Gilpost · Gangnam-gu, Yeoksam-dong
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Jusindang Gangnam-jeom
주신당 강남점 Jusindang began as a bar in Sindang-dong; one post says the name reworks that neighborhood's old sense, 'the place that serves the gods', around the twelve zodiac gods, and -dang means a hall or shrine.
Compiled from 9 blog posts read in fullSources →
A cocktail bar in a basement off Gangnam-daero 96-gil, near exit 11 of Gangnam Station, serving cocktails named after the twelve zodiac animals with Korean fusion dishes, plus lunch courses. Posts list cocktails at 17,000-19,000 won, potato pancake and gondeure noodles at 19,000, sous-vide short rib at 45,000, lunch course B at 23,000 and course D at 50,000 per person. Several posts describe the dark, underwater-palace interior and getting a cocktail picked from your saju (birth-date fortune) via a QR code or table card. We read 14 posts from 31 August to 20 October 2026; 9 record an actual visit. Of the other 5, four are near-identical promotional pieces sharing the same hashtags and one is a roundup of ten bars, and we did not count them.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 강남구 강남대로96길 9, 지하1층 (역삼동)9 Gangnam-daero 96-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
- Phone0507-1349-4225
- Typical spend₩12,000 – ₩58,000
- From the station2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 179 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 7 posts: 7 wrote Daily 11:00–02:00.
| Daily | 11:00–02:00 | 7 of 7 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–17:00 | 6 of 6 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
- There are private rooms. Five posts mention them and two sat in one: a group who booked and were given a room for a wedding-invitation dinner, and a couple with a three-year-old who were shown to a room so they need not worry about other guests. Two others sat at the bar and liked watching the bartenders work.
- Two posts say food came slowly: a course-D group said the kitchen was so slow they gave up on a second venue, and another put the wait down to how busy it was.
- One post came with a child: a couple and their three-year-old had course C and beer, and a high chair was provided. Another post lists high chairs only in a copied info block, which we did not count.
- Two posts got ice cream for writing a Naver review, and both liked it.
What 9 bloggers said
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Friendly staff
We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (3) and “Roomy” (2).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- In a basement 6 of 9 posts
- Private room 5 of 9 posts
- Takes reservations 2 of 9 posts
- Reachable by transit 2 of 9 posts
- Review event 2 of 9 posts
- High chairs 1 of 9 posts
- Discount offered 1 of 9 posts
- Beer served 1 of 9 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 1 of 9 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Who came, and with whom
- With a friend 4 of 9 posts
- Came with children 1 of 9 posts
- Family visit 1 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
2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| In a basement | 6 of 9 posts |
|---|
You go down stairs to a basement. Six posts describe the descent, one likening the blue-lit staircase to sinking underwater and another finding it a bit eerie.
We do not know about wheelchair or pushchair access. Two posts mention stairs down to the basement, but none mentions a lift or a step at the door. That means nobody wrote about it, not that there is none.
No one described where the toilets are; separate men's and women's toilets appear only in one copied info block.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 themselves4 of 9 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way5 of 9 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 14 posts we gathered, 5 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.
| 2026-10-12 | 2 posts in one day |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | 2 posts in one day |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
| 2026-10 | 6 |
What we do not know
- Posts split on price: two call it expensive, one calls it good value, having found that the 35,000-won course C covered two people rather than one.
- On portions it is one against one: one post found the potato pancake pizza-sized, another said the lunch course was not generous though it was enough. One course-D post found the rice and noodle mains small.
- Two posts describe the walk: about three minutes from exit 11 of Gangnam Station, with a slight slope on the way per one. No one mentions a bus.
- Only one post mentions waiting: no queue on a public-holiday Monday evening. Two others had booked ahead. We do not know how long waits are at busy times.
- Most went with friends (four posts); one sat alone at the bar, one came as a family with a toddler, and one was a group wedding-invitation dinner.
- Opening hours agree across seven posts: daily 11:00 to 02:00, with a 15:00-17:00 break. But six of those are copied info blocks, and the one post that wrote them itself left out the break. That lunch courses A and B are weekday-only appears only in one info block. Five posts give the same phone number, 0507-1349-4225; booking via Naver and CatchTable is mentioned only in one info block.
- Four posts from 10-12 October 2026 share the same seven hashtags in the same order and list office dinners, blind dates, wedding-invitation gatherings and private rooms without naming a single dish or price. We treated them as commissioned copy and did not count them.
Sources (9)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [서울 강남] 주신당 강남 | 용궁 같은 이색 맛집에서 런치 코스 먹고 .... 2026-10-20 · 주관적 관점@도도히
- 강남 분위기 좋은 칵테일바, 주신당 강남점, 12지신 칵테일, 우대수.... 2026-10-14 · Karlie일상
- 강남역 분위기 좋은 술집 추천 | 나에코·주신당 강남 내돈내산 후기.... 2026-10-13 · Hey.O'diary
- 강남역 단체모임 주신당 강남점, 용궁 인테리어와 이색 안주가 가득한 핫플 후기 2026-10-11 · plaveloverr · via Daum
- 주신당 강남 코스 요리 내돈내산 후기 2026-10-10 · Seti
- 강남역 술집 추천 주신당 강남 사주 칵테일 즐긴 이색 술집 2026-10-10 · 소소하지만 행복한 나행홈
- 강남역 아이동반 술집 주점 추천 <주신당 강남점> 강남 웰컴키즈존 2026-09-29 · 육아와 쀼의 세계
- 강남 이색 칵테일바 강남역 술집 추천 용궁인테리어 시그니처 12지신칵테일 주신당 2026-09-18 · It's a beautiful life. God bless you! · via Daum
- [신논현 술집] 주신당 내돈내산｜사주 보고 칵테일 추천받는 이색바.... 2026-08-31 · 하늘콩의 지구산책
Of 440 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 9 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.