Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Kimsabu Agujjim Wangsimni
김사부아구찜 왕십리점 Monkfish braise that arrives with crab, pork and pho
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Kimsabu Agujjim is a monkfish braise restaurant in the basement of the building directly outside exit 1 at Seoul Forest station. It looks like a Vietnamese restaurant when you walk in — the same kitchen runs a pho shop in the same room, and eight of our ten writers thought they had come to the wrong place. Order the monkfish and salted crab, boiled pork and a bowl of pho come with it, an arrangement the restaurant calls an "agujjim omakase". The house version is salmani, deboned and meaty, and the chilli runs to five levels. It opens at ten in the morning and closes at nine. We read ten posts, from July to December 2025.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 왕십리로 78, 지1층 (성수동1가) 78 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 0507-1467-0973 |
| Typical spend | ₩47,000 |
| Floor area | 60 m² |
| Status | In business |
5 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Daily | 10:00–21:00 5 of 5 posts last seen 2025-09 |
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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
- A monkfish restaurant that looks Vietnamese. Eight writers describe it and four of them open with having thought they were in the wrong place — the sign says agujjim, the room says Hanoi. One watched other customers come in, look around and leave again. The reason is the pho shop sharing the room, noted by six; two mention a separate Vietnamese menu on the wall. Wood, low lamps and vintage fittings, says one, which is not what she expects from a braise house where the usual scenery is soju and a plastic tablecloth.
- It is right outside exit 1 at Seoul Forest, 57 metres according to the one writer who measures it; several spot the sign as they come up the steps. Not everyone finds it, though: the post about the pho side complains that a large Chinese restaurant blocks the view of the entrance, while several of ours say the agujjim sign is impossible to miss. You go down a flight of stairs to get in (five posts). One writer measures it from Wangsimni station instead, five minutes away.
What 9 bloggers said
We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (4) and “Roomy” (2).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Seasonal decorations | 8 of 9 posts |
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| In a basement | 6 of 9 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 5 of 9 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
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 1 of 9 posts |
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| Date | 1 of 9 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
| In a basement | 6 of 9 posts |
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Not one of the ten says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. The words do not appear. What is certain is that it is a basement reached by stairs (five posts) — nobody counts the steps, mentions a rail, or says whether there is another way down. Nobody describes the toilets either: one post carries a "separate men's and women's" line, but it sits inside a copied block of listing facilities and we do not count it. This is "nobody wrote it down", not "you cannot get in".
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 disclosing payment1 of 9 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way8 of 9 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 10 posts we gathered, 1 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 |
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| 2025-07 | 4 |
| 2025-08 | 4 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- The bossam pork is often off. The whole point of the set is that pork, crab and pho come with the monkfish, and three of the ten writers found the pork unavailable — on 24 July, 17 August and 23 August 2025. All three were given a whole squid in the pot instead, and all three say they preferred it. Three times in a month is not a coincidence: ring ahead if the pork is why you are going. The crab arrived for everyone.
- We have only ten posts and nine of them fall inside three months, from 12 July to 5 September 2025, with one more in December. It has the shape of an opening rush, and exactly one post declares a sponsorship (a hashtag on its first line); the other nine say nothing about money either way. The same phrases recur, though: "Korea's first premium agujjim omakase" appears in four posts and "fresh seafood daily" in three, in much the same position. We have not counted any of it. One post gives a price and two the chilli levels, so what is here is what ten people wrote down — and with nothing from 2026, we cannot say the set is still the same.
- Nobody reports waiting. The words queue, wait and reservation appear nowhere in the ten posts, and no one says they booked. Nor does anyone report a full room: one writer thought it roomy enough for a work dinner, another found the tables far enough apart to talk quietly. Bear in mind that nine of our ten posts fall in the three months after opening — quiet then is not quiet now. It opens at ten and closes at nine, which leaves room to choose your hour.
- Not one post mentions the toilets. Whether they are in the restaurant, out in the building, or on another floor, we do not know. One post carries a single line listing group bookings, takeaway, delivery, reservations, wi-fi, pets, separate men's and women's toilets and mobile payment — a block copied from the listing, with nothing anywhere to say the writer used them. So we have not counted it. Read it alongside the fact that the room is a basement.
Sources (9)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 김사부아구찜 왕십리점 후기 2025-09-05 · 징이의 일상기록 · via Daum
- 김사부 아구찜 왕십리점 성수에서 특별한 아구찜 오마카세 후기 2025-08-23 · 덩은이의 오늘 뭐하지? · via Daum
- 왕십리 맛집 쌀국수와 함께하는 신기한 아구찜 "김사부아구찜" 2025-08-23 · 쏘이의 이모저모 · via Daum
- 서울숲맛집 김사부아구찜 왕십리점 후기 2025-08-22 · 워니의 햅삐 하루하루 · via Daum
- 서울숲 아구찜 맛집 순살 가득 아구찜 김사부아구찜 왕십리점 2025-08-17 · 몽글몽글 : 나의 하루
- [서울/왕십리맛집]왕십리 김사부 아구찜 방문후기 2025-07-28 · 수동님의 블로그❤️ · via Daum
- [서울숲]🌳 성수 서울숲 맛집 김사부 아구찜 성수 매운 맛집 프리미엄 오마카세 후기 ! 맵기가 5단계씩이나? 2025-07-24 · 떠혬의 떠먹여주는 이야기 · via Daum
- 서울숲맛집 김사부아구찜 왕십리점 프리미엄 오마카세 2025-07-12 · 오늘이라 좋은 하루 · via Daum
- 김사부아구찜 왕십리점에서 살마니 아구찜 먹고왔어요. 2025-07-12 · 원쥬니네 · via Daum
We opened all 166 candidate posts and kept 9 as evidence.