Weekend family dinner at Gwangmyeong jjukkumi restaurant Jeongipum

A Gwangmyeong IKEA-area favorite: Jeongipum Jjukkumi Gwangmyeong 1st Branch

Dinner after IKEA shopping in Gwangmyeong: Jeongipum Jjukkumi

If you're looking for somewhere to eat after IKEA shopping near Gwangmyeong Station, I want to recommend Jeongipum Jjukkumi, a local favorite among Gwangmyeong Station residents! This time I visited with my parents, and the octopus (jjukkumi) was so fresh and the sauce was delicious. I especially loved combining all the side dishes into one wrap! My parents said it was the best jjukkumi they'd ever had outside home — 100% return visit intention, a true Gwangmyeong Station favorite.

Where is Jeongipum Jjukkumi, and is there parking?

Jeongipum Jjukkumi is located on the 1st floor of the AK Plaza building in Iljik-dong, near Gwangmyeong Station. It's close to Gwangmyeong IKEA, so it's great for a meal after shopping. Especially for a family outing, easy parking matters, and the lot here is quite spacious with 2 hours of free parking — very convenient!

What makes the jjukkumi different: shell-caught octopus and seasonal minari

Jeongipum Jjukkumi is a chain, but I heard the Gwangmyeong 1st Branch learned its technique directly from the uncle who runs the 20-year-old original location. They use high-quality whelk-shell-farmed jjukkumi, considered among the best octopus available domestically, and source seasonal minari (water celery) directly from farms!

It was a weekend evening, and the place was packed with couples on dates, people celebrating wedding invitations, and families with kids. If you need to wait, you register on Catch Table.

If you're planning to eat out, I recommend Naver Reservation. You can book until 6:30pm, and since I reserved ahead, everything was already set up when I arrived.

Jeongipum Jjukkumi menu and prices

The base dish at this Gwangmyeong Station favorite is the hot plate jjukkumi for ₩15,000. The main event is loading it up with meat add-ons — black pork belly (kkotsamgyeop) or Black Angus beef belly. We ordered the best-seller loaded with minari, jjukkumi, and meat — if it's your first visit, I recommend this one!!

There's also a lunch special — if this place were near my office, I'd probably come often, haha. Reviews praise the garlic corn cheese!!

When you visit with a reservation, the side dishes are pre-set: cabbage salad, sesame leaves, pickled radish, bean sprouts, flying fish roe, white sauce, and cold seaweed soup. Since jjukkumi comes seasoned, the sides are chosen to go well with it.

Both the owners and staff are young, and the restaurant is kept spotlessly clean. There's also a table kiosk that's handy for requesting things during busy hours! Staff refilled empty side dishes quickly, and the overall service was fast and friendly.

Black pork belly hot plate jjukkumi at medium spice

The jjukkumi sauce comes in 3 spice levels: mild / medium (Shin Ramyun level) / hot. I debated going mild for the sake of my partner, who can't handle spicy food, but ended up ordering medium — and yeah, haha, this is the level you need for it to really taste good. It's actually not that spicy, so even spice-wimps can handle it fine!

Once the pork belly, jjukkumi, and minari simmering on the hot plate wilt down, a staff member comes to stir-fry it for you! Something to check for when dining out with family — you get to just focus on eating, which is why a lot of parents bring their kids here. This jjukkumi spot even has baby chairs ready.

How to eat the jjukkumi: sesame leaf wrap, step by step

They show you the best way to eat it — kiosk screen on, follow the order, haha. Make sure jjukkumi goes on last!! If you put it on first, your hands get burned, hahaha.

On the rough side of a sesame leaf: seaweed > bean sprouts > pickled radish > jjukkumi > flying fish roe > white sauce, all wrapped together — wow, it's seriously delicious, hahaha.

The white sauce is especially the kicker!! Adding the smooth sauce to the spicy jjukkumi seasoning mellows out the heat while making the flavor richer! It's not regular mayonnaise, so it's not greasy either. The flying fish roe pops here and there — eating jjukkumi as a wrap made it even tastier!

The most important thing is fresh ingredients and sauce — it's a different flavor from what you'd make at home, with just the right savory depth, and the sauce really soaks into the jjukkumi and pork belly. Especially with plenty of minari added, its aroma paired wonderfully with the chewy jjukkumi!!

The rice cake add-on was also a surprisingly nice touch, haha. There were quite a few cartilage bits in the black pork, so if you're eating with kids, I'd recommend cutting it up first.

And the biggest service win — free steamed egg custard?? Given how much eating out costs these days, that was honestly touching. At most barbecue places, egg custard usually costs ₩3,000, but here they give a giant steamed egg custard free at every table!!

Hot plate fried rice: minari with flying fish roe, and cheese

The jjukkumi sauce itself is so tasty that you can't not get fried rice, haha. And if you join the review event, you get one fried rice free per person — definitely take part! But honestly, it's genuinely delicious, so writing the review is a pleasure, haha.

We ordered one portion of minari flying fish roe fried rice and one portion of cheese fried rice — two total. Definitely add the cheese, haha — that stretchy cheese pull is the kicker.

And a tip from the staff! It's even better wrapped in seaweed, haha. I thought there's no way we'd finish all this fried rice, but we scraped up every last crispy bit stuck to the pan.

Jeongipum Jjukkumi, located in Gwangmyeong's AK Plaza, served generous portions with above-average flavor, making me want to come back again. A jjukkumi restaurant with a unique wrap-and-eat style — I recommend it for tonight's dinner out :)