Big Coffee News: fresh roasted coffee at Cafe Classico

Okay so it’s no secret I’m a coffee find (EDIT: That should read “fiend” d’oh…). Saying that I’ve blogged about trying to find a decent cup of Joe in Seoul before is an understatement (just here, here, here, and here).

So yesterday I’m walking with my girlfriend to the Gangnam Hooters and she spots a little corner cafe which I’ve walked by many times before without thinking about. She says she wants to check it out, so we walk closer. That’s when I notice a little sign that says “커피 볶은집” (coffee roasting house).

Sure enough, I was able to pick up a bag of same-day roasted coffee beans to bring to the office this morning.
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CONTEST UPDATE: We have a winner

Thanks to the folks over at The East Wind-up Chronicle for their entertaining entry about Five Things You Need For Your Next Korean Baseball Game.

It’s timely too, as SK just won their first ever Korean baseball league championship!

It’s also worth checking out their coverage on the MLB World Series, which also just wrapped-up with the Boston Red Sox sweeping the Colorado Rockies for their second championship in two years.

I’ve decided to move away from the original plan to post a top-ten list of the best entrants, and re-post the entire entry for posterity. In order to keep in the ‘Top Ten’ Spirit, I will round out the list with the top five YouTube videos of Korean cheergirls:
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Final Saturday trip to Daejon Animal Shelter

From the Daejon 150:

We will be making the usual trip down to Daejon this Saturday for people interested in adopting or fostering a dog. We have applied to the Daejon council for more time to adopt the dogs out, but if we don’t receive a favourable response this may be the last weekend trip before the dogs are sent to other shelters.

We will be taking the 9.00am KTX train from Seoul station to Daejon. We meet in the KTX ticket/departure gate area of Seoul station before 8.45am (I recommend people arrive between 8.30 and 8.45 as the train leaves at 9.00am sharp). Anyone who is not familiar with the KTX gate, when you walk up the big set of stairs at the front of Seoul station and walk inside the main area you will see an escalator immediately in front of you with a KTX sign. Take that escalator up to the mezzanine level one floor above the main area and we meet there. The train takes about an hour to get to Daejon.
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Contest Update

I wanted to take a moment and highlight an outstanding entry we had from the East Wind-up Chronicle about how to enjoy a Korean baseball game.

A note about the contest: We haven’t had many entries, so your chances are very good! You have until next Monday night to get into the contest.

Calling all Korea Bloggers: Enjoy a movie or book on us!

Our week one gift certificate winner was a representative of the Seoul Sisters Rugby Club. Congratulations, and thanks for posting about your November 24th Dodgeball Tournament!

For week two, we’re focusing on English-Language blogs related to Korea. Those of you that follow ProBlogger will be pretty familiar with how this is going to run. Here are the vital stats:

Prize: 2 x 10,000 Won gift certificates (to a single winner) that can be used on Movie tickets, books, and some other stuff. In other words, that’s 20,000 won in gift certificates.

Bonus: Extra exposure for your blog. We will post a summary of the contest with props to the best ten tips of all of the lists with full credit and links to the blog that produced each of the top ten tips.

Read below for the full rules:

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