Chungmuro Station noodle restaurant with roe kalguksu: Nagwon-ui Soba

Nagwon-ui Soba Bossam Kalguksu Chungmuro Station Main Branch sells more than just soba — think bossam kalguksu, roe hot pot, stir-fried roe and milt, and more. The full name of the place is actually Nagwon-ui Soba Bossam Kalguksu.

Just my personal take, but during lunch hours it seems like a great spot for the handmade-noodle soba sets — lemon soba, cheongyang tomato soba — while in the evening it feels more like a place for a drink alongside assorted jeon (savory pancakes), boiled pork, and local specialty fruit wine. But honestly, what stood out most was how kind the owner was — I felt good from the moment I sat down until the moment I left!

Where is Nagwon-ui Soba Chungmuro Station branch, and where do you park?

Here's the exterior. Nagwon-ui Soba Chungmuro Station branch is on the second floor of a building along the main road toward Chungmu Elementary School, right by Exit 1 of Chungmuro Station. For parking, there's a public lot nearby.

Along the path into the restaurant, there's a whole run of the owner's career highlights posted up — media features, interviews in articles and magazines — so I was already excited before I'd even eaten anything.

Inside the hall: group dinners and solo meals both work

Here's what the inside looks like. Nagwon-ui Soba Chungmuro Station branch runs a much wider hall than you'd expect from the outside.

With such an open floor plan, it seems great for big lunch or dinner group parties of 12 to 20 people. When I visited, there were several people eating solo, plus office workers grabbing a simple dinner and a drink after work.

What's on the menu at Nagwon-ui Soba

True to the restaurant's full name, Nagwon-ui Soba Bossam Kalguksu, they serve a wide range of soba dishes alongside bossam, boiled pork, and kalguksu options.

I liked that there were distinctive options like lemon soba and cheongyang tomato soba, plus solid drinking-food options like stir-fried roe and milt, so there's something to suit every taste.

Takeout and delivery from Nagwon-ui Soba

While we were eating, takeout and delivery orders kept coming in nonstop, so I checked the delivery app —

and sure enough, it's a Chungmuro delivery favorite you can enjoy comfortably from home or the office. The rating relative to order volume is brutally good — prices match dine-in, and the minimum order amount is low, which is a nice bonus.

Side dishes: two kinds of kimchi

If you're eating in, they give you two kinds of kimchi as banchan (side dishes). Both were seriously delicious!!! Maybe because they're a kalguksu specialist, but that garlic kimchi was genuinely amazing.

Pollock hoe makguksu, the dish to order first

This is the pollock hoe makguksu (cold buckwheat noodles with raw seasoned pollock) my sibling ordered. Just the name alone — pollock hoe plus makguksu — is a combo that can't miss, and once mixed with the sauce and taken for a first bite,

it was genuinely amazing. I loved the chewiness of the noodles themselves, but the umami from the pollock hoe combined with the sauce was so good it made my eyes go wide.

Personally, I think this is a must-order if you visit Nagwon-ui Soba Chungmuro Station branch. I mean it.

Alttang kalguksu: noodles in spicy fish stew broth

This is the roe kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup with fish roe and milt) I ordered. As you can see, it's packed with roe and milt to the point where it's hard to believe it's kalguksu. I expected a jang-kalguksu-style broth, but it was more like sipping spicy fish stew broth, which I actually liked even more.

Along with the roe and milt, they also give you a separate dipping sauce, which made it seem like great drinking food too. The kind of vibe where you stop by alone after work or after a school exam, eat solo, and have a drink...

I loved the noodles too. Since I ate the roe and milt first, the broth had really soaked into the noodles by the time I got to them, but they kept that chewy texture, which I loved!

A platter of bossam boiled to order

This is the bossam. It's made in-house using fresh raw pork boiled fresh, and they put together a solid full platter.

What stood out was that it came out warm, as if freshly boiled,

and with two kinds of kimchi plus a bit of pollock hoe to go with it, there were plenty of ways to enjoy it.

The bossam meat was clean with no gamey smell, even eaten plain, and clearly boiled with care and softness — a well-made bossam.

But it tasted even better topped with the pollock hoe or paired with the kimchi that came alongside. Personally, I thought pairing it with kimchi was genuinely the best — that slight sharpness really cut through the richness!

Nagwon-ui Soba Chungmuro Station branch also gives you wrap greens to go with the bossam order,

and wrapping it up together made it even better. The flavors all coming together into one.

+ Lay down a perilla leaf, then lettuce, add the pollock hoe makguksu on top, then pile on the bossam pork with lots of garlic and chili and eat it all in one wrap. It genuinely made me crave a drink. The kind of flavor that makes you scrunch up your face.

Is Nagwon-ui Soba worth it near Chungmuro Station?

Being located right in front of Chungmuro Station is a real strength, whether it's a solo lunch or an evening group dinner. On top of that, the owner is incredibly kind and has been interviewed by various media outlets, which guarantees the quality, and with the prices being this affordable, it naturally feels like great value for money.

Recommended as a great-value restaurant in Chungmuro.