Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 2-ga
Bonjuk & Bibimbap Seongsu Hillstate-jeom
본죽&비빔밥 성수힐스테이트점 Bonjuk means the chain's own congee — bon is its coined word for root or origin — and the second half of the sign is bibimbap; this is the small ground-floor branch by the Hillstate flats in Seongsu, where office workers come at lunch and, by two writers' reckoning, the only place in Seongsu that sells congee at all.
Korean · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 2-ga
Data as of · Published ·
The Seongsu Hillstate branch of Bonjuk & Bibimbap is a congee-chain shop on the ground floor of a street beside the Hillstate flats in Seongsu-dong. The licence record carries the word "cafe" in the name; the sign and the check-ins do not. It is a weekday lunch place for people who work in Seongsu, and half the posts we read are a single day inside a five-day "what I ate for lunch this week" series. The rest are records of days when somebody was unwell — gastritis, flu, the day after a health check — and wanted congee. Congee is the point; the bibimbap came later. The room is not large, there are seats, and there is just as much talk of carrying the food away. One post gives the hours as nine to eight on weekdays, closed Saturday and Sunday. The eight posts run from December 2024 to January 2026, and seven people wrote them.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 성수일로4길 37 (성수동2가, 성수2가 333-123 지상1층) 37 Seongsuil-ro 4-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-465-4372 |
| Typical spend | ₩11,000 – ₩12,500 |
| Floor area | 36 m² |
| Status | In business |
What sets it apart
- It is a chain branch, and two writers say the branches differ. One says congee style varies from shop to shop and that this one is the best she has had. The other states flatly that Bonjuk tastes different shop by shop, and advises looking your branch up on the company's own site to see whether it has done the in-house training course or been named a good branch — this one, she reports, has. We have not verified that; we count only that one person read it there and wrote it down. What is worth taking is not the certificate but the fact that people who have eaten at several branches insist the sign is not the shop. A third writer puts the shop's role in the neighbourhood in one line: when you cannot decide what to eat, go to a chain.
- Half of what is written about this shop is about carrying the food out. That is what a congee shop is for: you fetch it for someone who is ill, or you arrive too unwell to finish a bowl and take it home. One writer asked for her bowl to be split in half in the shop, was told that splitting is only done for takeaway, switched to takeaway, and found the bowl divided into three small tubs — which, she says, is exactly what you want when you are ill and eating a meal at a time. Another walked twenty minutes there and back for a bibimbap for an unwell partner. A third could have had it delivered and walked instead, partly to avoid the packaging. Eating in and taking out are split down the middle here.
- People mostly come here because of their bodies. Three of the eight were ill: one with gastritis who could not manage solid food, one told to stay on congee the day after a health check, and one who writes that the job made her sick often enough that she came for congee often. That last writer really did keep coming back. The others are office workers picking somewhere for lunch — and one of them notes, with some astonishment, that nothing else in Seongsu sells congee, so this is where you have to walk. Two separate posts say the same thing in different words. When you are unwell in Seongsu, this is the address.
- It is small, and the seats go at lunchtime. One writer notes the room is not large, as Bonjuk shops go. Another says that since the bibimbap was added there is even less room to sit at lunch, and that had she arrived later she would have had to wait — she did not. Nobody here reports actually queueing, but that one observation about lunchtime is her own, seen with her own eyes. Three writers ate in and all three found a seat, and one says eating alone attracts no attention. Not one post says how many seats there are, or what kind.
- Only two posts give a price: ₩11,000 for the beef-and-mushroom congee in February 2025, ₩12,500 for the jjamppong congee in January 2026. They are different dishes, so we cannot say whether anything has gone up. Only one writer complains, and specifically: he asks the shop to take five hundred won off the jjamppong. One more figure is worth having — someone who worked here in 2022–23 says the company lunch allowance was ₩12,000 and people ate to it. A ₩12,500 congee is just over that line. One writer mentions occasional discount-coupon promotions.
What 6 bloggers said
We read all 6 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (2) and “Returning customer” (1).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Seats to sit and eat | 3 of 6 posts |
|---|---|
| Independent, not a chain | 2 of 6 posts — saying it is not |
| Takeout | 2 of 6 posts |
| Coupon | 1 of 6 posts |
| Complimentary starter | 1 of 6 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is sin jjamppong juk (신짬뽕죽) — 2 of 6 posts.
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 | 1 of 6 posts |
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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 do not know whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across all eight posts the words for wheelchair, pushchair, step, threshold, ramp and lift never appear. Not a yes, not a no — nobody looked. What we can say is that the address puts it on the ground floor.
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 themselves3 of 6 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way3 of 6 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Nobody writes about getting here. All eight writers work or live nearby, so none of them had reason to count minutes from a station. There are fragments: the lunch series is headed "working near exit 3, prefer within five minutes on foot"; one writer calls it the Bonjuk near the office; another, who lives on the other side of Seongsu, says it is a bit of a trek because the only Bonjuk shops are by the station and the Hillstate flats. It reads as walkable from Seongsu station, but nobody gives a figure. The address is 37 Seongsuil-ro 4-gil; check the map before you set out.
- Not one post mentions a lavatory — whether there is one in the shop or shared with the building, whether it is separated by sex. Nobody wrote it down. For a place people drop into for one bowl at lunch that is unsurprising, but we record the gap rather than paper over it.
- No writer describes the floor or any steps in their own words. The licence record and the check-in widget both print "1F", but that is a line of an address; none of these eight says anything about getting from the street to the door. Whether there is a step, which way the door faces, whether there are stairs — nobody wrote it.
- Almost nobody says who they came with. One post reads as a solo lunch, and that writer says eating alone here is comfortable. One went alone to collect a bibimbap for an unwell partner. The rest simply say they came at lunchtime. The same series does write "our team" about other shops, so these are people who eat in groups — but the Bonjuk entries say nothing about company, so we have counted none. Whether a group can be seated, or tables pushed together, we do not know; two writers only say the room is not large.
- Only one post gives the opening hours: nine to eight, closed Saturday and Sunday, in a December 2024 post. One person's word is not confirmation, so we have not put it in the table. Nothing else contradicts it — the other visits fall on a Monday, a Wednesday and a Friday, and one writer went on "the last weekday in March". That single post is all we have on weekends, so check before going on a Saturday. No post mentions an afternoon break or a last order. And not one post gives a phone number or mentions booking — it reads as a place you walk into at lunch, not one you ring ahead.
- Eight posts are not eight people, and not eight reviews either. One blogger wrote this shop up twice inside a weekly-lunch series, so there are seven writers. And five of the eight are round-ups covering several shops at once — one carries some thirty check-ins and gives Bonjuk two lines. So in those five we read only the passage about this shop and counted nothing from the neighbours — not the roomy one, not the fast one, not the friendly one, not the queue. Two of them record a visit but say nothing at all about the shop, so they are in the denominator and nothing is counted from them. Nobody declares a sponsorship and four state they paid their own way. One did eat on a company lunch allowance, which is a condition of employment rather than a favour, and we have left it at that.
Sources (6)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 성수 직장인의 일주일 점심 (13) 2026-01-26 · 보관함 · via Daum
- 건강검진 받고 죽먹기! 성수동 본죽 2025-12-07 · ttukhj님의블로그 · via Daum
- [2월 3주차] 성수역 맛집 내돈내산 국밥 태국음식 등 식당 추천 2025-05-06 · 알쏭달쏭밍그르르 · via Daum
- 리북집 논현ㆍ본죽&비빔밥 성수 2025-03-12 · 일상을 쓰고 펼쳐보자 · via Daum
- (舊)성수동 직장인의 성수 밥집을 모와모아모아.. 2025-02-21 · 얼짱강아민지 · via Daum
- 서울 성동구 성수역 내돈내산 죽 리뷰 [본죽&비빔밥 성수힐스테이트점] 2024-12-02 · 바비의 기록노트 · via Daum
We opened all 122 candidate posts and kept 6 as evidence.