Tteokbokki chicken at a Hongdae restaurant in Seoul: Goobne Red Road
In short
Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road is a chicken restaurant in a side alley off Hongdae's festival street in Mapo, Seoul, with seating from the basement up to the first floor. The new pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken (green onion oil rice-cake chicken) costs 24,000 won and was ordered as a whole bone-in bird with a zero-sugar cola: bright red but not spicy, sweet-and-sour and savory, with chewy rice cakes. For anyone who likes chicken and tteokbokki together, this new menu item at Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road is a safe bet.
Good to know
- Pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken
- 24,000 won (whole bone-in or wings and drumettes)
- Zero-sugar cola
- 3,000 won
- Add-ons
- Extra rice cakes, snow cheese, pa-tteok-chi sauce
- The restaurant
- Basement to first floor, terrace tables, takeout pickup in the basement
- Self-serve bar
- Water, cutlery, side plates, pickled radish, spicy sauce, salt, wet wipes, aprons
- Hours
- Sun–Thu 11:00–02:00 / Fri–Sat 11:00–03:00
- Location
- 10-minute walk from Hongik Univ., Hapjeong or Sangsu Station, in a side alley off Hongdae Festival Street
- Perks
- Free garlic butter wedge potatoes with a Naver coupon; Budweiser draft beer for writing a review
- Price reference
- ₩3,000 ≈ $2.2 · ₩24,000 ≈ $17.5 (2026-09-23)
as written by the visitor on Sep 24, 2026
I go to Hongdae more often than you'd expect (I live in Sangbong and work in Pangyo, so it's basically a triangle commute to get there too, haha) and I noticed a new spot I hadn't seen before — turned out to be Goobne. Been a while since I had good Goobne, so I ran over there right away! Visited Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road, a Hongdae favorite.
An outdoor-drinking vibe Hongdae favorite, Goobne Red Road / new menu pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken
Where is Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road, and which station is closest?
Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road sits on a side street inside Hongdae Festival Street. It's about a 10-minute walk from Hongik Univ. Station (lines 2, Gyeongui-Jungang, and the Airport Railroad), Hapjeong Station (lines 2 and 6), or Sangsu Station (line 6). It's right near the big, hard-to-miss Goobne Playtown sign on Red Road, so it wasn't actually that hard to find.
Basement to first floor, with terrace seats for outdoor drinking
The store spans the basement to the first floor, and takeout customers pick up in the basement. The first floor was packed with tables — the place is huge and spacious, with front and back doors open on both sides, which kept it feeling really breezy.
There are tables set up on the terrace too, so you can really lean into that outdoor-drinking mood while eating chicken. We sat inside on the first floor, where a huge projector screen was playing girl group music videos, so the atmosphere was upbeat and fun.
What's on the self-serve bar at Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road
At the self-serve bar you can freely pour your own water and grab tableware, side plates, pickled radish, and more. Spicy sauce, salt, wet wipes, aprons — all fully stocked!
Zero-sugar cola, ₩3,000. Chicken and soda, always the move!! Life is good with zero cola by your side... hitting chicken and cola in broad daylight was extremely satisfying.
What is the new pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken?
⭐Seoul Eomma⭐ Pa-gireum Tteokbokki Chicken, ₩24,000. A premium recipe from chef Woo Jeong-uk of Seoul Eomma! Sweet-and-spicy savory flavor with a subtle green onion aroma! A perfect match of chewy rice cake and moist oven-baked chicken!
The pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken is a new menu item created jointly by Goobne and chef Woo Jeong-uk of Seoul Eomma from Culinary Class Wars 2 — a Korean food master with 30 years of experience. It's a new combination of Superpan's signature Korean-beef-fat tteokbokki and Goobne's oven-roasted chicken.
Ordering the whole bone-in chicken for 24,000 won
Oven-roasted chicken with the deep flavor of green onion oil in the sauce, and juicy, tender meat as the main draw! You can order it as a whole bone-in bird or as wingettes and drumettes — I hadn't had a whole roasted chicken in a while, so I went with the bone-in version and dug in properly with two forks.
The chewy rice cakes were piled in generously, giving great texture with a satisfying chew. Depending on your taste, you can add extra rice cake, snow cheese, or pa-tteok-chi sauce. Lets you enjoy even more varied flavors!
How does the pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken taste, and is it spicy?
The sauce on the pa-gireum tteokbokki chicken had a sweet-and-savory appeal that pretty much anyone would like, no love-it-or-hate-it about it. The color is super bright red, but it's not spicy — which made it even better! It's not aggressively hot, so the nuttiness of the green onion oil comes through nicely and the savory flavor just explodes in your mouth...
Goobne's signature clean, moist oven-roasted chicken paired with well-seasoned, chewy rice cakes makes eating chicken and rice cake together genuinely fun. If you like the chicken-and-tteokbokki combo, this is a match made in heaven — impossible not to love.
Before you go: coupons, review perks and opening hours
Using the Naver coupon gets you free garlic butter wedge potatoes, and writing a review gets you a Budweiser draft, so keep that in mind when you go. Thanks to the friendly owner, I got to enjoy my chicken in a relaxed, comfortable way. Definitely coming back Highly recommend Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road, a Hongdae favorite!!
- Goobne Chicken Hongdae Red Road hours
- Sun–Thu 11:00 AM – 2:00 AM
- Fri–Sat 11:00 AM – 3:00 AM
Where it is
17 Jandari-ro 2-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea (basement and 1st floor)서울특별시 마포구 잔다리로2길 17 지하1층, 지상1층
