Coffee Corner

The corner near our house used to have an Angel-in-Us and a Sleepless in Seattle.  That seemed like an abundance of coffeeshops to new-to-Korea me, especially since none of them are open in the morning.  Daegu, more than any city I've lived in, is a living organism, constantly sprouting new businesses and sloughing off old ones.  So in the past few months, we've seen a Cafe Bene, Davinci's, and Starbucks go up on the same corner.  Nearby, where the cheaper real estate is, we saw new small business coffeeshops emerge, like Mariage (sp).  I don't understand the Korean free market at all.  You would think that coffee businesses would want to set up shops where there is not competition.  Not so.

We predict that a Holly's Coffee and/or a Dunkin Donuts will be here in the next couple of months.  I think those are the only big chains we're missing.

Now, for fun, a video of Xander talking to himself in the mirror.  We call baby-in-the-mirror his on again, off again friend.  It seems like they're always making each other cry.