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15th Seoul International

Cafe Show

This year from October 10th to October
13th, The 15th Seoul Int’l Cafe Show, Asian big-
gest international exhibition, was held in Con-
vention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in Seoul,
South Korea. Sponsored by International coffee
Organization (ICO), this annual exhibition
demonstrated a lot of new opportunities and
industry trends for coffee, tea and ice cream
in Asia and around the globe.
Exhibition covered an area of 36,000
square meters, having 580 exhibitors from 41
countries and 150,730 visitors. At the same
time, several public talks and seven different
international coffee competition, like Korea
Barista Championship、World Latte Art
Battle、World Signature Battle etc..

Close look at the competitions

Latte Art Championship Signature Championship
st
st
1 Lee Hae-kyung 1 Go Eun-mi
nd
2 nd Um Paul 2 rd Park Yeong-bin
3 rd Choi Won-jae 3 Lee Ji-hoon

Winner of Latte Art championship/winner Creative drinks Championship(both photos are taken from CoffeeTV)

High-tech The exhibition was
divided into 3 areas: food and beverage
equipment, tea and roasting, specialty
coffee and coffee equipment; each of big
international brands’ stands presented
new products. While technology and
automation are still a hot topics in the
coffee world.
Sustainable development The
theme of this year’s Café Show is “Thank
you, Coffee”, which focused our atten-
tion on climate change and reducing the
environmental harm during production; in-
crease of coffee fare trade gives us all hope.

World Coffee Leader Forum
Chairman of WCE, Michael Yung, chair-
man of IWCA, Mery Santos, SCAA science
research leader, Emma Sage, three cham-
pions of 2014-2016 WBC, Hidenori Izaki,
Sasa Sestic, Wu Zelin, and others gathered
together to share their experience and their
thoughts with an audience.

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