Octopus ramyeon and perilla wraps at a Magok restaurant: Jju Baksa

Found Jju Baksa Magok Branch while looking for dinner after visiting Seoul Botanic Park in Magok!

If you love webfoot octopus, stick around to the end — I found a combination that was honestly way better than just eating the octopus plain.

We ordered the octopus fried rice set with flying fish roe cheese, octopus ramyeon (spicy noodle soup), and odeng soup. The combo of mayonnaise cheonsachae (shredded jellyfish-textured radish), perilla leaf, and roe turned out to be pretty great. Let me walk through the menu, prices, and the combo I loved.

How to get to Jju Baksa Magok Branch, and where to park

Jju Baksa Magok Branch is close to Yangcheon Hyanggyo Station, so it was easy to reach by public transit. It's about 300m from Exit 8, an easy walk.

It also seemed like a good spot to swing by after a date at Balsan Station's Megabox or Seoul Botanic Park.

Jju Baksa Magok Branch

It's near Daebang DMC Tower 2 in Magok-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, about a 3-5 minute walk from Exit 8 of Yangcheon Hyanggyo Station. If you're driving, you can use the Daebang DMC Tower 2 parking lot — the store notice said telling staff after your meal gets you 2.5 hours of free parking.

The hours were pretty long too. When I checked, they were open daily from 11am to 1am the next day — good to know if you need a late dinner or drink spot in Magok.

What Jju Baksa Magok Branch looks like at night

We visited at night, and the red Jju Baksa sign was visible from far away. Inside there were several celebrity autographs on the wall, which were fun to check out.

The vibe wasn't an overly styled date spot — more like a casual Magok restaurant good for spicy food and a drink. It felt right for dinner with friends or for office workers grabbing a meal and drink after work.

Menu and prices: what we ordered at Jju Baksa

The menu was more varied than I expected.

Besides the signature octopus dishes, there was hot plate rose octopus, hot plate octopus-pork belly-shrimp, and hot plate octopus-pork belly. The lunch special was ₩10,000 per the menu photo.

For sides, there was octopus ramyeon at ₩7,000, odeng soup at ₩9,900, and pine sherbet at ₩8,000. Fried rice options included flying fish roe cheese fried rice at ₩4,500, and flying fish roe fried rice or cheese fried rice each at ₩3,500. After going back and forth, we ordered

• Octopus fried rice set + roe cheese
• Octopus ramyeon
• Odeng soup

That's what we settled on. Rather than just eating octopus alone, adding ramyeon and a soup made the meal feel much more filling.

Tablet ordering and in-store events at Jju Baksa Magok Branch

Ordering through the tablet at the table was convenient. With menu photos included, it wasn't hard to choose even on a first visit.

Cheonsachae for when it's spicy!

Eating octopus can make you crave other dishes because of the spice, so it was nice being able to order fried rice, ramyeon, and odeng soup all at once.

From the photos, they were also running a Naver receipt review event and an Instagram hashtag event.

After participating and showing staff, they offered alcohol or a soft drink — but events can change, so it's worth checking with the store at the time of your visit.

The best way to eat Jju Baksa octopus: mayo cheonsachae and perilla wraps

What I liked most that day was, surprisingly, the wrap combination. I put mayonnaise cheonsachae on the octopus, added roe, wrapped it all in a perilla leaf, and ate it in one bite.

It worked really well together. The savory mayonnaise cheonsachae toned down the spicy octopus a bit, and the perilla aroma kept me reaching for more. The roe added a nice popping texture too.

It was more fun switching up combinations like this than just eating octopus plain the whole time. If you're visiting Jju Baksa for the first time, I'd definitely recommend trying this combo once.

Good call ordering the octopus ramyeon too — the spicy broth with octopus in it felt different from regular ramyeon. And the odeng soup was great to have on hand when you want something warm amid all the spicy dishes.

A late dinner after Seoul Botanic Park or Balsan

If you have a dinner plan in Magok or are craving something spicy near Yangcheon Hyanggyo Station, this place is worth a visit.

It's especially convenient as a dinner stop after a date at Seoul Botanic Park or Balsan, and being open late is a bonus.

Next time I go, I'll definitely order the octopus with perilla leaf + roe + mayonnaise cheonsachae combo again. Save this if you didn't know about it — you might just walk right past it otherwise!

Jju Baksa Magok Branch, a Magok restaurant near Seoul Botanic Park and close to Yangcheon Hyanggyo Station. I tried the octopus fried rice set, roe cheese, octopus ramyeon, and odeng soup myself, and the perilla-roe-mayonnaise cheonsachae combo was the best find. So good!