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Namusairo

21, Sajik-ro 8-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul Gyeongbokgung Palace 10:00-22:00 Hanok Style
Café, well known roasting company

Namusairo means ‘in between the green trees’. In the details of this traditional architecture. By drinking
2002, it first opened near Seoul National University, in excellent coffee and enjoying the architecture, you can
2013, it moved to Gwanghwamun, very close to Gyeong- feel the beauty of time.
bokgung Palace. Namusairo is named one of the best South Korean
Fall in Seoul, golden ginkgo leaves everywhere, independent roastery. It only imports 90+ raw beans,
rows of ginkgo trees as we go to the café, what a nice roast them into medium light, so it provides limited
view. The café is modified from a traditional hanok amount of coffee beans. Namusairo also exports coffee
house; while enjoying coffee you can also look through bens to the US and provides American coffee shops.

SEONGBUK-GU

Alex the Coffee

260-38 Seongbuk-dong, seongbuk-gu, Seoul Hansung University (Transfer 2112/1111 etc.
Bus) 10:00-21:00; Weekends 10:00-22:00 café in the greenhouse; web star

Alex The Coffee is an internet star in Seoul the Red Dot award in 2013. Alex The Coffee has
specialty coffee society. Its strong space design four stores, the ones in Seongbuk and Cheongdam-
and green plants catch people’s eyes. South Korean dong, that mainly sells desserts, the one we went
Q-Grader Alex Choi founded this place in Septem- to is deep inside Seongbuk-dong, although it is not
ber 2013, the first store is a café that stores and close to metro, it doesn’t stop Korean people from
roasts raw beans. Although it is outside of the coming here and loving the place.
Seoul, many people still come and visit it because Each store has its own design, because the
of the greenhouse design; the building even won owner, Alex Choi, thinks that not only it is impor-
tant to drink good coffee, but at the same time,
surrounding elements cannot be ignored, so every-
thing and even music is carefully chosen by Alex,
every detail reflects his character.
The most famous drink in Alex The Coffee is
its cold brew. Filling the specially designed bottle
with the cold brew liquid, the amount of water
added is varied upon a person’s taste, so each of
us can have our own favorite cold brew. Moreover,
Alex The Coffee values the idea of having organic
drinks and desserts, so it promotes organic prod-
ucts from South Korean local farms through the
“Neighborhood Project”. The average amounts of
cups sold daily is 100 cups, roasting around 2kg
per day, mainly medium level.

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