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About
Busan-style bokguk (pufferfish soup) house in Jongno — the businessman's restorative.
Dongnae Bokguk brings Busan's pufferfish tradition to Jongno around the clock: bok-guk in the Dongnae style — the clear, restorative broth where fugu's delicacy meets Korean soup logic — served 24 hours as the businessman's restorative the genre has always been. Pufferfish soup occupies a specific niche in Korean recovery culture: prized for hangover repair and executive-lunch gravitas alike, the clean broth with mubok's firm flesh, dropwort, and bean sprouts reading as both luxury and medicine. Licensed preparation makes the poisson element a formality; the Busan-Dongnae name claims the tradition's source geography. The 24-hour operation serves Jongno's full clock — dawn recoveries, power lunches, midnight resets. Clear broth, serious fish, always open: the restorative, institutionalized.
Local tips
- It has a clear broth, so it’s different from spicy haejangguk.
- Open 24 hours, including early mornings and late at night.
- It’s a specialty pufferfish restaurant, so the fish is prepared by experts.
- Right in the heart of Jongno, at 291 Jongno.
Opening hours
- Sunday
- 00:00–23:59
- Monday
- 00:00–23:59
- Tuesday
- 00:00–23:59
- Wednesday
- 00:00–23:59
- Thursday
- 00:00–23:59
- Friday
- 00:00–23:59
- Saturday
- 00:00–23:59