Gyeongju hanok Korean restaurant, jjimdak and two rice swaps: Dongyang
In short
Dongyang Baekban Gyeongju Hwangridan-gil Main Branch is a Korean restaurant in a preserved hanok on Hwangridan-gil in Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk. Lunch was a medium five-color vegetable jjimdak (chicken braised in soy sauce), with beef tartare rice and ttaengcho rice (spicy pepper rice) ordered instead of plain rice; the jjimdak was boneless and spicy with chili oil, and came loaded with potato, corn, eggplant, broccoli, lotus root and glass noodles. For a Korean meal with parents or older family while traveling in Gyeongju, Dongyang Baekban is a safe choice.
Good to know
- Hours
- 11:00–21:00 (break 15:00–17:00)
- Closed
- Thursdays
- Reservations
- Available through Naver Reservation
- Seating
- 3 tables for two, 3 tables for four
- Parking
- No parking lot
- Amenities
- High chair available, separate men's and women's restrooms
- Ordering
- Order and pay at the kiosk
- What we ordered
- Five-color vegetable jjimdak (medium), ttaengcho rice, beef tartare rice
- Review event
- Photo review gets a strawberry ice gyeongdan (1 per person) or a retro lucky draw (1 per table)
- Price reference
- ₩40,000 ≈ $29 · ₩10,000 ≈ $7.2 · ₩5,000 ≈ $3.6 (2026-09-21)
as written by the visitor on Sep 20, 2026
Had lunch at 'Dongyang Baekban Main Branch,' a famous Korean restaurant in Gyeongju's Hwangridan-gil. It started back in 2019 and has since gotten so popular it's opened branches in other regions! Here's my review after a hearty lunch of vegetable jjimdak, beef tartare rice, and land-mine rice.
- ⏰ Hours 11:00–21:00 (break time 3–5pm)
- Closed every Thursday
- ✅ Naver Reservations available
- 👶🏻 High chair available
- 🚻 Gender-separated restrooms
- 🅿️ No parking lot
Where is Dongyang Baekban? Near Hwangnam Market and Skunkworks
Dongyang Baekban, a Korean restaurant on Hwangridan-gil, sits near Skunkworks café and Hwangnam Market. Close to the main street, so it's easy to drop by! With chicken jeongol (hot pot), jjimdak, dakbokkeumtang (spicy braised chicken), and kimchi duruchigi on the menu, it's a good pick to visit with older family members.
This is the entrance to the restaurant!
It's run as a restaurant while keeping the original hanok (traditional Korean house) intact.
Inside the hanok: how many seats does Dongyang Baekban have?
Inside, this Hwangridan-gil Korean restaurant has a clean, modern vibe. Close the door and you can even use it privately. There are 3 tables for two and 3 tables for four.
Dongyang Baekban's menu and kiosk ordering
📋 On the menu board, main dishes include silver mushroom nurungji (scorched rice) black chicken jeongol, dakbokkeumtang (sumi or tomato-cheese), five-color vegetable jjimdak, pork kimchi duruchigi, Hanwoo beef tripe jeongol, and Hanwoo mulhoe (cold raw beef soup). Rice dishes include caviar rice, pollack roe rice, land-mine rice, gamtae (seaweed) rice, beef tartare rice, egg rice, and gondeure (aster) rice. Sides include perilla oil yukjeon (mini or full plate), beef tartare gimbap, cheese tteokgalbi, grilled mackerel, and seasoned crab. Add-on noodles include glass noodles, ramyeon, and udon.
We got the five-color jjimdak, which comes in two sizes. Tap a menu item and the description shows up. Order and pay via kiosk.
- ✅ Ordered: Five-color vegetable jjimdak (medium)
- Land-mine rice
- Beef tartare rice
Receipt review event: strawberry ice gyeongdan or retro lucky draw
🎉 Naver receipt review event: write a photo review of Hwangridan-gil Korean restaurant 'Dongyang Baekban' and get strawberry ice gyeongdan (rice cake, 1 per person) or a memory lucky draw (1 per table).
For the lucky draw prize, 1st place gets ₩40,000 off, 2nd ₩10,000 off, 3rd ₩5,000 off, 4th sikhye (sweet rice drink), and 5th a soft drink.
If broth or side dishes run low, just ask for more. If you want it spicier, they'll give you cheongyang chili flakes. There's a high chair too, if needed.
The side dishes that come with the meal
Four neatly arranged banchan (side dishes) come out along with a bowl of seaweed flakes for mixing. The diced radish kimchi is great with the rice soup!
The medium five-color vegetable jjimdak comes already cooked.
Beef tartare rice and ttaengcho rice instead of plain rice
Instead of plain rice, we tried beef tartare rice and land-mine rice.
The beef tartare rice comes with a hunk of seasoned raw beef, sprinkled with nutty perilla seed powder. We mixed it into the big bowl of rice with seaweed flakes. The beef was fresh and the sesame oil flavor was great. Hwangridan-gil is full of beef tartare bibimbap places, and Dongyang Baekban lets you enjoy a mini version too! It also pairs really well with the jjimdak sauce, haha 😆
My friend picked the land-mine rice, topped with what they call gochujang broth and minced chili. It's chili minced with anchovy, so it's spicy and salty at once. Pretty spicy, so if you can't handle heat, skip this one 🌶️ Mixed together, though, my friend said it really woke up your appetite.
Medium five-color vegetable jjimdak: taste and portion size
The medium five-color vegetable jjimdak arrives already cooked, so you can dig in right away. They also simmered it more for us to reduce the sauce.
It's a soy-sauce jjimdak made spicy with chili oil. Mildly spicy and delicious. It's boneless, so it's easy to eat!
Once you portion it onto your plate, you can see just how packed it is. Potato, corn, eggplant, broccoli, lotus root, and more toppings, plus plenty of glass noodles — you probably don't even need to add extra 👍 The boneless chicken is moist and well seasoned, so tasty!
It's great eaten with rice too. The spicy sauce makes you eat way more rice than usual. The jjimdak portion is quite large, so even without ordering any sides, we were completely full!
The restrooms are gender-separated.
For anyone visiting Gyeongju and looking for a Korean restaurant, I recommend 'Dongyang Baekban Main Branch,' a Hwangridan-gil Korean restaurant.
Where it is
1056-5 Poseok-ro, 1st floor, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea경상북도 경주시 포석로 1056-5 1층 동양백반
