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Yeouido's basement kalguksu legend — the National Assembly's worst-kept lunch secret.

Jinju-jip is Yeouido's basement legend: the kalguksu house beneath the island's office towers whose noodle bowls have fed the National Assembly's staffers, journalists, and the occasional lawmaker for decades — the worst-kept lunch secret in Korean politics, as its billing correctly claims. The formula is the classic myeonok discipline: rich broth, proper hand-cut noodles, kongguksu in summer for the connoisseurs, and portions calibrated to working appetites. The queue at peak lunch is its own institution, moving with practiced speed; off-peak windows (10-11:30, post-2pm) reward the flexible. Sundays dark, otherwise 10-8. Yeouido's dining runs corporate and vertical; the basement noodle den is its horizontal, democratic heart — where the island's power structure waits in the same line as everyone else.