Founder Lee Oh-sook and her husband, both the children of North Korean refugees, built the cafe less than two kilometres from the border in Paju, seeking proximity to their ancestral homeland.

Paju (South Korea) (AFP) – 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.

Daonsoop is far from the only cafe with a view of the North: a Starbucks in an observatory on the border has itself become a tourist attraction. But it is one of the closest by far, and it also has a ...

The Daonsoop cafe in Paju, South Korea ... had to construct the property with a bunker. Once a year, the bunker is requisitioned by the army for military exercises, but the rest of the time ...

Daonsoop cafe is so close to the North Korean border that to obtain the building permit, its owners had to construct the property with a bunker and fortified positions for tanks. Founder Lee Oh-sook ...