Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Gangnammyeonok, Seongsu-jeom
강남면옥 성수점 “Gangnam myeonok” — a myeonok is a noodle house, and Gangnam is the district across the river in southern Seoul where the first one opened, not this neighbourhood. Seongsu branch. The noodles are Hamhung-style, from what is now North Korea: thin, chewy, and served dressed in chilli sauce as often as in broth.
Korean · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Updated · Published
Gangnam Myeonok Seongsu is a Hamhung-style cold-noodle house on the ground floor of an office building by exit 4 at Ttukseom, one of a number of branches, with the original in Gangnam. The sign says noodles, but seventeen of the twenty-seven people who ate here ordered the braised beef short ribs. A jug of warm beef broth arrives when you sit down, along with three kinds of kimchi — cabbage, radish cubes, and shredded radish in a sharp dressing. Order the braised ribs and a separate bowl of rib soup comes with them (fourteen posts say so). The main room has tables and chairs; behind it is a raised room where you leave your shoes at the step. The lavatory is not in the restaurant but out in the building. The posts we read run from February 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 성수일로 77, 지상1층 110호 (성수동1가, 서울숲IT밸리) 77 Seongsuil-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-6968-0888 |
| Typical spend | ₩1,500 – ₩82,000 |
| Floor area | 227 m² |
| Status | In business |
15 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Daily | 11:00–21:30 20 of 20 posts last seen 2026-07 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | Daily | 없음 2 of 2 posts last seen 2025-10 |
| Last order | Daily | 20:45 11 of 11 posts last seen 2026-07 |
| Closed | 없음 14 of 14 posts last seen 2026-05 |
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
- Behind the main room there is a raised floor where you take your shoes off at the step. Ten posts mention it, three of them setting it against the chairs-and-tables part at the front. One writer, who had not booked, was seated back there; another thought the separation made it right for a party. One noticed families with babies using it. It means a step and shoes off, so if that is awkward, ask for the front room. One post only says there seemed to be such a section, having not looked.
- The lavatory is not in the restaurant; it belongs to the building. Three writers saw it for themselves, the most useful of them warning that it is a fair walk out to the lobby; the other two give only a word — the building's, outside. Two more say the same thing without having looked: one repeats it as something heard, one lists it among the facilities. We have not counted those. Not one says whether men's and women's are separate, or whether there is an accessible one.
- Some waited and some walked in. Six describe a full room: filling up on the dot of noon on a weekday; a five-minute wait; already full at a late lunch; a queue outside at night; a long line forming by the time one writer paid and left; and one who did an opening-time run because she knew what lunch is like. Four report no wait at all: nothing on a Sunday lunchtime, straight in at three on a Saturday, no queue to speak of, and a room big enough that you rarely stand. It does not divide neatly by hour — one writer found a Sunday lunch quiet and another found a weekend queue. Five explain the system: you write your name on a list by the door. One mentions chairs outside for waiting.
- The posts split on price, and they split cleanly. All six who call it dear are talking about the price of one bowl: twelve thousand won for cold noodles is not cheap; sixteen for the rib soup at lunch was enough to send one writer back to the noodles; prices have climbed over the years. All five who call it good value are talking about the extras and the size of the braised ribs: six thousand won for three dumplings, seven for a bowl of extra noodles, fifteen hundred for rice, and two who say the ribs give you more than you pay for. The bowl is expensive; what you add to it is not. The noodles went up by a thousand won in 2026 — the menu has the detail.
- Twenty-one posts call the room big — the most repeated observation about this place. They agree on what made them say it: the number of tables (six), the space between them (three), a high ceiling (one), and that a work dinner or a family party would fit (ten). Nobody counts the seats. Two mention banquettes along the wall, one an open kitchen you can watch, one a separate room. Big and busy are not alternatives here — six of the posts that call it roomy also record it full.
- Nine posts are about the staff, and they say what the staff did. Tongs and scissors come with the ribs, several note; one writer had the owner come over and show him how to get the bone out. Another, there at a quiet hour, was given the meat trimmed for her and told not to leave without the fried rice. One was handed an apron without asking; one, there with three small children, says they were looked after; one was given the extra noodles that officially only come with a broth bowl, because the children were with her. Nobody reports being treated badly.
- How many the small braised ribs feed is genuinely disputed. One says two eat well and a third would go short; one says two men found it just right; one says two grown men found it too little. Two counted the bones: eight in the small, nine in the medium. Elsewhere the large portions are the rib soup (one writer, with dumplings on top of it, thought he would burst), the extra noodles (as much as a full bowl), and one who took the leftover ribs home. These posts will not settle whether the small does for two — though three advise leaving room for the fried rice at the end.
- This is one of several branches. Five posts say so: a regular from before it became a chain; one who supposes the branches must all taste the same; two who had been to other branches; one who recognised the name. One of them writes that the branches differ a little and that the original is still the best. One review of a different branch altogether — the one in Insadong — had found its way into the posts we gathered, and we took it out. If you go looking at reviews yourself, check which branch you are reading.
- Fifteen posts say it is close to a station, and no two agree how close. From exit 4 at Ttukseom they variously give under two minutes, two, three, three or four, five, and under ten; three give a distance instead — 214 metres twice, 200 metres once. Others come from Seongsu: seven minutes from exit 1, near exit 4, about five minutes from either station, ten minutes from both. One writer says Ttukseom is nearer but not by much — she had arranged to meet a friend at exit 4 and they had each gone to a different station. Two give walking directions: head from Ttukseom towards Seongsu and it is on the left at the Woori Bank crossing.
- Ten posts mention that the place has been on television, and the same two programmes keep coming up: a long-running family show, four times, and a celebrity talk show, four. Only one writer reports seeing any trace of it in the restaurant — a notice by the door saying that a well-known comedian's twin sons ate the braised ribs here. The rest knew before they went. We have not checked any of it; we count only that ten people wrote it down.
- There is a coffee machine by the door on the way out. Six posts mention it and describe it slightly differently — a machine for the sweet instant kind, one with both instant and brewed, one with sweet milk coffee and americano. None gives a price, and all six treat it as the thing you have on your way out.
- Four posts say the dumplings are made by hand on the premises. Two report it as something they were told; two worked it out from eating them — no shop-bought dumpling is filled like that, says one. We have not verified it. Of the nine who ordered them, none was disappointed.
- Three posts say there are high chairs. One of them came with three small children — two nephews and a baby — and used the chairs and the children's tableware herself. The same post notes that the chilli can be left out of the braised ribs; another advises asking for it mild if children are coming. Nobody says anything about a baby-changing table.
What 27 bloggers said
We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (21) and “Clean and spacious” (12).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Expensive | yes 6 · no 5 |
|---|---|
| Had to wait | yes 6 · no 4 |
Things you can check on site
| Reachable by transit | 15 of 27 posts |
|---|---|
| Shoes off at the door | 10 of 27 posts |
| Ground floor | 6 of 27 posts |
| Coffee served | 6 of 27 posts |
| Independent, not a chain | 5 of 27 posts — saying it is not |
| Waiting area | 5 of 27 posts |
| Prepped daily | 4 of 27 posts |
| High chairs | 3 of 27 posts |
| Toilet outside | 3 of 27 posts |
| Takes reservations | 2 of 27 posts |
| Takeout | 2 of 27 posts |
| Beer served | 2 of 27 posts |
| Lift to the floor | 1 of 27 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 27 posts |
| Signed celebrity photos | 1 of 27 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 27 posts |
| Free refills | 1 of 27 posts |
| Bag storage | 1 of 27 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 can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 2 of 27 posts |
|---|
Many posts say there is parking; two writers actually parked. One went down to the car park under the building, came back up and walked out of the building to get in, and notes a sign by the lift pointing the way; the other drove, found it easy, and says you ask for the ticket to be validated when you pay. The other nine are information lines — a car icon and the word parking, or "basement of the building" — copied from the listing rather than seen. Even those lines disagree about how long is free: an hour on weekdays and two at weekends (twice), two hours, an hour on weekdays, and the rest simply free. Neither of the two who parked gives a time at all, and nobody says how many cars fit.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 3 of 27 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 of 27 posts |
| Came with children | 2 of 27 posts |
| Came by car | 2 of 27 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 27 posts |
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
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 6 |
|---|---|
| Lift to the floor | 1 of 27 posts |
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 3 |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. No step, no ramp, no door width — nothing, across twenty-seven posts. What we do know is that the restaurant is on the ground floor — unit 110, as the address itself says, that there is a lift up from the car park (one), and that the raised room at the back has a step you take your shoes off at (ten). The lavatory is out in the building, and nobody describes the way to it. Ring and ask if it matters.
No one mentioned: In a basement · 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 themselves7 of 27 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way20 of 27 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 29 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 9 |
| 2025-04 | 3 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 3 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. We read to the end of each, hashtags included; none of the usual words — press trip, agency, fee, provided — appears anywhere in the twenty-nine. Seven state that they paid their own way. The other twenty say nothing. Nobody records being given anything free: two use the word complimentary, and both mean the bowl of rib broth that comes with the braised ribs for everyone. Silence is not proof either way.
- Three of the thirty posts we read could not be used as evidence about this place. One is a review of a different branch, in Insadong; it had been swept in because it ends with a list of every branch address, this one among them, and we removed it. The other two only ever ordered delivery, so they are out of the count — they cannot tell you about the room, the lavatory or the queue. They do carry things nothing else does: that delivery reaches as far as Konkuk University, that the packing does not leak, and that the braised ribs can be ordered mild, medium or with the chilli on the side. That leaves twenty-seven posts by twenty-seven people — no blogger wrote twice.
- Whether you can book is not clear. Several posts say you can, but almost always as a line in the information block at the top — booking, takeaway, parking, groups, each with its little icon, in the shape of the listing rather than of anything seen. Not one writer describes actually booking. Two things come close: one who says that because they had not booked they were put in the back room, and one who thought that room would suit a party that had. If you are coming in numbers, ring.
- Twenty posts give the same hours and one does not. Eleven in the morning to half past nine at night, every day; eleven of the twenty add that last orders are at a quarter to nine. The odd one out opens at half past eleven and closes at the same time, which looks like a slip. Thirteen say it never closes — not even at the two big holidays, and one of them saw the notice to that effect on the outside wall. Two note there is no afternoon break. Twelve give the same phone number — though it is the forwarding number the listing shows, which need not be the restaurant's own. All twenty-one of these come from the shop's own information, copied over; nobody writes about arriving to find the door shut or open.
- On who eats here, the posts overlap. Five say the weekday lunch trade is people from the offices nearby; three say the weekends are families. Two remark that the customers skew older — one treats a room full of middle-aged diners as a good sign. Two mention foreign visitors: one was struck by how many there were, and by what it said about how Seongsu is being travelled. Nobody says whether there is an English menu, or how ordering goes if you have no Korean.
Sources (27)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 404 candidate posts we opened 87 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.