Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Kkokkoseutori Seongsu-jeom
꼬꼬스토리 성수점 Kkokkostory — 'kkokko' is how a chicken sounds in Korean; this is the Seongsu branch of a sweet-and-crispy chicken chain.
Fried chicken · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Kkokkostory Seongsu is a hand-made dakgangjeong shop inside an apartment shopping arcade, five minutes' walk from exit 2 at Ttukseom. The room is very small and almost everyone takes it away — all ten writers carried theirs out. You choose the size first (two cup sizes and three boxes) and then the flavour (sweet, medium, hot, garlic-soy, plain fried). Rice cake and a fried seaweed roll go in the box alongside the chicken. The chicken is Korean, and it is tossed in sauce to order, which takes about five minutes. Our ten posts span three and a half years, from September 2020 to March 2024.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 상원길 59, A동 1층 105호 (성수동1가, 쌍용아파트상가) 59 Sangwon-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0501-470-8912 |
| Floor area | 25 m² |
| Status | In business |
2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Sunday | 11:00–21:00 4 of 8 posts last seen 2024-03 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Daily | 11:00–22:00 4 of 8 posts last seen 2022-12 |
| Open | Mon–Sat | 11:00–22:00 3 of 8 posts last seen 2021-04 |
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
- Everyone takes it away — all ten of them. Three describe how small the room is: tiny inside, not big, small but clean. There is somewhere to sit, just about — two mention a couple of small tables — but both add that most customers, like them, were taking it out. One waited among takeaway customers and delivery riders. Three phoned ahead and collected, and three note delivery is available, one adding that for this distance the fee is not worth it and she would rather walk. You can watch it being made: one writer found the two cooks in full view and trusted the food more for it.
- The prices climbed steadily over four years, and the ten posts lay out the steps. The large cup went ₩3,000 in 2020, ₩3,500 in August 2022, ₩4,000 that December and ₩5,000 by March 2024. The medium box ran ₩7,000 → ₩8,000 → ₩9,000, the large ₩12,000 → ₩13,000 → ₩14,000, the extra-large ₩16,000 → ₩17,000 → ₩18,000. Two posts ten days apart in 2022 differ by one step throughout — the earlier gives the lower set, the later the higher — and we cannot tell whether that was a rise or a mistake. Cheap is the only verdict anyone offers: one calls it easy on the wallet and nobody calls it dear. Read it alongside the fact that not all of the box is chicken.
- This is the sort of shop where the owner remembers you. Four posts call the staff kind, and all four say what was actually done: offering extra seaweed rolls to a customer who did not want the rice cake; holding an umbrella over the box on a rainy day, so that it arrived home dry; putting a lid on a cup for someone eating at home; and throwing in a drink for anyone paying cash — a can with the medium box, a bottle with the larger ones. One writer read the sign, ordered accordingly, and then absent-mindedly paid by card. Several are regulars: one went twice in the same week, on the Friday and the Saturday; one calls collecting an order on the way home from work the point of her evening; two more say they go often because it is on the way.
- You walk from Ttukseom station. One post gives 331 metres from exit 2; six others simply say it is near the station. The name says Seongsu but Ttukseom is nearer — one writer assumed from the walk that it must be the Ttukseom branch. Two came on foot from Seoul Forest, and one rode over on a hire bike from a café where she had been working. The landmark is the arcade itself: block A of the Ssangyong apartment shops, next to a well-known tteokbokki chain in one account and beside the writer's gym in another. This is not a high street but the shops at the foot of a housing block, which is why one writer calls it a place the neighbourhood knows.
What 10 bloggers said
We read all 10 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (4) and “Cramped” (3).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Takeout | 10 of 10 posts |
|---|---|
| Origin labelling posted | 3 of 10 posts |
| Takes reservations | 2 of 10 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 2 of 10 posts |
| Seats to sit and eat | 2 of 10 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 10 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 1 of 10 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 1 of 10 posts |
| Discount offered | 1 of 10 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
| Solo visit | 5 of 10 posts |
|---|---|
| Group visit | 3 of 10 posts |
| Family visit | 2 of 10 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 10 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
We know almost nothing about getting in. The words for wheelchair, pushchair, ramp and threshold never appear in ten posts. What is certain is only that it is unit 105 on the ground floor of an apartment arcade. The shop is small and mostly takeaway, so eating in barely comes up, and nobody mentions a toilet. One thing can trip you up: a writer points out that the arcade has two blocks and that this is block A, and attached the location separately for that reason. Another notes it is closer to Ttukseom station than to Seongsu, despite the name. There is a dog — the 2024 post says dogs are welcome and that the shop has one of its own. Worth knowing if you are wary of dogs or allergic. No customer records bringing one.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · 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 saying they paid themselves2 of 10 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way8 of 10 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2020-09 | 1 |
| 2020-11 | 1 |
| 2020-12 | 1 |
| 2021-03 | 1 |
| 2021-04 | 2 |
| 2022-08 | 1 |
| 2022-09 | 1 |
| 2022-12 | 1 |
| 2024-03 | 1 |
What we do not know
- The denominator here is ten — the smallest we have. But it is unlike the others in a useful way: rather than a cluster of posts from a few weeks, these are spread thinly across three and a half years, from September 2020 to March 2024. So what you get is less a spread of opinion at one moment than a record of how one shop changed — what the prices did, whether Sunday closing held. Nothing was excluded. All ten say what was bought and eaten, and no writer appears twice. Nobody declares a sponsorship; two state they paid their own way and eight say nothing either way. But ten is ten — where one person is the only source, that is one person's afternoon.
- Not all of the box is chicken — and this is the one thing people genuinely disagree about here. Rice cake and a fried seaweed roll come as standard. Eight posts mention them and five are pleased: the sauce soaks nicely into the rice cake, the roll is a change. The dissenting post is also the lowest-rated one — its writer, giving two stars, minded how much of the box was not chicken and threw the seaweed roll away, concluding that a chain must weigh its chicken to a fixed amount. They will swap them: two writers record it, one told that leaving out the rice cake means more rolls, the other that asking for fewer rolls brings more rice cake. What increases either way is the filler, not the chicken. Say so when you order if you do not want them — but the box will not be chicken instead.
- The board's heat guide and what people report do not quite line up. The menu assigns each flavour an audience: sweet for primary-school children, medium for teenagers and the heat-shy, hot but milder than a famous instant noodle, garlic-soy for salt-and-sweet, plain for under-fives. The medium divides them: one writer found it sharp at first and then merely warm, fine for someone who cannot take heat; another tasted no heat at all and found it cloyingly sweet. The hot is likewise too much for children in one account and exactly right in another. If you are ordering for a child, drop a level below what the board suggests — the writer who took the sweet, the one the board calls a children's flavour, reports no heat whatsoever.
- Not one visitor writes a line about the floor — the phrase "ground floor" appears zero times in the ten posts. Eight give an address, and all eight stop at "Ssangyong apartment arcade, block A, unit 105". That this is the ground floor comes from our own record — the licence address reads "block A, ground floor, unit 105" — not from anyone who went. We counted the words. Across the ten: "stairs" zero, "basement" zero, "second floor" zero, "lift" zero. The Korean word for a threshold does appear twice, but both times it means a jaw — a writer explaining that hard batter elsewhere hurt her jaw, and this shop's does not. About finding the place, though, there is something. The arcade is split into two blocks, and one writer says so explicitly, pins this shop to block A and attaches the location separately for that reason. The prices are posted outside so you can read them before going in, and the small room and the frying counter are right there as you step through the door. Whether there is a lip to step over, whether you cross a shared corridor — nobody writes it.
- Not one post mentions a toilet — the word appears zero times across the ten. Whether there is one inside, whether customers use a shared one in the arcade, whether men's and women's are separate: we know none of it. That is not a no; it is an absence. The silence mirrors what the shop is. It occupies about twenty-five square metres, the seating is two small tables, and all ten writers carried their food out. One goes further: the room is small, so you cannot really eat in it — what fills it is takeaway customers and delivery riders waiting for orders. Nobody sat down, so nobody needed a toilet. If it matters to you, a phone call before you go is the quickest way to find out — phone orders are routine here, so someone picks up.
- Not one post describes queueing — the Korean words for a wait or a line appear zero times. Two writers do mention waiting, but both mean waiting for food, not waiting for a place: one describes the room filled with takeaway customers and delivery riders waiting for orders, the other watched customers carry boxes out while her own was made. Three people timed that wait. Five minutes from ordering, says one, pleased at how quick it was; about five minutes as it felt, says another; and a third explains the method — the chicken is fried once in advance and tossed in sauce the moment you order. If you would rather not wait at all, phone ahead — three writers did, one collecting an order placed before setting out, another paying on arrival and leaving straight away. Bear in mind, though, that with only two small tables there is not much room to wait in either.
- Two things the timetable cannot hold. One is that they close early when they run out — a 2020 post records that the day's stock can finish before closing. The other runs the other way: book ahead and they will open earlier or stay later, according to a 2022 post. Each is recorded by one person only. Sunday closes an hour early — four posts say so, and since a December 2020 post and a March 2024 post agree, it appears to have held for four years. The other four write simply eleven to ten with no distinction, and we have not followed them: arrive at half nine on a Sunday and you will find it shut. Only one post mentions closing days at all, to say there are none, and nobody names a day of the week.
Sources (10)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 뚝섬역 수제 닭강정 맛집, 꼬꼬스토리 성수점 2024-03-19 · 일상 기록. · via Daum
- [서울 / 성수 닭강정] 꼬꼬스토리 성수점 2022-12-14 · Jost Do Eat!
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