Our Seoul café hopping continued in Mangwon with a visit to Coffee Conhas, a portmanteau structure that combined the former residential building’s concrete-walled building with a stack of re-purposed shipping containers. The mix of old and new, industrial and vernacular somehow managed to fit right in its residential surroundings, as if Coffee Conhas had always been part of the neighborhood. From street level, we didn’t really notice the container buildings hovering in the air, though maybe we were distracted by the friendly pup who stood guard at the cafe’s entrance.
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