Weekday dinner Korean BBQ by Seokchon Lake with Terra beer: Yukmong

Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch — Korean BBQ for group dinners near Seokchon Lake | a date spot near Seokchon Lake

• 12:00 - 24:00
• ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ ᴛɪᴍᴇ 15:00 - 17:00 (no break on weekends)
• ᴘᴀʀᴋɪɴɢ ( ᴏ )

This time I visited a Bangi-dong spot ˗ˋˏ Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch ˎˊ- I already have a favorite Korean BBQ place I go to all the time, but this one was good enough to rival it. Here's my honest review ✿ܓ

Walking to Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch from Songpanaru Station, plus parking

Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch is 498m from Exit 2 of Songpanaru Station. If you're driving, about 4 spots are available right in front of the restaurant.

Basement to 2nd floor: rooms for group dinners at Yukmong Bangi

Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch is a pretty big Korean BBQ restaurant near Seokchon Lake, spanning basement to second floor, so it's a good option for group dinners, and there's a private room space set up in the basement. Even on a weekday evening, the tables were pretty packed — if we'd come a little later we might have had to wait .ᐟ

The overall interior is calm, so rather than a loud, bustling BBQ joint, it feels a bit cleaner and more upscale — great for family meals or gatherings too .ᐟ.ᐟ.ᐟ

What the couple ordered at Yukmong Bangi, and what it cost

• Hanwoo... Handon Pork Sampler Set ₩69,900
• Caviar cheese egg custard ₩13,000
• Mul naengmyeon ₩9,000
• Terra beer ₩6,000

This is what we ordered as a couple ~ ෆ You can order easily using the table order tablet at each table.

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Yukmong's side dishes, including seasoned raw crab

Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch lays out a full spread of basic side dishes and sauces.

• Sauces: fish tamarind sauce, ssamjang, onion sauce, Maldon salt, fresh wasabi, Yukmong pickled ginger
• Side dishes: spicy mala cucumber salad, radish salad with fish roe seasoning, lettuce and scallion salad, vegetable and mushroom japchae, seasoned raw crab, kelp + seaweed + vinegar-gochujang sauce

The table legs were basically buckling under just the side dishes ~ getting seasoned crab as a basic side dish is real .ᐣ Recommend this as a Korean BBQ spot near Seokchon Lake. There was even japchae, which I love, so I was so happy ٩₍ᐢ. ◞ . ᐢ₎۶

What's in the 69,900-won Handon pork sampler set

The pork sampler set includes 300g of snowflake pork neck, 150g of rib pork belly, 100g of whole skirt meat, plus a doenjang stew. The sampler set lets you try several cuts from pork neck to belly to skirt meat, and it comes with doenjang stew too — perfect set menu for us stew-lovers .ᐟ

The moment the meat showed up, I was shocked at the color first. Even at a glance, the cuts look thick, and you can tell the texture looks good even raw — you can feel it just from the photo ,, 𖤐

Tableside grilling service: staff cook each cut for you

One thing I really liked about Yukmong was that a staff member grills the meat for you. With meat this thick, it would be such a waste to miss the timing grilling it yourself .ᐣ Here, staff grill each cut according to what it needs, so we just got to sit back and eat ㆅ

They grilled the pork neck first — and wow, pork neck is already my favorite cut, but this was genuinely legendary. One bite in, I thought of my favorite BBQ place, and honestly this one holds up against it. My husband, who's usually a pork belly guy, said the pork neck was the best thing that day .ᐣ

There were so many sauces to pair with it that dipping into a different one each time meant we never got tired of it ~~ Plus at 550g the portion was generous, and from the belly to the skirt meat, there wasn't a single bad cut to be found ..ᢉ𐭩

The signature doenjang stew included in the set

The doenjang stew that comes with the set menu. We always need stew or cold noodles when eating meat, so we were happy the set included stew. It's loaded with tofu, bean sprouts, and other ingredients, and the broth is rich too — this place is good at stew as well (ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣﹏ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣)

Caviar cheese egg custard, 13,000 won

The caviar cheese egg custard is ₩13,000. And honestly, there was no way we weren't ordering this just for the visuals. I was expecting a typical BBQ-joint egg custard, but the look of this one shocked me a second time. The cheese melts and covers the top of the custard, so it's soft, savory, all of it ( ˃̵⌓˂̵)

And they put caviar on top of it too... the caviar on top pops as you chew it, and it was definitely more unique and tasty than the egg custard I usually eat.

My husband and I both kept saying it was delicious the whole time we were eating it.

Finishing with mul naengmyeon (9,000 won) and a Terra beer

Mul naengmyeon is ₩9,000, and Terra beer is ₩6,000. After eating meat, you can't skip finishing with naengmyeon. A classic mul naengmyeon with ice floating in the cold broth, topped with meat, egg, and cucumber.

We said we were full, but then left a piece of meat to eat with the noodles, and somehow there was room for it after all. Meat followed by mul naengmyeon really is the truth.

And topping it all off with a beer 🍻🍻 pure bliss

Who should book Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch?

What I liked most wasn't just the quality of the meat — it was the tableside grilling service where staff cook it for you. The restaurant is also big, spanning basement to second floor, with private rooms available, so it's great for dates and family meals, as well as anyone looking for a group dinner spot near Seokchon Lake. If you're looking for a Bangi-dong Korean BBQ restaurant near Seokchon Lake, Yukmong Bangi Direct Branch is a place I'd want to come back to on a day I really want to eat well.