Cheap eats in Seongsu, Seoul: 7 places (October 2026)
7 restaurants in the Korea on a Plate guide for cheap eats in Seongsu, ranked Monthly 30 first and then by Google rating. Each has hours, a price per person and what to order.
In this guide: Minjeong Sikdang Main branch, Damsot Seongsu branch, Deirit, Songrim Sikdang, Yuworui Bori (June Barley).
At a glance: Price per person ₩9,800–₩14,800 (middle ₩12,000). Average Google rating ★4.2. 0 of 7 are open late or 24 hours.
Updated 2026-10-05
Tips before you go
Seongsu is a former factory district turned cafés and pop-up stores, around Seongsu station on Line 2.
Menu prices already include VAT, and tipping is not expected.
Minjeong Sikdang's main branch in Jayang-dong, near Konkuk University, is listed on DiningCode for seolleongtang and boiled-beef hot pot. The menu also has ox-head gomtang, beef knee soup, mixed boiled beef, seafood chive pancake, dumplings and seasonal naengmyeon. Reviewers most often describe it as unpretentious, lively and popular with locals.
Damsot serves sotbap, rice cooked in individual pots, close to Seongsu Station. Toppings include eggplant, spicy eggplant with cheese, steak, beef with bean sprouts, abalone, garlic scapes and shishito pepper with tofu, priced ₩12,000–₩18,000. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, casual, unpretentious and generous.
START WITHGaji Sotbap · rice cooked in an individual pot with eggplant
Deirit is a fusion Korean restaurant a short walk from Ttukseom Station, listed on DiningCode for flame-grilled jokbal. The menu mixes aged-kimchi beef tartare and hanu rolls, jokbal noodles, jambon cream noodles, a pepperoni-cheese potato pancake and mango-mustard chicken nanban. Reviewers most often describe it as casual, pretty and clean.
START WITHJikhwa Jokbal Noodle · noodles with flame-grilled pork trotters
Songrim Sikdang near Konkuk University is listed on DiningCode as a gisa sikdang, a diner built around taxi drivers' quick meals, known for pork bulgogi baekban. The short menu adds blood sausage hangover soup, kimchi stew and soybean paste stew. Reviewers most often call it down-to-earth, good value, lively and generous with portions.
START WITHDwaeji bulgogi baekban · pork bulgogi with rice and side dishes
A Korean restaurant near Konkuk University serving a pot-rice (sotbap) set meal, beef-bone kalguksu with a mini barley-rice bowl, spicy flame-stir-fried octopus and crispy seafood pancake, plus house makgeolli. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, down-to-earth, popular with locals and somewhat formal.
START WITHSotbap Hansang · pot rice with side dishes
Jeongseon Buttumak is a restaurant near Seoul Forest listed on DiningCode for gondeure-bap and kimchi-jjim. The gondeure rice set (₩10,000) sits alongside kimchi-jjim (₩14,000), spicy or sweet pork back ribs (₩24,000 each) and braised semi-dried pollock; DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, casual and down-to-earth.
START WITHGondeure-bap · rice cooked with gondeure thistle greens
Sonyeo Bangatgan near Seoul Forest in Seongsu is listed on DiningCode for jipbap, everyday home cooking, and sannamul bap, rice with wild mountain greens. The menu also offers pollock roe bibimbap, bulgogi rice with pickles, vegetable nutrition rice, chili-flake stir-fried pork and snail doenjang stew. Reviewers most often call it clean, casual, down-to-earth and quiet.
START WITHSannamul bap · rice with wild mountain greens
Which restaurants in Korea are good for cheap eats in Seongsu?
In this guide: Minjeong Sikdang Main branch, Damsot Seongsu branch, Deirit, Songrim Sikdang, Yuworui Bori (June Barley).
Which is the cheapest here?
Sonyeo Bangatgan (Girl's Mill), about ₩9,800 per person.
Which has the highest Google rating?
Damsot Seongsu branch: ★4.7 from 130 reviews.
How were these chosen?
Every place is in the Korea on a Plate guide, written by an editor who runs four restaurants in Seoul. The list is filtered from published hours, prices and tags; nobody pays to be listed.
