There are tons of styles of café in Seoul. You would have fun with visiting various cafés of Seoul such as themed cafés like a sheep café or a gallery café on the site where used to be an abandoned factory. Looking for a nice café is one of the pleasures of people who living in Seoul, and new cafes keep springing up.
There are many new places coming. I visit a different place and search a new cafe whenever I go out. It is one of my pleasures to look for a nice café in Seoul, too. To explore the new places is a lot of fun.
Today’s posting is about café bear. As I got there a little early, I had to walk around the garden until the café was open. I enjoyed looking around the Korean traditional house and garden.
I was welcomed by a lovely cat. She came up and rubbed her head against my legs. It was so adorable! I thought it was special case, but I soon found the fact that she welcomed everybody who visits the cafe.
Café bear is owned and operated by design eum, a publishing company which publishes Korean version of Kinfolk. So its interior design of the cafe looks like ‘Kinfolk style’. The part of interior design reminds me Northern Europe style interior or Scandinavian design. The inside of the café is white and clean. Contrary to its interior style, the facing of this building is a traditional Korean-style house, Hanok. The frame from traditional Korean wooden brackets is in sharp contrast to white walls and floors. It looks very attractive that a traditional Korean house has the Northern Europe interior style.
Kinfolk style has been in fashion in Korea for the past few years. An air of neat and calm house is what many Korean housewives want. So do I! I tried to apply that interior style to my house, but I realized it must have high ceilings and large windows that let lots of light in. There is a difficulty to apply to a Korean house. Yet I still love visiting and staying in my kind of interior space.
It takes15 minutes-walk from the station and Seochon area is nice place for walk. When you are looking for a nice café near Gyeonbok Palace, it would be a nice choice to visit the Hanok café, café bear. I would add, one of my post about Tongin Market in Seochon would help you, too.
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Address : 24, Jahamun-ro 24-gil, Hyoja-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Telephone : +82) (0)70 7775 8001
Webpage: https://blog.naver.com/designeum/220756076020
Operating Hours: 12:00 -19:00 (Monday Tuesday Closed)
Transportation : Gyeongbokgung Station (Seoul Subway Line 3), Exit 3 (10-minute walk).
