Gilpost · Gangbuk-gu, Suyu-dong
Yukgaecheonwang Suyu-bonjeom
육개천왕 수유본점 A yukgaejang house in a converted family home a few minutes from Hwagye station in northern Seoul, where the beef-and-bracken soup is built on an ox-bone broth and the front yard doubles as the car park.
Other · Gangbuk-gu, Suyu-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Yukgae Cheonwang is a yukgaejang house at 31 Suyu-ro in Gangbuk-gu, a few minutes' walk from Hwagye station on the Ui line. It is a converted single-storey house with its own front yard for parking — seven writers remark that it looks like a private home, and one says that without the sign she would have walked straight past it. The menu is built on yukgaejang, the same soup with wheat noodles in it, and tofu pots, with a kimchi stew and a pork stir-fry alongside. Seven posts say the broth is made from ox bone. Ten in the morning to nine at night, closed Thursdays. The posts we read run from September 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 강북구 수유로 31, 1층 (수유동) 31 Suyu-ro, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-994-3338 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩12,000 |
| Floor area | 109 m² |
| Status | In business |
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 11 posts: 9 wrote Daily 10:00–21:00, 2 wrote 10:00–21:00.
| Open | Daily | 10:00–21:00 9 of 11 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:00–21:00 2 of 11 posts last seen 2024-12 | |
| Last order | 20:40 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 목요일 12 of 12 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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
- The posts disagree about the heat, and the reason they disagree is that the kitchen adjusts it. Several expected fire from the colour and got none — the same surprise recurs almost word for word: not as hot or as salty as it looks. Others do call it hot, and one of them qualifies it by admitting she cannot take chilli at all. Three posts report choosing mild, normal or hot, and all three asked for themselves — one ordered two bowls and had only her friend's made hot; another asked for the noodle version to be sharpened and found it duly sharper. If heat worries you, say so when you order.
- Quantity is what these writers talk about most, and nobody says there was too little. They agree on what they are looking at: bracken, taro stem, spring onion and beef crowding out the broth. Two report leaving rice unfinished; one regrets the broth she could not face soaking rice in. The large size is visibly larger — two posts photograph the two bowls together. The noodle version comes without rice, and one writer says the noodles alone make rice beside the point.
- There are three side dishes and a help-yourself counter for more. White kimchi, cubed radish kimchi, stir-fried fish cake — every post that lists the sides lists these three, usually in that order. Four writers describe going back for more: two refilled the fish cake twice, one admits to finishing the white kimchi single-handed. The white kimchi comes up again and again as the thing that resets your mouth between spoonfuls of chilli. One writer prefers it this way — only what is needed, rather than a spread.
- A cat lives here. Four writers mention it and all four are describing what they saw: one was head-butted on the knee by an animal that had never met her, one watched it sit loafed beside the table, one gives its name and says it greets you at the door. Three of the four call it dog-like. Some place it outside and some inside, so we do not know how far in it comes. Worth knowing if animals are a problem for you. Conversely, no post says whether you may bring one of your own.
- There is free instant coffee by the till for afterwards. Four posts mention it and three stop to call it a thoughtful touch. The same corner holds the water cooler and a fridge with soft drinks and bottles.
- Five posts say they will come back and none says otherwise. Three of the five name the dish they are coming back for: something else on the menu, the pork stir-fry they watched arrive at the next table, the soup made hot this time. Separately, two writers had already returned — one on her second visit, one calling it a regular haunt and ordering delivery when she cannot get there. The remaining eleven say nothing about their own comings and goings; we cannot tell whether it was their first time.
What 18 bloggers said
We read all 18 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (11) and “Not expensive” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Spicy | yes 6 · no 8 |
|---|
Things you can check on site
| Free refills | 13 of 18 posts |
|---|---|
| Complimentary tea or drink | 4 of 18 posts |
| Resident dog or cat | 4 of 18 posts |
| Large windows | 3 of 18 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 3 of 18 posts |
| Takeout | 3 of 18 posts |
| Self-order screen | 3 of 18 posts |
| Chair seating | 2 of 18 posts |
| A minimum number of portions on the first order | 1 of 18 posts |
| Toilet inside | 1 of 18 posts |
| Air conditioned | 1 of 18 posts |
| Step at the entrance | 1 of 18 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 gyeran jijimi (계란지짐이) — 10 of 18 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
Parking
8 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 8 of 18 posts |
|---|
The front yard is the car park. Fourteen posts say you can park; we counted eight. The other six state it inside an information block — one line among the phone number and the opening hours — and we read those as copied. The eight we kept describe the yard in their own words: parking space in front of the house, room for about three cars, easy parking by the entrance. They do not agree on how many fit: three, four, five or six. None of these is a count; all are glances. Nobody writes about actually parking there — the phrasing is always "looked like it would take".
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 4 of 18 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 1 of 18 posts |
| Date | 1 of 18 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
| Step at the entrance | 1 of 18 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 1 of 18 posts |
There are steps up to the door, and that is the whole of what we know. One post, from June 2025, mentions them. Not one of the eighteen uses the words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp or threshold. How many steps, whether there is a way round, whether there is a lip between the yard and the door — nobody writes it down. It is a single-storey building and the yard is the car park, so a car can probably reach the door, but that is our inference, and an inference is how people end up making a wasted journey. If you need step-free access, ring and ask.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step-free access · 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 themselves4 of 18 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way14 of 18 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 20 posts we gathered, 2 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-10 | 2 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-06 | 2 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Two of the twenty posts have been taken out of the count, which leaves eighteen posts from eighteen blogs. One is a point-of-sale installer advertising its own work here: it is about this restaurant, and it carries the menu, the prices and the hours, which we have used — but nobody in it came to eat, so leaving it in would only inflate every "N of twenty". The other is one writer posting the identical piece to two platforms on the same day; we kept the one and dropped the copy rather than count her twice.
- Not one post declares a sponsorship. We read the bodies and the hashtag blocks at the foot of each. Four state outright that they paid; the other fourteen say nothing either way. There is no batch of near-identical posts here — the eighteen are spread evenly from September 2024 to September 2026, from eighteen different blogs, ordering different things and noticing different things. Thirteen of the eighteen are from 2025, though, so some of the prices in them are two years old.
- One post says the food was slow. It is from September 2024: for reasons the writer cannot work out it took much longer than other places of the kind, she got through two glasses of water, and her mother-in-law grew visibly annoyed — mollified, she adds, on eating it. Nothing in the next two years repeats the complaint. But nothing says it is fast either, so we do not know how it is now.
- Nobody in these posts queued. Three say there was no wait, and all three also say they came early — before the evening, or before the lunch rush that filled the room as they were finishing. None of our writers went at a busy hour. One text does describe lunchtime crowds, but it was written by the company that installed the till, not by a diner; another only predicts that a queue will appear once word gets round. Nor does anyone say, in their own words, whether you can book.
- Only one writer describes the toilet from having seen it — a September 2026 post noting, in its closing summary, that it is inside. Two others carry the words "indoor toilet" and "separate men's and women's", but both sit inside an information block beside the phone number and the opening hours, so we have read them as copied and left them out. Which means nobody records whether it is in fact separated, how many cubicles there are, or how much room there is. That is not an absence of toilets; it is an absence of counting.
- Not one writer says which floor it is on. The licensing register and the address line printed by the check-in widget both say ground floor, but that is the register talking, not somebody who looked. What the posts do give: seven describe a converted family house, several mention the yard and its pine and persimmon and cherry trees, and nobody mentions an upstairs or a landing. It reads as a single storey, but that is our inference. What we actually counted is one post saying there are steps up to the door.
- Twelve posts give opening hours and they barely differ: ten in the morning to nine at night, last orders at twenty to nine, closed every Thursday. Twelve name the Thursday closing, unchanged across two years. Only one text disagrees, and it was not written by a customer — the February 2026 trade post gives weekday hours only, with last orders ten minutes earlier. We could not establish which is current. It will not matter unless you are arriving near closing time; if you are, ring first.
- Three different phone numbers, and we have not chosen between them. The licensing register holds one; four blogs give a redirect number of the kind Korean businesses use to mask the line behind it; the till installer's post gives a third, a local number. The redirect may not reach the same handset, and the registered number may simply be old. Which one is answered today is something a person has to find out by ringing.
- This is the original branch and there are others. Two writers looked it up and said so — one counted two more, the other simply found that it franchises. Everything we have counted comes from this address alone. Prices, hours, side dishes and the cat may all be different elsewhere.
Sources (18)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 깔끔한데 찐득한 그 국물맛 한우사골육개 '육개천왕' !!!! 2025-03-17 · 나린날 · via Daum
- 화계역 근처 얼큰한 한우 사골 육개장집 육개천왕 수유본점 주차장 후기 2025-02-24 · 여행메이트, 꿀&단지 · via Daum
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Of 191 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 18 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.