Gwanghwamun Gukbap
광화문국밥
A dwaeji-gukbap house working in the clear-broth style, with boiled pork and blood sausage beside it.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 광화문국밥
- Address
- 53 Sejong-daero 21-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Opening hours
- 11:00–21:40 (closed 14:30–17:30)
- Closed
- Every Sun
What to eat
Pyeongyang naengmyeon — buckwheat noodles in chilled broth selected
Nearby
Cheonggyecheon
A stream running east across the middle of the city. The work that lifted the road deck off it began in July 2003 and finished in September 2005, and the water has been walkable alongside ever since. Cheonggye Plaza, at the western end, is where most people start.
Yonggeumok
A Seoul-style chutang house trading since 1932, its loach soup built on a beef broth with tofu, mushrooms and fried bean curd.
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts
The city-run performing arts centre across from Gwanghwamun Square, running several halls beside its main theatre. It sits where a day spent between Gyeongbokgung and Gwanghwamun already ends.
Deoksugung Palace
The one palace built for an evening visit — it stays open to 21:00 while the others close in the afternoon, and it sits directly on a subway exit in the middle of the business district.
Stories about this place
- What the broth is made of — eight Seoul houses, seven different bases
Beef, ox knee, beef stock with loach, pork twice, a whole chicken, cod, and sausage. Eight Seoul houses whose signature is a single bowl of soup, arranged by what that soup is actually made from. A bowl costs between 11,000 and 20,000 won, four of them shut for part of the afternoon, and two publish no hours at all.
Nearby Food
- Five Seoul Korean Barbecue Restaurants: Hanwoo, Galbi, Bulgogi and Pork Belly
- Northern Korean Food in Seoul: Naengmyeon, Eobok-jaengban, Mandu and Kongbiji
- Seven Seoul houses that open for breakfast — before eight in the morning
- Six Seoul houses that make the noodle by hand — kalguksu, guksi, sujebi
- Enjoying Seoul's Cafe Culture
- The Hongdae and Yeonnam-dong Cafe Streets
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