyetang

  Half a chicken in ginseng broth — the summer restorative, in a half portion. **It turns up in only two of the twenty-eight posts:** one writer went for it on the hottest day of the year, the other just copied it off the board

  **Nobody records what it costs.** The one writer who ate it says only that the chicken fell apart the way it should. If you want it in summer, ring first

• 면사리 추가named in 4
  myeonsari₩2,000

  Extra noodles, ₩2,000 by four accounts — **though nobody in these posts actually ordered them.** One writer finished still a little short and resolved to add them next time; another was pleased to save the money, preferring the free rice

  The arithmetic is simple enough: the rice is free and the noodles are not

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

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Getting inside

We do not know whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. That it is on the ground floor is certain — twenty-five of the twenty-eight carry the address with the floor in it, and two of those say it in their own words rather than in a copied line. But nobody looked at the doorway: not one writer mentions a step, a threshold or what kind of door it is. The only line about wheelchairs at all says that being on the ground floor makes it easy for pushchairs and wheelchairs alike, and that writer was reasoning from the floor number rather than from anything she watched happen. The high chair in her photographs, on the other hand, she did see. Bear in mind too that the toilet is out in the building behind a keypad.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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 themselves4 / 284 of 28 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way24 / 2824 of 28 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 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

What we do not know

• There is no toilet in the restaurant. It is out in the Seoul Forest A Tower, and two writers went and reported back. One leaves directions: don't walk all the way down to the cafe end, turn in by the pharmacy — and the door has a keypad, so you need the code from the shop. She found it clean. Four other posts list separate men's and women's toilets, but all four are copying the shop's own listing, and one of them corrects herself a paragraph later to say the toilet is outside. Nobody says whether there is an accessible cubicle.
• Not one post names a closing day. Fourteen give opening hours, in two camps: eight split the week — eleven to nine on weekdays, last orders half eight; eleven to half eight at weekends, last orders eight — while six simply write eleven to nine, some of them adding "daily". The six are not contradicting the eight; they are leaving the weekend out. The eight that do spell it out agree exactly, from a post in November 2023 to one in July 2026. If you are going at the weekend, plan on a half-eight close. Two posts say there is no afternoon break, and one of them only came in because every other kitchen nearby had shut for it. Two say the set menus start at three in the afternoon; one says the same of the alcohol. Nobody writes about booking a table, though one writer, copying the shop's price sheet, reproduces a line asking weekend customers to ring ahead.
• No post declares a sponsorship. Four state that they paid their own way and twenty-four say nothing either way; nobody records being given anything. Twenty-eight posts are not twenty-eight people, though — one blogger wrote up the same rice-cake soup twice, in September and November 2025, which makes twenty-seven. He links to a third visit of his that we do not have. And two of the original thirty were set aside: a month-long diary that gives this place a single line, and a round-up of twenty lunch spots near the station that never says what was eaten.
• Two regulars flatly contradict each other about the chain. This is a franchise with branches across the country, and three posts take it up. One, from September 2026, says the branches vary a great deal and that this one happens to be good. Another, from November 2025, says there is no difference between branches at all, which is why she drops into whichever is nearest. Both had eaten at several. We have no way to settle it. What we can say is that every price and every dish described here comes from posts about this branch — we used no review of any other. Eight writers record coming back to this one.
• Only two writers discuss the service, and they describe opposite experiences. One was glad of the warning that the bibim noodles come strongly dressed, and of the offer to swap them. The other spent her meal being topped up: staff coming round again and again to refill the cutlery and napkins, rocking the table each time they opened the lid, and carrying off the mustard mid-bowl, so that she could not add it to her cold noodles later as she had planned. Her plea is simply to leave a table alone while people are eating. With two accounts we cannot say which is the house's normal.
• The posts disagree about how much food you get. Three say plenty — no need for the large, full after finishing, a generously sized bowl. Against that, one writer finished still a little short and resolved to add noodles next time, and another suspects a grown man might want more. The rice is free and extra noodles are ₩2,000, so ask for rice first if you want padding — though one post warns that the rice does not always come by itself, and to mention it when you order.
• How fast the food arrives is also disputed. Two writers were served almost at once, and one waited — none of the three says how long. Both of the quick ones note in the same breath that the room was quiet when they came.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 352 candidate posts we opened 68 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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