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Last Updated: 2025/12/06, ▲ Click to pay attention| Daily Boutique Coffee Culture Magazine Coffee Factory Yesterday, Starbucks opened a branch in the lookout tower in Gimpo City on the South Korean border, attracting the attention of the South Korean public and many foreign media such as The Associated Press and CNN. According to Yonhap News Agency, the Starbucks is located in Aijiao Peak and Pingsheng, Gimpo City, Gyeonggi Province

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Yesterday, Starbucks opened a branch at the watchtower in Kimpo on the Korean border, attracting the attention of the South Korean public as well as the Associated Press, CNN and other foreign media.

According to the Yonhap News Agency, the Starbucks is located in the Aijiaofong Peace Ecological Park in Jinpu City, Gyeonggi Province, only 1.4 kilometers away from the nearest North Korean village, Kaifeng County.

Because of its proximity to the inter-Korean border, guests who want to have a cup of coffee at the Starbucks must fill in the entry form before entering the ecological park and be checked by South Korean military checkpoints, while foreign tourists must show their passports.

Although there is only a truce between the two Koreas, the situation between the two countries remains tense, and Kaifeng County is believed to be one of the possible locations for North Korea to release thousands of junk balloons in the past few months. Due to various factors, Starbucks may be regarded by the outside world as the most dangerous store in the world, and it is also the brand's closest branch to North Korea so far.

Nonetheless, on its first day of business, the special Starbucks attracted more than 40 people to sign in, some of them admiring foreigners. After entering the store, guests can choose to sit by the window, look at the distant Songyue Mountain in North Korea, enjoy the tranquil rural scenery, and order a cup of coffee to taste slowly. You can also use a better telescope or a camera with magnification function on the watchtower to see the North Korean people on the other side of the Han River.

The unusual experience packed many tourists on the viewing platform, and local South Korean residents interviewed said, "now that North Korea is close at hand, I really want to share this delicious coffee with the North Korean residents living across the street."

"having a cup of coffee here, I think I can look at North Korea, a country separated from us, with a calmer and calmer attitude," the 80-year-old Vietnam War veteran said at a news conference on the opening of the new Starbucks store. " He added, "in the past, the concept of security made people feel stiff and nervous, but now, with this cafe, I feel calmer and more secure."

However, some people believe that it is not appropriate for Starbucks to open stores on the inter-Korean border at a time of political tension between the two countries. In response, Kimpo Mayor Kim Byung-soo said that opening a coffee shop here does not worry that North Korea will feel provoked, but can reverse the outside world's gloomy stereotype of the border between the two Koreas.

In addition, the love brothel peak where Starbucks is located had a fierce battle during the war. At present, there are monuments and exhibition halls in the ecological park. The Jinpu city government hopes to turn it into an international tourist attraction and plans to jointly develop related commemorative goods with Starbucks.

Mayor Kim Byung-soo pointed out that Starbucks' presence is part of the local effort to develop border facilities into tourist attractions, and through the existence of Starbucks, a representative capitalist brand, the store symbolizes "fairly robust security on the Korean peninsula."

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