Reclining on sofas at a South Korean cafe, customers sip iced americanos as they gaze past barbed wire fences and watchtowers at the mountains of North Korea. Customers look towards the mountains ...

Starbucks Coffee Korea Co.’s new riverbank cafe at an observatory tower in South ... at normal village life in Gaepung county across the border, the invite to the event from the city government ...

in the grounds of the Daonsoop cafe, built less than two kilometers from the North Korean border (fence and river in background) in Paju, north of Seoul. Photo: AFP Below the cafe’s bay windows runs ...

Daonsoop cafe is so close to the North Korean border that to obtain the building permit, its owners had to construct the property with a bunker and fortified positions for tanks. Founder Lee Oh ...

Founder Lee Oh-sook and her husband, both the children of North Korean refugees, built the cafe less than two kilometres from the border in Paju, seeking proximity to their ancestral homeland.

and South Korea still refers to the border as the “front line”. Below the cafe’s bay windows runs the Jayu-ro motorway, or “Freedom Road”, which in an ideal future would link Seoul to ...

Reclining on sofas at a South Korean cafe, customers sip iced americanos as they gaze past barbed wire fences and watchtowers at the mountains of North Korea. Founder Lee Oh-sook and her husband, both ...