Korean café culture

Korean Cafés and the Search for a Third Place

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Iced Americano and bread on a table inside a Korean café in South Korea

Walk into a café in Seoul on a weekday afternoon, and the first thing you notice may not be the coffee. Someone is working on a laptop.Someone is studying with a textbook and a tablet.Someone is watching a video with earphones.Someone is sitting alone by the window, not doing much at all. To many foreign … Read more

A Quiet Table in a Coffee City

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A premium Korean tea ceremony set featuring high-quality green tea and traditional ceramics, representing the growing luxury K-tea business and wellness investment trends.

Coffee is not disappearing from Korea. That is the first point to make clearly. Korea still has one of the most visible coffee cultures in the world. Cafés are part of daily life in a way that many first-time visitors notice quickly. People buy coffee before work, carry iced Americanos on the subway, study in … Read more