Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Goose Cage
구스케이지 Guseukeiji A cage for geese — the sign and the Instagram handle both spell it Goose Cage, and a goose is drawn on the door.
Western · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Updated · Published
Goose Cage is a bar on the first floor up, in a lane off Seoul Forest. Wine, whisky, cocktails and draught beer, and nothing that amounts to a meal — the food is nachos, quesadillas, beef rolls, things you eat with your fingers. You climb stairs to reach it, and climb again to reach the roof. Inside is small: a counter, a few tables, a seat by the piano, a sofa. It opens at three on some days, which makes afternoon drinking possible. The posts we read run from October 2021 to September 2026, and across those five years the place has barely changed shape.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 서울숲2길 19-13, 2층 (성수동1가) 19-13 Seoulsup 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1368-4883 |
| Typical spend | ₩9,000 – ₩75,000 |
| Floor area | 58 m² |
| Status | In business |
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekdays | 17:00–01:00 6 of 7 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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| Open | Weekends | 15:00–24:00 5 of 7 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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
- The roof is the reason people come. Sixteen of the thirty-three describe it, and they describe the same things: camping chairs and string lights (five), only three or four tables (four), you order by walkie-talkie (three), and once it is dark a film is projected onto a screen (five). One writer points out that the walkie-talkie broadcasts your order to every other table up there. Just as many were kept off it — by rain (two), by heat (two), by cold, the chairs not yet put out (two), by April being too early (one), and by one who decided it was too much trouble to keep going down for refills. The roof closes at ten — two say so, and one describes the owner coming up at ten to fetch them down. Because the neighbours are houses, one writer notes, no music is played up there.
- It is up a flight, and the flight is steep. Eighteen posts place it on the first floor up. Three write about the stairs and none of them are casual about it — one calls them frightening, one says there are a great many, and one calls the further flight to the roof a stairway to hell. Two say to look for the A-board at street level; two nearly walked past because the sign is small. Not one post says whether there is a lift. One writer came here because a friend with her had trouble walking and they wanted somewhere close — and she does not say how they got up the stairs.
- Almost everyone arrives having eaten somewhere else. Twenty-five came with company, and thirteen name the restaurant they came from — a Mexican place, a wine bar, a galbi house, a Thai kitchen, a katsu shop, a pizza place, a soufflé café, a speakeasy, a burger, a theatre show. Nine did not plan to come at all: they wandered in, they were passing, they were looking for somewhere and this was the third door they tried after two others turned them away. Nobody records coming alone — though one writer, looking at the counter, wished she could. Four came as a three, one as a five, and one calls it a date.
- Seventeen posts are about the person behind the bar, and they overlap on specifics: choosing a drink for you (seven), explaining that the list runs mild to strong (two), volunteering that anything off-menu can be made (four), topping up a water glass, fetching a blanket, bringing side plates, sending out more nachos for nothing. One writer thinks a woman runs it single-handed; two describe an owner and staff together. Nobody writes badly of the service, but one writer wanted more of it — friendly, she says, yet nobody explained the cocktails and the menu is in English.
- Nine posts call it quiet, and they call it quiet for the same reason: four came here because somewhere else in Seongsu was too loud. One had tried the record bar that comes up first in every search and walked out again; another simply says this is not the shouting kind of place. One notes how far apart the tables are; two say each corner has its own feel and the conversation stays at your own table. On the music, one writer is happy: old pop, played through speakers worth having. But one writer found that once the room filled, an empty glass felt like a cue — she drank up and left.
- The toilet is inside, and six posts mention it — four of them because of what is set out by the basin: hand wash and hand cream, single-use floss and mouthwash, soap. Two call it a thoughtful touch. One says it is pleasant; one says the cleanliness is no better than ordinary. Whether it is shared or separate appears in a single post, and that line is copied from a listing rather than seen, so we have not counted it.
What 33 bloggers said
We read all 33 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (17) and “Cramped” (10).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 5 · no 4 |
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Things you can check on site
| Second floor | 18 of 33 posts |
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| Rooftop seating | 13 of 33 posts |
| Toilet inside | 6 of 33 posts |
| Large windows | 5 of 33 posts |
| TV | 5 of 33 posts |
| Seats to sit and eat | 4 of 33 posts |
| Beer served | 4 of 33 posts |
| Hand-wash sink in the dining area | 4 of 33 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 3 of 33 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 33 posts |
| Takes reservations | 1 of 33 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 1 of 33 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 1 of 33 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
1 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 33 posts |
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Almost nobody writes about parking. One post says only that there is no car park out front and public transport is easier. A 2026 post lists two municipal car parks with hourly rates, but that writer did not drive and the passage looks copied, so we have not counted it. One writer did drive: she parked at Seoul Forest, walked over after a stroll — and notes that since both of them had cars, neither could drink. That is obvious enough, except that drink is all this place sells.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 25 of 33 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 1 of 33 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 33 posts |
Getting there
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for the address instead.
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 | 18 of 33 posts |
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| Toilet inside | 6 of 33 posts |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Eighteen place it a floor up, three describe the stairs as hard going, and several note a second flight to the roof. But whether there is a lift, whether there is a step at the door, how many stairs there are — none of the thirty-three says. That is not a no; it is nobody having written it down. On the seating: one writer found the camping chairs on the roof uncomfortable, and one found the indoor tables too low to eat from comfortably. And since the roof closes at ten, an evening up there means the stairs twice.
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 themselves8 of 33 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way25 of 33 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 35 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 |
|---|---|
| 2021-10 | 1 |
| 2021-12 | 1 |
| 2022-01 | 1 |
| 2022-05 | 1 |
| 2022-10 | 1 |
| 2022-11 | 2 |
| 2023-04 | 1 |
| 2023-05 | 1 |
| 2023-06 | 1 |
| 2023-07 | 1 |
| 2023-09 | 2 |
| 2023-10 | 2 |
| 2024-01 | 1 |
| 2024-02 | 1 |
| 2024-03 | 1 |
| 2024-05 | 3 |
| 2024-08 | 1 |
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 2 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- They do not agree about the money. Three say it is dear: not cheap by any measure; dear for what you get even by Seongsu standards; and one writer, who had just eaten a ₩13,500 lasagne, looking at the drinks list and wondering aloud whether she was paying for the seat. One says the opposite — she remembers it being kind. One writer names the mechanism: past three drinks a head, the drinks cost more than the evening was meant to. Another records two women drinking ₩180,000 of it with nothing to eat. Cocktails run ₩15,000 to ₩21,000 and most of the food is ₩18,000, so two people with two drinks each and one plate comes to roughly ₩70,000–90,000 — that is our arithmetic from the prices in the posts, not a figure anybody wrote.
- Nobody queues here, but the room fills. Not one post records waiting to get in. Five watched it fill around them — full within half an hour of a seven o'clock weekday arrival; first customers at seven on a Saturday and full soon after; full on arrival; filling fast. One went up to the roof because there was nowhere downstairs; another, one of three, found only a two-top and a large table left and did the same. Six found it empty, and they are specific about when: nine on a Monday, a Saturday of heavy rain, three or four in the afternoon, early. Only two posts discuss booking — one recommends it because there are so few seats; the other carries a booking line in its copied information block, which we have not counted.
- The posts disagree about whether anything comes free with the drink. Two say nothing does, one of them missing the pretzels she expects in a wine bar. But one writer reports that after a run of cocktails, nachos and banana chips simply appeared, and another that the owner offered her a second plate of nachos and did not charge for it. A third mentions something she calls the house nibble arriving on a retro plate, without making clear what it was. It seems to depend on the night, and we could not settle it. Going the other way: one writer was told outright that she need not order food at all, and two drank without ordering any.
- How long the walk takes depends on who is walking. From exit 8 at Ttukseom: seven or eight minutes by one account, ten by another, 515 metres by two more, and one that says only that there is a fair bit of walking. From Seoul Forest station: eight minutes from exit 5, or twelve. You turn off the main street into a lane — one writer nearly walked past, one notes it sits just off the busy stretch, one says a friend spotted it down a quiet turning. Four came straight from a walk in Seoul Forest.
- The hours have changed more than once. Sorted by date they are not a disagreement but a sequence: October 2021 gives two in the afternoon to ten at night; January 2022 three to nine; eight posts from May 2022 to October 2023 give three in the afternoon to midnight, every day; February 2024 gives five to midnight; two posts in May 2024 split the week, Sunday to Thursday till midnight and Friday and Saturday till one; and five posts from September 2024 to September 2026 give five in the afternoon to one on weekdays and three to midnight at weekends. The figures above count only that last arrangement. Two posts inside it still disagree — one puts Friday with the weekend, one says three to one every day. The weekday opening looks like it slipped from three to five, but nobody watched the door open: every one of these numbers is copied from a listing. Only one post gives last orders as a time (00:30 on weekdays, 23:30 at weekends); another says simply half an hour before closing. Two say there is no regular closing day. The roof closes at ten, which is a different thing from the hours above and is not counted in them.
- One writer brought a dog. She records that the bar keeps a water bowl and filled it for him, and that he slept through the evening. That was April 2023. A 2026 post also says dogs are welcome, but that line sits in its copied information block and the writer had no dog with her. The other thirty-one posts say nothing about animals at all. The same copied block says the whole place is adults-only — again, one copied line, and not a single post describes bringing a child or being turned away with one. Three years separate the two mentions; ring and ask if it matters.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. We read each to the end, hashtags included, and found no disclosure. Eight writers state that they paid. Two others use the phrase, but about a different restaurant each time, so we have not counted those here. Two record getting something free, and in both cases it is the owner sending out more nachos — hospitality, not a sponsorship. Two posts we did not count as visits: one is assembled from a listing's review-keyword tallies and other people's reviews, with no sign its author ever went; the other is a month of diary in which Goose Cage gets one clause about a piña colada. One more we removed entirely — a walk around Seongsu in which this bar appears only as a link to the next instalment. That leaves thirty-three, and since no blogger wrote twice, thirty-three posts are thirty-three people.
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Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 251 candidate posts we opened 60 and kept 33 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.