Starbucks Seoul Gyodae — Restaurant in Seoul

I intensely dislike Starbucks in Korea because of the high prices, but even more because of the kind of Koreans who go there. Most are young, status-obsessed women. If you are a foreigner, they will avoid you like the plague, because foreigners are looked down on here. You don't have status and if you are a man, you MUST think Korean women are beautiful, so you MIGHT want to talk to one, but because you probably aren't rich and because you are therefore just foreign scum, you will quickly find that all the tables around you are empty. That makes being there very embarrassing, humiliating and unpleasant.

I have another objection to Starbucks in Korea. A couple of years ago, they began to offer discounts to Korean soldiers who were serving at the front lines, up near the DMZ, and to soldiers who were in the large, airborne, special forces brigades here. As a former airborne soldier in the U.S. army, I thought that was a wonderful gesture, even though I did not qualify for the discount, since I am an American. Unfortunately, young Korean women strongly objected to the discount, since it meant that they might have to sit near a soldier - someone who was not rich. Starbucks caved in and stopped the discount. I thought that was an outrage and vowed never to go...

It has much space so I could find a seat there despite that the other Starbucks nearby were already full. But I didn't realize that the closing time was that early, so I couldn't stay much...

Terrible. They give you a knife that is not serrated. Go to any other coffee place When asking for a different knife you are out of luck. Love...