4.0Nongoeul 논고을
A charcoal-grill house in Sadang built on chamnamu-fired galbisal (beef rib meat) and fresh duck loin, popular enough to draw a roughly 100-meter line during evening rush hour near Sadang Station.
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4.3Gwangpyeong Pyeongyang Naengmyeon Galbi 광평 평양냉면갈비
Gwangpyeong Pyeongyang Naengmyeon Galbi is chef Kim In-bok's Pyeongyang-style naengmyeon-and-grilled-pork restaurant in Samsung-dong, built around goldong-myeon (buckwheat cold noodles), dolbe-gogi (sliced boiled pork), and a beef-tartare-and-uni yukhoe hanwooni.
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4.5Seoryeong 서령
This is Seoryeong’s main branch at 10 Sowol-ro, near Namdaemun.
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4.2Woo Lae Oak 우래옥
A long-running Pyeongyang-style naengmyeon house in Jung-gu known for its mild, buckwheat-forward cold noodles alongside bulgogi and other grilled beef.
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4.1Pildong Myeonok 필동면옥
A long-running Pyongyang-style naengmyeon institution near Chungmuro, unchanged in format since it opened in the early 1990s: cold buckwheat noodles, a steamed dumpling platter, and sliced boiled pork (jeyuk) as the core order.
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4.3Jinmi Pyeongyang Naengmyeon 진미평양냉면
Jinmi Pyeongyang Naengmyeon in Nonhyeon-dong serves cold buckwheat noodles, dumplings and boiled meats.
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3.9Cheongsongok 청송옥
A Jung-gu institution near City Hall serving jangteo-gukbap, a spicy Gyeongsang-style beef soup that has run under this registration since 1973.
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3.7Ishindon Haemul-samhap 이신돈해물삼합
A long-running neighborhood restaurant in Hwayang-dong near Konkuk University, known for haemul-samhap, a shared platter combining grilled pork belly, seafood, and aged kimchi, served from a minimum 2-person portion.
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3.5Osegyehyang 오세계향
Osegyehyang is a fully plant-based restaurant tucked into a Gwanhun-dong alleyway near Insadong, running a menu that mixes Korean and Chinese vegan cooking — jjajangmyeon, mul-naengmyeon, and sundubu bibimbap made without meat or animal stock.
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4.3Eulmildae 을밀대
One of the older Pyongyang-style naengmyeon houses in Seoul, in a residential pocket of Yeomni-dong near Gongdeok.
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4.1Piyangok 피양옥
Piyangok is a Pyeongyang-style cold-noodle house — moved from Cheongdam to Apgujeong in 2023 — that Davichi's Kang Min-kyung names her favorite pyeongyang naengmyeon.
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3.9Hamheung Naengmyeon 함흥냉면
A Hamheung-style cold noodle house licensed at this Yeongdeungpo address since 1972.
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3.8Apgujeong Jinju (Hannam) 압구정진주 한남직영점
The Hannam-dong branch of a pork grill built around gabrisal — the thin strip between the neck and the loin, cut so it stays soft — alongside samgyeopsal, moksal and hangjeongsal, all Korean pork portioned at 150g or more.
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4.6Jinyeong Myeonok 진영면옥
Jinyeong Myeonok serves Pyongyang-style naengmyeon at ₩12,000 from a basement room in Doksan-dong, far south of the naengmyeon houses that draw the crowds downtown — and still runs out of seats.
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NCT Haechan4.0Chupungnyeong Kal Samgyeopsal 추풍령칼삼겹살 압구정점
NCT Haechan
A samgyeopsal house off Dosan-daero in Sinsa where the signature is kal-saeng-samgyeopsal at ₩19,000 — thick-cut fresh pork scored before it hits the grill.
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3.7Eulmildae – Mugyo 을밀대 무교점
A downtown branch of Eulmildae, the Pyongyang-style naengmyeon house that started in Mapo.
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