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

Gokseong

Name: Gokseong
Address: 서울특별시 성동구 성덕정3길 5-1, 1층 (성수동1가), 성동구, 서울특별시, KR
Telephone: 070-4154-3242

곡성 Two syllables, gok-seong. They are also a county in the south-west and the title of a 2016 horror film, and customers arrive expecting something sinister; one writer asked, and was told the bar had the name before the film did. What the owner means by it, nobody records. The shop writes itself goksung on Instagram, and most customers say Seongsu Gokseong to distinguish it from the county.

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

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

Gokseong is a wine bar on the ground floor of a red-brick house, down a lane towards the Trimage towers, seven to ten minutes' walk from exit 2 at Seoul Forest. A florist runs it, and it is also a flower shop — there are fresh stems in a cooler by the door and neighbours come in to buy bouquets. Order a bottle of wine and it arrives in an ice basket packed with flowers; when you leave, those flowers are tied into a bouquet and given to you. All twenty-six posts we read say so. The kitchen's most-ordered dishes are a chilled octopus pasta made with buckwheat noodles and a plate of plainly fried aubergine; pastas, rice bowls, curry, poke and salads sit mostly under twenty thousand won. There are only four or five tables, so book. The toilet is inside. The posts we read run from 1 August 2025 to 5 April 2026.

The basics

Address	서울특별시 성동구 성덕정3길 5-1, 1층 (성수동1가) 5-1 Seongdeokjeong 3-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
Phone	070-4154-3242
Typical spend	₩8,000 – ₩49,000
Floor area	51 m²
Status	In business

9 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Open	Daily	11:00–23:00 20 of 21 posts last seen 2026-04
Break	Weekdays	14:30–17:00 12 of 16 posts last seen 2026-04
Break	Weekends	없음 4 of 16 posts last seen 2026-04
Break		14:30–17:00 2 of 16 posts last seen 2026-04
Last order	Daily	22:30 9 of 10 posts last seen 2026-03

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

Order wine and you leave with flowers. All twenty-six posts say so — the most repeated fact about this place, mentioned more often than any dish or any bottle. The wine comes out in an ice basket filled with fresh stems, and on your way out those stems are tied into a bouquet for you. Two writers say the flowers are chosen to match the colour of the wine; one had extra stems added that had not been in the basket. It costs four thousand won, if you read one post's figures: the same bottle is ₩45,000 on its own and ₩49,000 in the basket, with no wrapping charge. Ask before you go — the posts describe mentioning it five minutes ahead, or simply at the end of the meal. One writer got flowers after a daytime brunch with no wine at all; another says following the shop on Naver earns a small bouquet too. What people did with them is recorded as well: handed to a friend who was getting married, put in a vase at home, and — in one case — waved at a boyfriend who had never given her any.
Fourteen posts say the actor Song Joong-ki learned flower arranging here. He plays a florist in a recent drama and, the story goes, took private classes from the owner; three name the drama. Twelve of the fourteen are repeating what they heard — he is said to have, apparently he did, this is the place he came to — and one writer says plainly that she read it in someone else's review before going. Two describe something they saw: photographs of the owner with him on the wall, which one of them puzzled over before asking. So the count above is two — the number of people who report the photographs themselves. That fourteen write nearly the same sentence is a fact about how this place became known, not about what anyone looked at. One post also calls it a filming location; nobody reports seeing that either. Two posts give the owner's own background, the Peninsula hotel in London, and one went and looked the hotel up.
It is small. Ten posts count the tables — four or five, or more precisely one four-top and two two-tops. One describes a round table for six or eight at the back; another mentions private hire for up to twenty-five, which reads as copied from the shop's own notice. Not one writer complains about the size. Several present it as the point: six note how far apart the tables are, and three say a small room is a private one. It does fill up, though — one writer watched it go full with booked tables and calls a reservation essential; another, who had booked, found her table already laid at the appointed hour and walked straight in.
Thirteen posts call it quiet — but they mean quiet compared with the rest of Seongsu. Five say outright that they came to get away from the crowds on the main streets, the pop-ups and the queues. The location does the work: a back lane rather than a thoroughfare, a little off the centre. Eight describe the occasion that brought them — a first date, an anniversary, a birthday, a wedding anniversary — and they are largely the same posts that use the word quiet. Two mention the music, both to say it was unobtrusive.
It runs as two different places, and the daytime one changed. An August 2025 post has it as a café and brunch room by day and a wine bar at night, and the writer ate a sandwich and a poke bowl there at lunchtime. A November post says the same. A December one does not: she asked, and was told brunch had been dropped — the owner needs the daylight hours for the flowers. Three later posts still list coffee, tea, ades and desserts; one mentions a separate lunch menu. Nobody we read has been in daylight since, so what the kitchen does at midday now, we cannot say. Several note an afternoon break on weekdays, half past two to five, with none at weekends.
The toilet is inside, and all three writers who mention it count that in the shop's favour — one of them says she always checks. Two report flowers in there too, one taking it as proof the owner means it. Whether it is split by sex, nobody says.
You walk from Seoul Forest station. Nine posts describe getting here and five of them name exit 2 on the Suin-Bundang line. The distance varies with the teller — five to ten minutes on foot, seven, eight (twice), ten (twice), and one post gives 620 metres. Two say you can also walk it from Ttukseom or Seongsu on line 2, one adding that Seoul Forest is a little nearer. One further post gives only the 620 metres and nothing about the walk; that line is copied from the shop's listing, so we have not counted it. It is easy to walk past. Three writers say so — the sign does not catch the eye, keep looking to your right as you go; it is mounted high up, so you may find yourself wondering where the door is; the front is quiet, with no big sign, and you doubt you have the right place. There is one marker instead: four writers say that when you see a lot of flowers on the street, that is it — the shop that looks like a florist's is the wine bar. Five describe a red-brick house.
The owner does it all — chooses and arranges the flowers, seats you, explains the menu, and by one account cooks as well, alongside someone the writer took to be his wife. Nine posts call the service warm, and what they describe overlaps: two bottles brought over and explained (six posts), a taste poured from each before choosing (one), a basket dressed up on hearing it was a birthday (one), a bouquet tied with care (four). Two mention being recommended a wine without feeling pushed. Nobody reports being treated badly.

What 26 bloggers said

We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Quiet” (13) and “Cramped” (10).

What they liked

Quiet13 of 26 posts

Friendly staff9 of 26 posts

Not expensive6 of 26 posts

Clean1 of 26 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped10 of 26 posts

Things you can check on site

Flowers to take home	26 of 26 posts
Seasonal decorations	11 of 26 posts
Reachable by transit	9 of 26 posts
Cafe on site	6 of 26 posts
Takes reservations	4 of 26 posts
Toilet inside	3 of 26 posts
Signed celebrity photos	2 of 26 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

플라워 와인 바스켓24 ate it
flower wine basket₩45,000 · ₩49,000
**This is what people come for.** Order a bottle and it arrives in an ice basket **packed with fresh flowers**; when you leave, those flowers are tied into a bouquet **and handed to you.** All twenty-six posts record it. Two say the flowers are picked to match the colour of the wine; two that the owner is a florist who worked at the Peninsula in London
**₩49,000.** One post lets you work out the arithmetic: the same bottle costs ₩45,000 on its own, so **the flowers are ₩4,000** — against the twenty thousand or so one writer reckons a florist would charge. Another notes there is no wrapping fee. **Say something before you leave**: the posts describe telling the staff five minutes ahead, or at the end of the meal. One writer mentioned it was a birthday and got a more elaborate basket; one had extra stems added to the bouquet that had not been in the basket. One got flowers without ordering wine at all, after brunch. One says following the shop on Naver also earns a small bouquet
와인24 ate it
wine₩8,000 · ₩45,000 · ₩49,000
**The owner brings two bottles and lets you choose** — six posts describe it, usually a rosé against a white or an orange. Two are named: an Australian rosé, Wine Men of Gotham 2019, in five posts, and a Romanian orange natural wine in one. One post prices a glass at ₩8,000
**The same rosé reads differently to different people** — two find it slightly astringent, two call it balanced, two notice a sweetness at the end. One was poured a taste of each bottle before choosing. **You may bring your own**: four posts say so for a fee, but only one gives the terms (₩30,000 a bottle, ₩20,000 from the second). All four look copied from the shop's notice, and nobody describes actually carrying a bottle in
문어 콜드 파스타13 ate it
munео cold pasta — chilled octopus pasta₩18,000
**Five posts call it the signature, and all thirteen who ordered it liked it.** Not wheat pasta but **buckwheat noodles**, dressed cold in perilla-leaf pesto and perilla oil, with poached octopus on top and rocket alongside. **Four writers, independently, reach for the same comparison** — makguksu, the cold buckwheat noodles Koreans eat with perilla oil
Two mention yuzu in it, one a lemon sharpness. One expected buckwheat to break up and found it springy instead. **Two like that a cold dish keeps pace with a bottle of wine**, and two recommend alternating it with something warm. One wanted a second bowl
가지 프라이 (가지튀김)8 ate it
fried aubergine₩16,000
**Aubergine cut long, fried plain, dipped in a mayonnaise sauce.** All eight who ordered it were won over, and **two of them say they do not eat aubergine** — one of them with her husband, both converted in a single plate. One ordered it on the owner's recommendation
**There is a lot of it** — one writer calls it a heap, another says it does not go down however much you eat. One went early enough to get the first frying of the day in fresh oil; one refilled the dipping sauce; one thought it ate like chips. There is also a **fried mushroom** plate with truffle oil and cheese, which one person ordered
샐러드와 까나페 (앤다이브·연어·부라타·브리)6 ate it
salads and canapés₩14,000 · ₩15,000 · ₩18,000
The light things to drink with. Named across the posts: an **egg-mayonnaise endive canapé at ₩14,000** (jalapeño for a low heat, nuts for crunch), an **endive salad** with cheese crumble, olives and crushed peanut, a **smoked-salmon salad**, a **burrata salad at ₩18,000**, and a **brie plate at ₩15,000** with honey and walnuts
One writer had never eaten endive before and liked how easily it went down. Two single out the olives. **Prices are patchy** — nobody gives one for the salmon or the endive salad
라구 파스타6 ate it
ragù pasta₩20,000
**Not a tomato ragù** — one writer expected red and got something paler; another found it looser than the ragùs she knows. Six ordered it and six liked it
Writers disagree on how thick the sauce is — one calls it properly dense, another notably not. Two praise the bite of the pasta, one the seasoning. At ₩20,000 it is the dearest pasta here
곡성 2025 커리3 ate it
Gokseong 2025 curry₩16,900
**A Japanese-style curry with tofu and beef.** Creamy and entirely unaggressive, by one account; homely rather than restaurant-ish, by another. Three people ordered it
**The tofu divides them**: one writer, braced for something bland, calls it the making of the dish; the other two do not single it out. One recommends alternating it with the cold pasta. **Nobody explains the 2025 in the name** — whether it changes with the year, we do not know
더블 쉬림프 파스타3 ate it
double shrimp pasta₩19,000
A cream pasta with prawns — generously, by one account. One found it satisfyingly thick
**They differ on the sauce**: one writer, who prefers hers loose, found it on the thick side and cleared the plate anyway. One ordered it as a late addition, still hungry
문어 세비체3 ate it
octopus ceviche₩17,900
Cooked octopus under a yuzu dressing, with lettuce, rocket and green olives. One post repeats a claim about the olive oil being one of the world's five best, without saying where the claim comes from
All three call it sharp and fresh, and two recommend it as a light thing to drink with. Nobody compares it with the cold pasta, which uses the same octopus
화이트 라구 덮밥3 ate it
white ragù over rice₩16,900
Beef and pork in cream over rice. One writer likens it to risotto; another's husband made it the dish of the evening
**There is barley or something like it in the rice** — one writer singles out the pop of it. One expected cream to be heavy and says it is not; one tells you to eat it with the olives that come alongside
낮 메뉴 (브런치·카페·샌드위치)2 ate it
daytime menu₩15,000
**An evening wine bar that runs differently by day** — three posts mention coffee, tea, ades and desserts, one a separate lunch menu. Two people we read came in daylight, and one of them had a **₩15,000 sandwich of tteokgalbi**, the grilled minced-beef patty, with rocket, lettuce and jalapeño
**The brunch service appears to have stopped.** An August 2025 post has it as a café and brunch room by day; so does one from November. **But a December visitor asked and was told they had given brunch up** — the owner needs the daylight hours for the flowers, she was told. No later post visits in daylight, so we cannot say what happens now. The August writer was also told the potatoes had run out
곡성 포케2 ate it
Gokseong poke₩16,900
A poke bowl on mixed grains. **You pick the protein** — one writer lists a choice of tofu-and-beef, smoked duck or smoked salmon; another describes duck, egg, beans, tofu, beef and salmon all in the same bowl. **The two accounts do not agree**, so either the bowl changed or one of them misread it
**Both remark on the size** — one had never seen a poke this big for the money, and two people could not finish it. One ate it at lunch, one with wine in the evening and found the pairing better than expected

Parking

1 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.

Posts saying you cannot	1 of 26 posts

There is no car park. A dozen posts carry the same line in their header: none here, use the public ones. Exactly one writer describes actually parking — in the municipal lot on the next street, then walking past a primary school to the door — and she thought it important enough to check in at the car park separately and say so. Even she does not say what it cost or whether there was space. Two more name other public car parks without having used them. One post repeats a claim that booking gets your parking subsidised, and immediately advises ringing to check. Two writers point out that this is a wine bar and you probably should not drive.

Who came, and with whom

Date	13 of 26 posts
Group visit	2 of 26 posts
Came by car	1 of 26 posts
Came with children	1 of 26 posts
Family visit	1 of 26 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

Toilet inside	3 of 26 posts

No post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. None mentions a step, a threshold or a ramp. All we know for certain is that it is on the ground floor, in a converted house, which five describe. Three place the toilet inside, but none describes it. One writer came with a baby and her mother, and says only that she had worried about the gaps between tables and found them generous — nothing about a high chair, and nothing about where the pushchair went.

No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 disclosing payment4 of 26 posts
Posts saying nothing either way22 of 26 posts

When the posts appeared

081112020304

Month by month

Month	Posts
2025-08	2
2025-11	1
2025-12	13
2026-02	6
2026-03	2
2026-04	2

What we do not know

Half the posts come from a single December. Thirteen of the twenty-six are from December 2025, and twelve of those went up inside eight days at the start of the month. Five more appeared on one day in February. Four posts declare a sponsorship or a review campaign — one says so in its opening line, one in the body, two through a hashtag on a video card at the foot of the page. We have not counted the others as paid. But twelve posts in eight days, and five in one day, are facts in themselves and we record them. Nobody states that they paid their own way. The clustering also skews what we can see: eleven posts describe a Christmas tree, not because there is always one but because half of what we read was written in December. Only two posts come from the summer.
Four of the thirty posts we collected were not about this place, and we removed them. The two syllables of the name are attached to a great many things: a strawberry from Gokseong county, used by an unrelated café across town; a film by Na Hong-jin, mentioned twice in somebody's monthly diary; a car-locksmith advertisement carrying every county in the province as a hashtag (and admitting at the bottom to being AI-generated); and a family holiday through three towns in Jeolla. The film trips customers up too. One writer arrived expecting something sinister and asked about it: the shop, she was told, had the name before the film did. We could not verify that, and it appears in that one post only.
Nobody calls it expensive and six call it cheap — cheap for Seongsu, one says, where the prices have gone mad. The figures across the posts: pasta ₩18,000–20,000, rice bowls, curry and poke at ₩16,900, small plates ₩14,000–18,000, the wine basket ₩49,000, a glass of wine ₩8,000. An August 2025 post and an April 2026 post give the same prices — no sign of a rise across the eight months we read. The wine list is thinner ground: only two posts price a bottle, and one says the range starts below fifty thousand and runs up into natural wines. What anything other than the basket costs, we mostly cannot say.
A dog lives here — a three-year-old brown poodle, named for brown candyfloss, who by both accounts likes people and met one writer at the door. No customer we read brought an animal of their own: five posts list the shop as dog-friendly, but all five are copying a notice. Worth knowing if dogs or dander are a problem for you. One writer records a different discomfort: visiting in daylight in August, with the door propped open, she was bothered by flies, which she put down to the door or the flowers. Hers is the only post of the twenty-six to raise hygiene at all — and another, braced for pollen, reports a room so clean she never sneezed.
Nobody looked at the entrance and wrote down what they saw. The address ends in "ground floor", but that string comes from the check-in widget and is identical in all twenty-six posts; whether there is a step up, or a lip at the door, none of them says. Five describe a converted detached house and five a red-brick front, but they are describing the photograph, not the way in. Whether there is an upstairs or a basement, and how much of the building the bar uses, nobody records. Three note only that it sits a little way into a lane off the main street.

Sources (26)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 347 candidate posts we opened 111 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.