Pardon the bad picture, it was taken with my cell phone.
I'm a big fan of Cafe Mochas, and I think coffeeshops are neat places in general, so I'm happy about this. When I moved to Suncheon in August, 2007, the only chain coffee shops were Tom n' Toms, Rosebud, and Dunkin Donuts, with a handful of no-name places near Suncheon University, and New and Old Downtowns. Since I've arrived, though, we've gotten a third Dunkin Donuts, two Holly's Coffees, a Ti Amo across from Suncheon University, and a bunch of new one-off places clustered around the above hotspots and also the fast-growing area behind Home Plus. My friend says that it won't be long until we get a Starbucks. I don't know about that; cities of Suncheon's size haven't gotten one yet. Besides, we must remember that the next rung in the evolutionary ladder is KFC, which Suncheon still lacks.
I heard that Kenya Espresso is a Gwangju-grown institution. I couldn't find any more details about it, but Naver shows that all 12 locations it lists are in Gwangju, so it's nice to see local boys doing good.
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Kenya has pretty sudstandard coffee but it was the first coffee shop chain in Gwangju to buck the Dabang trend. Until Kenya rolled around coffee was sold in small half full (half empty?) mugs. Gwangju's coffee was almost exclusively instant with loads of powdered creamer and brown sugar. You could expect to pay 4000 to 5000 won for this and a cup of brewed coffee would run you a couple thousand more. Remember this was pre-IMF when the currency was worth something.
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