Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
WaA
와아 Waa WaA is 와인 (wine) + 아이스크림 (ice cream) run together, and also 와아 — the noise of being impressed, roughly "wow". Four writers were handed a card at the table explaining both readings
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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WaA is a wine bar on the third floor of a green building, up a lane beside exit 5 at Ttukseom. It sells three things — ice cream made on the premises, a cheese plate, and wine. No food, no coffee. Six ice creams at a time, rotated with the season, with a camembert and a blue cheese as the house signatures. Everyone at the table orders a glass of wine, and ice cream comes two scoops at a time unless you take the cheese plate. Five in the afternoon until midnight Monday to Thursday, from three on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There is a roof terrace upstairs, shut in winter according to one writer. The posts we read run from November 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 상원2길 1-10, 3층 (성수동1가) 1-10 Sangwon 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1366-3924 |
| Typical spend | ₩5,000 – ₩58,000 |
| Floor area | 62 m² |
| Status | In business |
17 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | 17:00–24:00 19 of 20 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
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| Open | 15:00–24:00 18 of 20 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Open | Weekends | 15:00–24:00 2 of 20 posts last seen 2026-05 |
The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.
What sets it apart
- Everyone at the table has to order a glass of wine. Six writers, independently, copy the same line — it is on a card the bar puts out, and what they are copying is the card. If you are going with someone who does not drink, that changes the bill, so it matters before the prices do. The same card sets a two-scoop minimum on ice cream ordered on its own (waived with the cheese plate) and a two-hour limit, ninety minutes if all you have is a glass — both relaxed when nobody is waiting. Two posts mention non-alcoholic wine and both add the same warning: there is not much of it, so ask before you go. One writer went alone, had a single glass with the cheese plate, and was fine, so the rule is per person and not per visit.
- The ice cream is made on site — seven posts say so, one of them adding that it is churned every morning. Six describe six flavours at a time, rotating with the season, and across the ten months we read, eleven names appear. The black sesame in the oldest post, from November 2025, never comes back; basil and mascarpone exist only around February 2026; ube only in two posts from May. Camembert, blue cheese, cacao-coconut and bilberry yoghurt, by contrast, run the whole way through. The flavours lean somewhere an ice cream shop would not: half of them are salty or savoury — cheese, nuts, sweetcorn — and four writers note that the ingredients are picked to sit next to wine. Four were told by staff to tip the granola in once the scoop starts to melt.
- It is on the third floor, up two flights. Outside stairs take you to a door marked “Wine and Ice cream,” and behind that door there is another staircase. Four posts spell out the doubling; the inner flight, lined with empty bottles, is the first thing nine of them describe. Three call the stairs steep. One warns there is no handrail and admits to climbing with a fistful of long skirt; another ends her post thinking about the way down — take the stairs carefully, she writes. Finding it is not the problem: five mention the A-board at street level, eleven describe the building as olive green, and two give the same turning — the lane between the Starbucks and the kimbap shop. One post says second floor, but the same post describes the roof terrace, so it looks like a slip: the other twenty-five, and the licence, say third.
- The toilet is inside the bar, and this comes from three writers who saw it rather than from a copied list — one says so plainly; one uses it as a landmark (the stairs up to the roof terrace are beside the ladies'); and one describes it properly. By that account the women's is inside the room and the men's is just outside the bar's own door — and since that door is at the top of the stairs, she points out, the men's is not shared with the building either. Open it and the basin and the toilet are right there. Only that one writer states outright that they are separated by sex — the other two mentions of separate toilets sit in copied amenity lists and we have not counted them. Nobody calls the toilet cramped or dirty, and nobody mentions an accessible one.
- Three ways in — book on Naver, book on CatchTable, or put your name in the machine by the door. Parties of three or more go through CatchTable only, says one; three others point out that the app shows the queue before you set off. One writer put her name down from the restaurant downstairs while finishing dinner and walked straight up. Whether people waited splits cleanly by when they went. The writer who queued thirty minutes turned up on a weekend evening without a booking; the two who walked in came at half eight on a weeknight and half three on a Friday. One copies the house line that a queue can build after eight, and one offers the reason: once people are in, they stay, and the tables do not turn. Another found it nearly full on a weekday afternoon.
- Both “small” and “roomy” appear, and small wins on the count — five posts (not many tables, snug, smaller than expected, four people is about the limit) against two (bigger than it looks, plenty of tables with room between them). On the actual furniture they agree: a bar counter, which one writer maps as an L, three or four tables for two, and one large one. The group table seats four to eight, says one; two others tell you to ring ahead if there are several of you. One notes the coat rail. Upstairs is a single big wooden table, according to one post.
- Eight posts record something the owner did, and the somethings repeat. Picking a wine for you (three). Telling you to tip the granola in as the scoop softens (four). Telling you to take the wine first and the ice cream after (two). Walking you through the cheese plate (one). Pouring for you at the table (one). One writer mentioned it was her birthday and a candle appeared; another watched the next table arrive with a cake of their own — three posts note that you may bring one. Four were handed a card or leaflet explaining the name, which means wine-and-ice-cream and also the noise you are supposed to make. Nobody reports being treated badly.
- Ten posts call it good value and none calls it expensive. The figures never contradict each other: ₩5,000 a scoop, ₩10,000 a glass, ₩18,000 for the cheese plate, and no sign of movement across the ten months. Two writers give a whole bill: ₩34,000 for two glasses, a scoop and the seasonal plate between two; ₩103,000 for four. Only one gives a bottle price, so what bottles cost in general we do not know — there are two impressions and no numbers. Corkage is ₩30,000 according to two; two more say only that there is a charge. Mostly, “good value” here means cheap enough for somewhere you go after dinner: eleven posts use the word for a second stop, and seven name where they had eaten first.
- You walk from exit 5 at Ttukseom. Seventeen posts say it is close and no two agree how close — one says one to two minutes, four say two, one says two to three, two say three, one says five to seven, and one measures it as seven minutes from Seongsu. The rest skip the number: right outside, really near. Two give eighty-two metres, and both look to be repeating the figure Naver prints. It is Ttukseom, not Seongsu station — two writers clock the walk from the Seongsu end at about seven minutes, so allow that if you are finishing a day over there.
- Write a Naver review and you get a scoop. Six posts mention it, two adding that it is capped at five parties a day, one that you have to order something first. Four actually collected, and two of those ended up eating three ice creams because of it. Alongside it there are other offers, each in a different post: a follow-us coupon (first five parties, one scoop), a mini cheese plate for booking in certain hours, and a voucher for a mini cheese plate next time. What people were given varies, and one writer notes that the cheese plate offer she used through Naver appears to have ended. Two say to check the listing before you go, which seems like the right advice.
- The company barely varies from post to post. Fourteen use the word date; five suggest it for a first meeting; two came for the dinner friends hold before a wedding. Eleven describe the same shape of evening — dinner somewhere else, then this, lightly — and seven of those say where they had eaten. Four point out that the food is small enough to manage on a full stomach. Two came alone, both were put at the bar, and one sat there for an hour quite happily. Three came in groups, and two of those warn that more than four is tight. Nobody brought a child.
What 29 bloggers said
We read all 29 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (0) and “Friendly staff” (8).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 6 · no 2 |
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| Roomy | yes 2 · no 5 |
| Quiet | yes 4 · no 2 |
Things you can check on site
| Second floor | 26 of 29 posts |
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| Reachable by transit | 17 of 29 posts |
| Takes reservations | 12 of 29 posts |
| Prepped daily | 7 of 29 posts |
| One drink per person required | 6 of 29 posts |
| Review event | 6 of 29 posts |
| Coupon | 5 of 29 posts |
| Toilet inside | 3 of 29 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 2 of 29 posts |
| Waiting area | 2 of 29 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 29 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 29 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 | 3 of 29 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 2 of 29 posts |
| Solo visit | 2 of 29 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 | 26 of 29 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 3 of 29 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 29 posts |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. None mentions a lift either — and we cannot tell whether that means there is none or that nobody looked. What is certain is the stairs: twenty-six posts put the bar on the third floor, four describe both the outside and the inside flight, three call them steep. Whether there is a step at the door, how many stairs there are, whether there is another way up — nobody writes. The roof terrace is another flight above that.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet. 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 themselves10 of 29 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way19 of 29 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 32 posts we gathered, 3 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
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Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 5 |
| 2026-02 | 3 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 4 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Nobody declares a sponsorship. We read the bodies and the hashtag tails, then swept the lot again by machine for the usual agency phrasings, and nothing came back. Ten posts state outright that they paid. Free things did change hands, though: four writers got an extra scoop through the Naver review offer or a follow coupon, and two came away with a voucher for a mini cheese plate on a future visit. Because that offer is open to anyone who walks in — two posts note it is capped at five parties a day — we did not count it as sponsorship. But “good value” from someone who was given a free scoop is not quite the same sentence as “good value” from someone who paid for everything, and four of the ten who call it good value are those four.
- Where a writer had merely copied the shop's listing, we did not count it as something seen. Posts about this place tend to open by pasting the Naver facilities list wholesale — one reproduces it in the listing's own order, and eight more do the same thing. So dogs allowed (six posts), no children (three), Wi-Fi (one) and the local-currency card (one) are not counted here: not one writer brought a dog, saw someone else's, was turned away with a child, or used the Wi-Fi. What a post says and what its writer saw are two different things. The same goes for the toilets — we kept only the three posts that describe them from having used them.
- Whether it is quiet, people disagree. Four say it is: the music sits low enough that you can hear the person opposite; plenty of tables but not a loud room; busy without being noisy; conversation rather than clamour. Two say otherwise — one states flatly that the music was too loud, and the other warns that the ventilation and the volume can be disappointing depending on when you go. Both of those are from April and July 2026; the four quiet ones are from February, August and two Januaries. Whether that is the night, the hour, or a change in the room, we cannot tell.
- One writer smelled something. In a May 2026 post she notes a mustiness — odd, she thinks, in a place that sells ice cream — and puts it down to poor ventilation. She is sensitive to smells and it bothered her all evening; it was early April, the windows were shut and the air conditioning was off. She is the only one of the twenty-nine who says she would not go back. Two months later another post mentions in passing that the ventilation can disappoint depending on the day. The other twenty-seven say nothing about it, and one of them calls the room spotless. This could be one bad evening or it could be the season, and we cannot tell which.
- Two posts have the hours the wrong way round. Eighteen agree on five to midnight Monday to Thursday and three to midnight Friday to Sunday; two swap the two halves, and one drops Friday and says the three o'clock opening is weekends only. One writer turned up at half three on a Friday and found one other table, which settles it in favour of the fifteen. Two posts lead with the fact that you can drink here in the afternoon. Christmas ran differently — four o'clock on the 24th, two o'clock on the 25th, according to one. The roof closes at eleven, says one; it seemed not to open at all in winter, says another. Nobody writes down a closing day.
- Thirty-two posts by thirty-two people — nobody wrote twice. But three of them were not writing about a first visit: one calls it the only wine bar she keeps going back to and lists what she ate there last summer; one says she goes every time she is in Seongsu in summer; one posts photographs from an earlier trip alongside the new ones. All three name the flavours they had before, which is how we can see the seasons turning over. Three posts we set aside: a hospital's corporate blog (no order, no date, no price, anywhere in it); a round-up of three ice-cream wine bars, whose WaA paragraph is credited to the bar's own Instagram; and a piece about a bread trend in which the roof terrace appears as a photo spot and nothing is eaten. That last one asserts that the roof is tiled in an asphalt texture — a detail that exists in none of the other thirty-one posts.
Sources (29)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 262 candidate posts we opened 38 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.