Guwoldong Kkachine (구월동 까치네) is a pojangmacha-style pub on Dongil-ro 22-gil near Konkuk University Station in Seoul, with a long menu of drinking dishes, stews and street snacks. A coworker and I went there after work on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, and ordered Set 4 (braised spicy chicken, yukhoe and egg roll kimbap), plus a second egg roll kimbap, old-style tteokbokki and janchi guksu, with soju and beer. For 74,400 won in total it was cheap, everything we ordered was good, and the egg roll kimbap was the best of all.
- Name: 구월동 까치네 (Guwoldong Kkachine), Kondae
- Address: 1F, 64 Dongil-ro 22-gil, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul (서울 광진구 동일로22길 64 1층, from the receipt) · Google Maps
- Visited: Tuesday, March 31, 2026, from about 6:30 p.m., after work with a coworker
- What we ordered (receipt): Set 4 32,700 won, Chamisul soju 4,500 × 3, Kelly beer 4,500 × 3, egg roll kimbap 4,900, old-style tteokbokki 3,900, janchi guksu 5,900. Total 74,400 won
- My rating: 4.5 / 5
- Info checked: September 24, 2026
A pojangmacha after work in Kondae
A pojangmacha (포장마차) is a Korean street tent bar, where people drink soju with cheap, simple dishes. Guwoldong Kkachine is an indoor restaurant built in that style, on one of the restaurant streets near Konkuk University Station, an area Koreans call Kondae. The front is open to the street, with bright yellow signs and photos of the dishes over the entrance. Inside, there are round tables on striped barrel bases, low stools, and posters for the dishes on the walls.
The name refers to Guwol-dong, a neighborhood in Incheon. The top of the menu says the place is “a big memory that started in a small pojangmacha in Guwol-dong”, and a poster on the wall tells the same story: that its tteokbokki, cooked thick with a homemade sauce, and its carefully rolled egg roll kimbap began in a small street stall and have been loved ever since.
The sets
The easiest way to order is one of the sets at the top of the menu. Sets 1 to 4 each pair a main dish with yukhoe and egg roll kimbap and were discounted from the listed price when we went; Set 5 is ramyeon with egg roll kimbap:
| Set | What is in it | Price (won) |
|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | Chicken feet in broth, yukhoe, egg roll kimbap | 30,700 (listed 33,700) |
| Set 2 | Spicy fish roe stew, yukhoe, egg roll kimbap | 32,700 (listed 35,700) |
| Set 3 | Beef tendon stew, yukhoe, egg roll kimbap | 38,700 (listed 41,700) |
| Set 4 | Braised spicy chicken, yukhoe, egg roll kimbap | 32,700 (listed 35,700) |
| Set 5 | Ramyeon and egg roll kimbap | 9,900 |
We ordered Set 4, with dakbokkeumtang (닭볶음탕), chicken braised in a spicy red sauce. On its own, the menu lists the braised chicken with green onion (신선대파닭볶음탕) at 20,900 won; with the yukhoe at 9,900 won and the egg roll kimbap at 4,900 won, that adds up to the set’s listed price of 35,700 won, and the set price was 32,700 won. The menu marks the chicken as fresh chicken from Harim, a Korean poultry company.
Yukhoe
The yukhoe (육회), seasoned raw beef, came as a mound of beef topped with sprouts, with an egg yolk in a separate small dish. You pour the yolk over the beef and mix it before eating. The menu lists the beef as 1++ hanwoo (the top grade of Korean beef) at 9,900 won when ordered on its own.
Egg roll kimbap
Egg roll kimbap (계란말이김밥) is kimbap, rice and fillings rolled in seaweed, which is then wrapped again in a layer of rolled omelette. At Kkachine it came as a whole roll on a round plate, with the thin egg layer folded around it and a red-brown sauce spooned over the top. Cut open, it showed rice and several fillings inside the seaweed.
This was the best thing we ate, and the egg was the reason: the layer of omelette wrapped around the roll is what made it stand out from ordinary kimbap. The set came with one, and the receipt shows a second one ordered separately for 4,900 won. The menu also lists bulgogi, tuna and cheese versions at 5,900 won each.
Tteokbokki and janchi guksu
We also had old-style tteokbokki (옛날떡볶이, 3,900 won), the dish the poster says the restaurant started with, and janchi guksu (잔치국수, 5,900 won), thin wheat noodles in a light broth. Both cost less than 6,000 won, and we were happy with both.
The rest of the menu
The menu is long. The restaurant’s own recommendations, marked with a star, include chicken feet in broth (18,900 won), a hangover fish roe stew (20,900 won), 1++ hanwoo beef tendon stew (26,900 won) and the braised chicken. The drinking-dish section has more than a dozen stir-fries and grilled dishes, mostly between 12,900 and 17,900 won, such as spicy pork, squid, boneless chicken feet and grilled mackerel. There are stews from 15,900 to 17,900 won, fruit plates and sorbets, and a snack corner with fried snacks, sundae, fish cake skewers, ramyeon (5,000 won) and udon (5,900 won). A bowl of rice is 1,000 won.
Drinks were all under 7,000 won. Soju, bottled beer, Saero and Jinro soju and a 500 ml draft beer were all 4,500 won, and highballs were 5,900 to 6,900 won. Soft drinks were 2,000 won.
The egg roll kimbap is the reason
For two people after work, 74,400 won covered a set, three extra dishes and six drinks, and every dish we ordered was good. The egg roll kimbap alone is a reason to go back. My rating is 4.5 out of 5.
More places we have eaten around Konkuk University:
- Taeyang Gopchang, spicy stir-fried gopchang on the same street
- 502 Jjigae Maeul, braised chicken with aged kimchi