{"id":2192,"date":"2021-11-22T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:06:53","slug":"jeonpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/jeonpo\/","title":{"rendered":"A street dedicated to coffee lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Foong Pek Yee<\/div>\n
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Jeonpo Cafe Street in Busan, South Korea has 40 cafes and still counting.<\/div>\n
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It is the place for coffee lovers; from good coffee, ambience and\u00a0 service to an interesting history behind it.<\/div>\n
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Stumbled upon the place during my trip to Busan in the Summer of 2019,\u00a0 I went there a few days\u00a0 to try out the cafes and has plans to go there again.<\/div>\n
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After all, my favourite pastime is sitting at a cafe reading or watching the world go by.<\/div>\n
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I learned\u00a0 that South Koreans are particular over the\u00a0 ambience of a cafe, and this is not without reason.<\/div>\n
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To begin with, coffee was the drink for only the royalty until 1930.<\/div>\n
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In 1896, Korea’s King Kojong was introduced to coffee in Russia\u00a0 where he took refuge from invading Japanese.<\/div>\n
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He fell in love with hot coffee with sugar and brought home his favourite beverage.<\/div>\n
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From then until 1930,\u00a0 sipping hot coffee, eating sweet snacks and listening to classical music was only for the royalty.<\/div>\n
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Coffee beans were available in the market from 1930 but only the rich had access to it.<\/div>\n
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By 1950, coffeeshops or\u00a0 Da-Bang started to crop up in town areas.<\/div>\n
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In 1970, a\u00a0 company, Dong – Suh, started manufacturing powdered coffee in South Korea, making coffee easily available to the people .<\/div>\n
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The history of coffee in Korea is proudly displayed at the entrance to Busan Coffee Museum (BCM)\u00a0 in Jeonpo Cafe Street.<\/div>\n
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Kim Dong-Kyu – the founder and owner of BCM- has an extraordinary love for anything coffee.<\/div>\n
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Focus: Dong-Kyu aims to make Busan Coffee Museum the largest of its kind in the world.<\/div>\n
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Allergic to coffee beans and never tasted coffee before, Dong-Kyu went on to marry Woo Hee Nae, a licenced master Barista.<\/div>\n
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BCM was set up in 2018 and Dong-Kyu in his early 30s, says he has researched on coffee for a decade by then.<\/div>\n
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His collection of some 450 exhibits;\u00a0 from roasters, grinders, coffee makers, coffee beans and literature from all over the world, some dated back a few centuries, makes BCM a one-stop-centre for coffee lovers.<\/div>\n
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Fascinated : Visitors to Busan Coffee Museum.<\/div>\n
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Priced collection: An old fashioned coffee grinder.<\/div>\n
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Your favourite pick :\u00a0 Coffee beans from around the world.<\/div>\n
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The Korean Economic Institute of America was reported saying some\u00a0 two billions cups of coffee are consumed daily worldwide.<\/div>\n
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Koreans reportedly drink an average of 12.3 cups coffee a week in 2019.<\/div>\n
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Dong-Kyu –\u00a0 a professionally trained curator\u00a0 and landscape engineer-\u00a0 has plans to turn BCM into the largest of its kind in the world.<\/div>\n
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He\u00a0 has another coffee museum in his house in Yangsan, a 30-minute-drive from Jeonpo.<\/div>\n
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Attention : You can find anything coffee.<\/div>\n
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Jeonpo cafe Street is certainly an ideal location for BCM.<\/div>\n
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Jeonpo rose to be among the trendiest spots in Busan in just a decade, with some 40 cafes among its 170 outlets which are mostly eateries and accessory shops.<\/div>\n
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Prior to that, Jeonpo was like any backstreet with sunset businesses like hardware stores .<\/div>\n
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Young people moved in to transform the area – renovated the empty stores into chic cafes and eateries, and the rest is history.<\/div>\n
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