U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has opened a shop at a South Korean observatory, near the Demilitarized Zone and overlooking a North Korean mountain village.
SEOUL, South Korea — Starbucks, one of the world’s most recognizable, if sometimes tedious, symbols of global capitalism, has a knack for choosing unique spots to open coffee shops. A 1,200-year-old castle in the Prague houses one, an ancient former mosque in Cordoba another, and a decommissioned power station in London a third.
North Korea has also this year sent thousands of balloons attached to bags of trash, old batteries and manure across the border, with one landing in Seoul's presidential compound. Still, the heavily militarized border that bisects the Korean peninsula has long been an unlikely draw for foreign and local tourists, and now Gimpo is getting in on the action.
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