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Drink Your Seoul
Drink Your Seoul
Drink Your Seoul

Discovering new places in never-sleeping
coffee scene.

S outh Korea is famous for many fairly young, but extremely popular. The Gyeongbokgung

interest in specialty coffee and gaining
things like the fastest internet,
best cosmetics, K-Pop, TV dra-
mas and, of course, kimchi. But knowledge about it is increasing among Palace
professionals and coffee lovers. Seoul
what is hidden is that people from South streets are flooding with coffee: you can Built in 1395 and is the most
Korea are big workaholics: according to data see a coffee shops 20 steps away from each beautiful and the largest one
from South Korea’s Ministry of Strategy and other. They all have their unique concept out of 5 Seoul’s palaces.
Finance, South Koreans work 55 hours a and design: here coffee shops are usually
week, or 2,316 hours a year. Moreover, ac- big with a lot of people working behind
cording to a study released in August 2014, the counter, clients mostly prefer to drink
Seoulites, in particular, get the least amount their coffee in the shop while on their
of sleep of any residents of major cities in laptops, reading or sunken into their
the world, just less than six hours a night. smart phones. As for the local order,
That is why, here in Seoul, cafes, compared to Tokyo purist taste, Seoulites
restaurants, spas, shopping centers and fast tend to experiment with their coffees,
food chains are open any hour of any night. flavors and ingredients, that is why, Seoul
To help you stay awake all night and work might be one of the best places to dis-
hard all day coffee companies has been cover and re-discover coffee scene over
developing themselves into magnificent and over again. Here are the newest
Seoul coffee scene. Koreans grew up with Seoul’s shops that will try to rock your
Maxim, famous instant coffee brand. world or, at least, give you a cup of cof-
Espresso culture and pour over coffees are fee to remember.

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