GIMPO, South Korea –
The world’s last Cold War frontier now has a Starbucks cafe in South Korea where customers can get a glimpse through the heavily militarized border into the North, all while sipping a latte.
Hundreds showed up on Friday for the opening of the U.S. coffeehouse chain’s newest store in an observatory near the city of Gimpo, around 50 kilometers northwest of Seoul and close to the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.
The DMZ has become an unlikely draw for foreign and local tourists, despite a spike in tensions on the Korean Peninsula in recent years.