Korean
Goryeo Samgyetang
고려삼계탕 Goryeo is the medieval Korean kingdom whose name gave us the word Korea; samgyetang is a small whole chicken stuffed with sticky rice and simmered with ginseng.
Compiled from 9 blog posts read in fullSources →
A samgyetang house on a side street beside the Seoul Museum of Art in Jung-gu. The plain chicken-ginseng soup is 20,000 won; there are wild-ginseng and abalone versions and a whole chicken fried without batter. The soup arrives boiling in an earthenware pot with kimchi, radish kimchi and a glass of ginseng liquor. We read 19 posts from 30 January to 20 October 2026; 9 are first-hand visits, the other 10 are multi-restaurant lists and one post about a different shop.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 중구 서소문로11길 1 (서소문동)1 Seosomun-ro 11-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-752-9376
- Typical spend₩11,000 – ₩32,000
- From the station4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 257 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 5 posts: 4 wrote Weekdays 10:30–21:00, 4 wrote Weekends 10:30–20:30.
| Weekdays | 10:30–21:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekends | 10:30–20:30 |
Rows without a count: 4 of 5 posts.
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
- Food comes fast. Four posts say the soup arrived almost as soon as they ordered, one likening it to fast food. Nobody complained of a slow kitchen.
- Many foreign visitors. Four posts noticed them; a January 2026 writer thought tourists roughly outnumbered Koreans, and a June writer still saw them late in the evening.
- Waiting depends on the hour: two posts waited or saw a line, two walked straight in. A July writer saw a long lunchtime line, came back around 2 pm and found none. An August writer got in without waiting at about 12:40, and a June couple arriving at the 10:30 opening found one party ahead. The January wait of two or three groups was during renovation, when only the second floor was open.
- Four posts found it filling — the chicken is small but the sticky-rice stuffing is generous. One writer had enough, but her companion found it too little.
2 more
- Five visit posts all give 20,000 won for the plain soup. One found that steep for a single bowl; the writer who had the 32,000-won wild-ginseng-and-abalone version called it not a light price.
- Four of the nine visit posts were couples. One writer ate alone at a window seat; one came with a work team on the last dog day of summer.
What 9 bloggers said
samgyetang
Large portions
We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (4) and “Food comes quickly” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 2 · no 2 |
|---|
Things you can check on site
- Reachable by transit 4 of 9 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 4 of 9 posts
- Large windows 1 of 9 posts
- Second floor 1 of 9 posts
- Takeout 1 of 9 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
2 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 2 of 9 posts |
|---|
Two posts parked nearby: one used the lot run by neighbouring Paichai High School, where the restaurant covers the first hour; the other named the Paichai Jeongdong Building car park. No one mentioned a lot of the restaurant's own.
Who came, and with whom
- Date 4 of 9 posts
- Group visit 1 of 9 posts
- Solo visit 1 of 9 posts
- Came by car 1 of 9 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Second floor | 1 of 9 posts |
|---|
We don't know which floor you will be seated on. One post mentions only the second floor being open during renovation, another a staircase beside the entrance; no one says how the floors are used now.
No one says whether there is a step at the door or whether a wheelchair or pushchair can get in. That is a gap in what was written, not evidence either way.
No post says where the toilet is or whether it is separated by sex.
No one mentioned: 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 themselves9 of 9 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 18 posts we gathered, 9 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Accounts of the room differ by date. A January 2026 writer went during renovation, when only the second floor was open, and found tables crammed and noisy — adding that the work has since finished. Two posts from June and July call the room spacious and pleasant.
- Five posts list opening hours; four agree on 10:30-21:00 weekdays and 10:30-20:30 weekends, all copied from listings, and one says 10:30-21:00 daily. One couple did walk in at the 10:30 opening. No visit post confirms closing days or a break time.
- Two posts give the phone number 02-752-9376. One copied a note that Naver booking is available, but no one actually reserved before going.
- The Michelin listings, the 1960 founding as 'Korea's first samgyetang restaurant' and the seven-week-old cockerels are the house's own claims or copied from lists; we did not count them.
Sources (9)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 시청역 고려삼계탕 미슐랭 맛집 대한민국 1호 삼계탕집 내돈내산 후기 2026-09-13 · 빡세게살자 · via Daum
- 시청역 근처에서 먹은 산삼 전복 삼계탕, 고려삼계탕 방문 후기 2026-08-30 · 만쥬의 일상기록
- 시청역 서울시립미술관 맛집 고려삼계탕 내돈내산 후기 2026-08-03 · 진짜의 삶
- 고려통닭/대한민국최초의삼계탕/1960년부터 2대째운영/생생정보통방영/고려삼계탕 주차정보 (2026.07.03) 2026-08-02 · 내삶의 오아시스 · via Daum
- 시청역 삼계탕 맛집 고려삼계탕, 기본에 충실한 몸보신 한 끼 2026-07-25 · 천상여자 민배씨의 소소한 일상
- [서울 중구] 서울시립미술관 맛집 고려삼계탕 내돈내산 후기! 미슐.... 2026-07-14 · 쯈니가 간다간다 뿅간다!
- [서울 시청역] 고려삼계탕 2026-06-21 · 오늘은 시요일 · via Daum
- 서울미쉐린맛집 서울시청맛집 고려 삼계탕 #내돈내산 후기 🐔👩🍳 2026-06-12 · 린노트 (Lynnote) · via Daum
- 광화문 고려삼계탕 서울 3대 삼계탕 맛집 비교 후기 내돈내산 2026-01-30 · 솔직리뷰 블로그 · via Daum
Of 353 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 9 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.