30 November,2024 07:12 AM IST | Seoul | Agencies
A view of the North Korean side, from the Starbucks. Pic/AP
Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory.
Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory at Aegibong Peace Ecopark, which is less than a mile from North Korean territory and overlooks North Korea's Songaksan mountain and a nearby village in Kaephung county.
The tables and windows face North Korea at the Starbucks, where about 40 people, a few of them foreigners, came to the opening Friday.
The South Korean city of Gimpo said hosting Starbucks was part of efforts to develop its border facilities as a tourist destination and said the shop symbolizes "robust security on the Korean Peninsula through the presence of this iconic capitalist brand."
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