Puppy Cafe

The other day after class, I went to Hongdae with some classmates from the Korean Class. 

In Hongdae, we found this! This magnificent thing is a puppy cafe. At least at the moment. This place seemed to have been a cat cafe for a while. The difference being that now instead of cats walking around, they have puppies. The cats at the cat cafe I have often heard are really sick of people and cuddle, like cats often can be. Now the nice thing about dogs is that they can't get enough of it!

So this is the place on the inside. Often you have to pay to get in to places like this. Here you just needed to buy a drink. I got an ice mocha. It was quite good, but it had mini marshmallows in it. It does not work as well with cold Chocolate drinks as with hot ones.

This is Jee-Wei, a new friend of mine from the LEI intensive Korean Course I am attending. He is from Taiwan, and normally studies German of all things. The dog he is about to pet was my favourite. He loved cuddling.

Here is the probably cutes dog in the cafe. Too bad I did not get the names of all the dogs by the way. Now this one was a real bully. He always tried to get the attention of the people cuddling with other dogs. He wanted what the other dogs had.

Here he is trying to sit on the face of the cute dog who fel asleep on me. The beagle looked exactly like a stuffed animal i had when I was a kid tho, so I couldn't get mad at it. 

Here is Ida. She is my homestay-sister and also goes to my Korean class. She is from Denmark, so we always end up explaining to people how Denmark occupied Norway back and forth together with Sweden, because Koreans can relate to that. 

This one was really tired, and spent most of the time sleeping under a chair at the bar.

Here is another beagle photo, because: Beagle. A question the popped into my head while I was there though was: "What happens with the dogs when they are no longer puppies and cute?". I decided to myself that they get adopted by cafe-regulars who grow fond of them, but under this layer of naiveness,  I know that the story is probably not as nice. However I don't think the loss of one exchange student customer once or twice will make a big difference in the business of the cafe, so I did not feel very guilty about going. 

If you feel the same when you are here, this is the business card of the place. 

To find it in google maps type in:

37.553228, 126.925450

If you walk there, you will see it.