Shinseon Suljip Dowon sits on floors 2–4 of 33 Achasan-ro 33-gil, 225 m from Konkuk University Station Exit 2

Shinseon Suljip Dowon (신선술집도원) is a Korean gastropub 225 m — about a 4-minute walk — from Exit 2 of Konkuk University Station. It opens seven days a week and closes at 5 a.m.

The walk to the station is middling for this block. Across 138 gastropubs in Hwayang-dong, the median distance to a station is 231.5 m, and 225 m ranks 64th closest.

Having no parking is normal here. Only 5 of the 138 (4%) list parking.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon ends 45 of its 56 prices in 800 won

Sorting the 56 prices by their last three digits, 80% land on 800.

45 of 56 items (80%) end in 800 won. The ladder runs 15,800 · 16,800 · 17,800 · 18,800 · 19,800 — steps of 1,000 won.

Ending in 800 says nothing about whether a price is high or low.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon hangs 9 items on the single price of 19,800 won

Ranking the prices that carry more than one item, 19,800 won stands alone.

One price — 19,800 won — carries 9 items. Listed as they appear on the menu: 꼬리 불족발 (braised pig's trotter, tail cut) · 족살수육 (boiled pork) · 오삼 산더미콩불 · 들기름 이면수구이 (perilla-oil grilled fish) · 차돌 순두부 냉이 된장전골 · 족살수육 전골 · 차돌 육개장 전골 · 순대 술국 · 미나리 대패삼겹과 파절이. We keep the Korean names rather than translating them — translating a dish name would assert a species or cut we have not verified.

※ Prices are reproduced in won exactly as the menu posts them. 1,000 won was about US$0.74 on 15 September 2026; 19,800 won was about US$14.69.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon's 56 menu items make it the 3rd-largest menu in Hwayang-dong

Set against the block's gastropubs, the menu is near the top and the prices sit in the middle.

Third-largest menu, but a mid-block median price. It ranks 46th of 106, and sits 1,100 won above the block median of 15,700 won.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon's 159 strength votes spread from 34 to 44 across four fields

Customers on Kakao Map cast 159 strength votes, and with parking set aside the remaining four fields are nearly level.

Set parking aside and the four fields fall between 34 and 44 votes. The gap between the highest and lowest is 10 votes.

159 votes ranks 4th among the 116 places that have any strength votes. The median across those 116 is 14 votes.

Four level fields do not mean "good." This table shows which field people pressed, not a score. The 4.1 rating ranks 70th among the 128 places with a rating, where the median is 4.3.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon leads 7 of the Naver review keywords, while food and service sit exactly at the 9-bar median

Naver Place lets visitors tick preset keywords. These are not star ratings or written reviews — they are counts of how many people pressed each option. Shinseon Suljip Dowon has 22,110 such votes, the highest among the 9 bars we have covered; the median is 3,994.

Seven keywords rank 1st, and all seven are about the room rather than the food — menu range, portion size, cosiness, freshness, private rooms, photographs, view.

Food and service match the median of the 9 bars to the decimal. Food at 22.82% and staff at 6.59% are both the median figure and both rank 5th. That may be because this bar sets the median — its 22,110 votes are the largest of the nine.

"Private rooms are well set up" has a median of 0.00% across the nine. Eight of the nine carry almost no votes on that option; this one has 815, and the second-highest is 0.74%.

The votes point the same way as the rest of this record. All four retrieved blog posts mention private rooms and group dinners, the bar describes itself with hanok and a 4th floor, and it closes at 5 a.m.

We do not print ratios against a near-zero median. "Good view" works out to 179.8 times the median of 0.01%, but that figure exists only because the other eight bars have no votes in that field. Share and the runner-up value are printed instead.

The 9 bars are the ones we have written records for, not every bar in Hwayang-dong. Hwayang-dong alone has 126 places registered as gastropubs.

Keyword labels are translated here for reading. The options are offered in Korean only, so the Korean original is printed beside each line.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon opens seven days and closes at 5 a.m.

There are four schedules: doors at 4 p.m. on weekdays and 3 p.m. on weekends, closing split between 5 and 6 a.m.

There is no closing day. And there are four different schedules.

Staying open past midnight is not unusual on this block. Of the 123 places that post hours, 112 close after midnight. This one closes at the later end of that group.

Shinseon Suljip Dowon's 1,005 blog posts rank 3rd among 126 in Hwayang-dong

What has accumulated puts it near the top of the block, yet the shop has uploaded no photos of its own.

The shop uploaded 0 photos, and there are 3,107. Everything that accumulated came from customers and the review side.

All 4 blog posts we retrieved about Shinseon Suljip Dowon mention private rooms and group dinners

Kakao Map links 1,005 blog posts, but only the 4 most recent expose a URL whose body we can open. We pulled those 4 bodies and counted how many posts a word appears in.

These 4 are not a sample. They are the 4 most recent posts Kakao Map hands over — not posts we chose — and they do not represent the 1,005.

The control words came back 0. Words that should not appear in these bodies (spacecraft, volcanic eruption, Antarctica) appeared 0 times across all 4, so we use the count.

What the brand says about itself — hanok and a fourth floor

Shinseon Suljip Dowon runs its own site (dowon.jalib.site). In its own words, on its own screen:

• "Hanok concept" — listing "hanok-style private rooms" and "hanok-style hall" separately
• "Fusion Korean set-menu"
• "★4th floor now open★"

Kakao Map carries 10 tags on this place: good value · Konkuk University bar · private-room pub · good atmosphere · fusion Korean · private-room bar · matchmaking date · chobok menu pick · friends' gathering · group dinner venue.

The above is what the shop wrote and what the map carries as tags. It is not something we verified.

The judgment we draw — a room for a group, and the food is not what separates it

Judgment ① For a private room, this is the place. Private rooms are well set up (룸이 잘 되어있어요) at 3.69% ranks 1st of the nine bars, and the median is 0.00% — eight of the nine carry almost no votes on that option, and the second-highest is 0.74%. All four blog posts we retrieved talk about rooms and group dinners.

Judgment ② For sharing dishes in a group, this is the place. Menu is well put together (메뉴 구성이 알차요) at 12.84% and Portions are large (양이 많아요) at 9.48% both rank 1st, with the second-placed bars at 5.41% and 1.99%. The 56 priced items rank 3rd among the 106 places in Hwayang-dong that post prices.

Judgment ③ If you are choosing by taste, this record does not separate it. Food tastes good (음식이 맛있어요) at 22.82% is the same figure as the median of the nine and ranks 5th.

Judgment ④ For staying out late, this is the place. It opens all seven days and closes at 5 a.m.

Where this judgment can move — ①, ② and ③ are shares of review keywords and they shift as votes accumulate (figures retrieved 2026-10-02). This bar's 22,110 votes are the most of the nine, so it pulls the median upward. The 56 items in ② are what the menu posts; whether all of them are actually served we did not confirm.

When Shinseon Suljip Dowon becomes a candidate — late, in a group, sharing dishes, in Hwayang-dong

Everything counted above, collected in one place. We do not make the call. We write down what would decide it.

It becomes a candidate when:

• You are staying late. Seven days to 5 a.m., and 6 a.m. on Friday and Saturday
• You are a group sharing dishes. The 9 items at 19,800 won — the middle of the price range — are stews, boiled pork and trotters, the kind you split. All 4 blog posts we retrieved mention private rooms and group dinners
• You want to budget first. 45 of 56 prices end in 800 won, and 28 items sit between 15,800 and 19,800 won
• You are walking. 225 m from Konkuk University Station Exit 2, about 4 minutes

It does not become a candidate when:

• You are driving — there is no parking. Of Hwayang-dong's gastropubs, 5 of 138 list parking
• You are eating alone and lightly — only 14 of 56 items come in under 10,000 won, and most of those are drinks and noodles
• You are going during the day — doors open at 4 p.m. on weekdays, 3 p.m. even on weekends
• You are going by rating alone — 4.1 ranks 70th among the 128 places with a rating

Three reasons we wrote up Shinseon Suljip Dowon

1. The shape of 45 prices ending in 800 caught our eye. How a menu is built shows up in a single number. One price — 19,800 won — carries 9 items. 2. We pulled all 138 Hwayang-dong gastropubs before choosing. Not a sample but the whole set, and we confirmed the control group returned 0 before counting anything. 3. There is exactly 1 place in the country with this name. Searching Kakao Map nationwide for "신선술집도원" returns 1 place whose name starts with that stem — not a branch of a chain. What we write up are independent neighborhood businesses.

We have no stake in this. We received nothing for this article and did not contact the shop. We pulled the map and counted.

Control group — where a different way of counting changes the answer

The same figure means different things depending on what was counted. We write those places down here.

"112 of 123 close after midnight" depends on how you count. Places closing at 24:00 or 00:00 are not counted as crossing midnight. Counting them that way sweeps in places that only open during the day.

"45 prices ending in 800" counts only items that have a price. Kakao returns −1 for an empty price field; count that as a price and you invent items costing 0 won. We counted only fields greater than 0, and this place had no −1 fields.

Prices are in won, exactly as the menu posts them. The conversion to dollars appears once, in a footnote, with no per-dish conversion, because rates move.

How we counted — Shinseon Suljip Dowon

Three sources sit behind this article.

• We did not cut a sample. We pulled 627 places across 7 categories in Hwayang-dong; 138 of them are gastropubs
• A missing price comes back as −1. We counted only fields greater than 0 as prices
• Strength ids map differently by industry. We pulled strength_description alongside the ids and confirmed 5 = taste, 1 = value, 2 = service, 3 = atmosphere, 4 = parking before assigning them
• "0 reviews" and "reviews unreadable" were counted separately. This place had no unreadable fields
• We neither stored nor reproduced blog bodies. We kept only the count of posts a word appears in

Confirmed figures — Shinseon Suljip Dowon

What we could not confirm — Shinseon Suljip Dowon

• Whether the 9 items at 19,800 won are the same portion. Only the price matches; the map carries no portion size
• When the "4th floor now open" happened. The official site carries no date
• How many private rooms there are and how many each seats. Neither the map nor the official site gives a number
• How to reserve. The map lists no booking channel
• How to pay. The map carries nothing
• Whether you can smoke. The facilities field simply shows no smoking room; whether smoking is allowed inside is unconfirmed
• Where the gap between a 4.1 rating and 159 strength votes comes from
• What the full set of 1,005 blog posts looks like. We retrieved 4

Sources

• Kakao Map place list — gastropub queries anchored on Konkuk University Station, 138 with a Hwayang-dong lot address, control group 0 (2026-09-15)
• Kakao Map place detail — all 138 Hwayang-dong gastropubs, 0 failures (2026-09-15)
• Kakao Map blog posts — bodies of the 4 most recent with an openable URL, words only (2026-09-15)
• Shinseon Suljip Dowon official site — https://dowon.jalib.site/ (2026-09-15)
• Kakao Map nationwide search — stem "신선술집도원", 1 place whose name begins with it (2026-09-15)
• Exchange rate — exchangerate-api.com, 15 September 2026. 1,000 won ≈ US$0.74

Prices and hours are as of 15 September 2026 and can change. Check the map before you go.