BUSAN, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Busan will become the epicenter of the coffee world next month as it hosts the “World of Coffee & World Barista Championship,” an international event showcasing coffee products and pitting national barista champions against one another. From May 1 to 4, the Bexco Exhibition Center will welcome [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea held a completion ceremony Monday for the 2nd ‘Starbucks Restart Program,’ a training program designed to support the comeback of failed small business owners. For a group of failed small business owners who had no option but to shut down their businesses, Starbucks offered training twice in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Cho Kyung-ja (alias), a 33-year-old North Korean defector, is busy operating an espresso machine, preparing four cappuccinos, grinding, temping, frothing and sometimes wiping away beans that scatter here and there. As she lays the four cups down on a table, she shyly smiles as she says, “Excuse me. Here [...]
GIMHAE, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean robotics company has revealed an unmanned barista that is capable of all stages of coffee making from taking orders and making coffee to serving customers, a device that some speculate could replace coffeehouse workers in the near future. The coffee-making robot, which makes coffee and serves [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) - K-pop girl group 4minute became honorary baristas of Tom N Toms Coffee, the Seoul-based franchise coffeehouse chain said on Thursday. In a one-day lesson, the four-member group engaged themselves in learning how to make espresso-based coffee drinks, instructed by a professional barista of TOM N TOMS Academy. The girl group [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Angel-in-us Coffee, a coffee chain from the Korean-Japanese conglomerate Lotte Group, is proceeding with a special event where coffee prices are discounted or increased depending on a customer’s politeness when ordering. In the event “Warm-hearted Word – Call My Name,” to be held on the first Wednesday of every [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group and LG Electronics came forward to helping out immigrant women by opening a café and free cooking classes respectively. On September 30, Samsung opened a café named “E-eum,” meaning connection in English, at the student union building of Daegu University in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province. The café with the size [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Three new baristas were certified and will begin work at the ‘My Espresso Café,’ the first café for the homeless supported by the City Government of Seoul. These professional coffee makers were trained by the city government as part of its self-support program for the homeless, a program that has previously [...]