It was about a decade ago when the coffee craze hit Seoul. Although the caffeinated beverage had been introduced a century earlier, it was often considered a luxury product and was not consumed by common folk until the sixties. The industry further transformed, however, in 1999 when Starbucks entered the Korean market. It didn’t take …
One of the cool things about Korea is that there is a number of subcultures flourishing, but many of them are so far underground that visitors (and even some locals) might never even suspect their existence. B-boy culture is one of these and while I knew it was present here, my exposure to it had …