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Bunker-cafe on Korean border paints image of peace

  • Daonsoop cafe, founded by Lee Oh-sook and her husband, sits less than two kilometers from the North Korean border in Paju, South Korea.
  • The owners built the cafe near their ancestral homeland but had to add a bunker and tank fortifications to obtain a building permit due to the area's militarized status.
  • Customers relax sipping iced americanos while gazing across barbed wire, the Imjin river, and the mountains of North Korea, amid nightly loudspeaker noise campaigns reflecting tense bilateral relations.
  • Cartoonist Kim Dae-nyeon exhibits drawings inside the bunker’s narrow loopholes overlooking North Korea, illustrating division’s hardship and hopes for reunification.
  • The cafe attracts North Korean defectors who view their unreachable homeland during family holidays, symbolizing ongoing division and the hope for future peace.
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Bunker-cafe on Korean border paints image of peace

Reclining on sofas at a South Korean cafe, customers sip iced americanos as they gaze past barbed wire fences and watchtowers at the mountains of North Korea.

·Chariton, United States
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The Indiana Gazette Online broke the news in Indiana, United States on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
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