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대성집

A long-standing house in Gyobuk-dong that built its menu around dogani-tang, ox-knee soup.

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Korean name: 대성집
Address: 5 Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Opening hours: not published by the operator
Hours notes: Opening hours are not listed here. No hours published by the restaurant itself could be found, and the readable newspaper account dates from 2016. Its timetable cannot be presented as current. Only the location was confirmed.
Michelin: Bib Gourmand · 2026

Nearby

The red-brick cell blocks of Seodaemun Prison: two-storey brick wings with regularly spaced barred windows, a large Taegukgi hung down one wall, a few visitors crossing the bare yard, and the rocky summit of Inwangsan rising beyond the roofs.

Seodaemun Prison History Hall

A prison opened in 1908 and used through the colonial period and beyond, now run as a museum. Cell blocks and the execution building survive; the site is registered as the Former Seodaemun Prison. It closes on Mondays, and its hours differ between summer and winter.

Gyeonghuigung Palace

Free, rarely crowded, and small enough to see properly in half an hour — the palace to add when the ticketed ones are full or already closed for the day.

Gyeonggyojang

The two-storey Western-style house that served as the returned Provisional Government's offices and its members' lodgings, from Kim Ku's arrival from China in 1945 until he was shot dead in his second-floor study on 26 June 1949. Built in 1938 as Jukcheomjang, the residence of the gold-mining magnate Choi Chang-hak, it lost its interior first to embassy use and then to a hospital, was restored from 2010 and reopened to the public on 2 March 2013. It still stands inside the grounds of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and is run as a branch of the Seoul Museum of History.

Seoul Museum of History

Next to Gyeonghuigung, laying out in order how Hanyang became today's Seoul — the right first-day stop for getting the shape of the city. It closes on Mondays, which is exactly when several of the palaces are open.

Stories about this place

Seoul Soup Restaurants: Gomtang, Dogani-tang, Chutang, Dwaeji Gukbap, Samgyetang and Daegutang
Eight Seoul restaurants built around one bowl of soup, compared by what the broth is made from, which neighbourhood they are in and who each one suits. Afternoon breaks and closing days are noted where the official listings give them.

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