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Korean Drinks - alcoholic and non-alcoholic Korean beverages
South Korea offers a fascinating variety of drinks that reflect both traditional and modern tastes.
The country has a lively coffee culture, for example, with numerous cafés and a particular fondness for iced coffee. In Korean grocery stores you'll also find a wide selection of tasty fruit juices and smoothies, as well as soft drinks in many extraordinary flavors.
South Korea is also known for a rich and varied tradition of alcoholic drinks that are deeply rooted in Korean culture. The best known and most popular kinds of alcohol include Soju, Makgeolli (rice wine), Korean beer and Bokbunja-ju (fruit wine).
Where you can find trendy and special K-Drinks in Korea:
Korean convenience stores
Korean convenience stores (편의점 or Pyeonuijeom) are a lot like the 24/7 shop at a German gas station, and you really do find them everywhere in Korea. They are deeply woven into everyday Korean life and serve as social meeting points where you can grab a quick bite, have something to drink or meet up with friends without any fuss.
Despite often being small, the stores offer an impressively broad range of products, including fresh food, ready meals, snacks, cosmetics and of course Korean drinks in pouches, bottles and to-go cups. The variety and the constantly growing selection are a big part of their appeal. Convenience store chains like GS25 or 7-Eleven often work with well-known restaurants and chefs to offer affordable food of very good quality. That is also why convenience stores are the best place to try the latest food trends from YouTube and TikTok videos!
Drink vending machines
The Korean term 자판기 is pronounced roughly “japangi” and simply means “vending machine”. Just as in many other countries around the world, in Korea you can buy snacks, ice cream, flowers and sometimes bananas or even medicine from machines like these. The drink machines are especially popular, supplying you with all sorts of unusual and unique drinks in Korea!
We can't send you a real vending machine, of course, but we can at least send the most popular and most interesting drinks on the Korean market.
These include, for example:
Korean coffee - a tasty caffeine kick
Coffee has only been drunk in Korea for a little over 100 years, and yet it is by far the country's most popular hot drink - well ahead of tea, in fact! On average, Koreans drink 2.5 cups of coffee a day, or 12.3 cups a week. Today there are countless cafés and large coffee shops in Korea: 18,000 in the capital Seoul alone!
No wonder, then, that South Korea has coffee specialties of its own that you won't find here in Germany. “Dalgona coffee”, for example, has become a huge trend online. You can find a recipe for it here.
Cold coffee drinks are hugely popular too. The refreshing drinks come in to-go pouches in every Korean convenience store. There you can also buy a cup filled with ice to pour the drink of your choice into. Your chilled K-Coffee is ready!
Trending - milk coffee with banana flavor
On TikTok, in vlogs from Seoul and in Korean convenience stores, this mixed drink keeps turning up: banana milk mixed with iced coffee. It sounds unusual at first, but it has long since become a genuine cult drink.
The combination of lightly sweet banana-flavored milk and strong, ice-cold coffee makes a surprisingly harmonious drink: creamy, refreshing and with a real Seoul feel.
The iced coffee is especially authentic with Vegemil Banana Milk. The Korean drink is made with a soy base, which also makes it ideal for a vegan or vegetarian diet. For the coffee we recommend the varieties from Cantabile in their handy drink pouches.
So what are you waiting for? Ice in the glass, banana soy milk on top, pour in the iced coffee, stir briefly and your Korean Banana Latte for home is ready! ☕🍌
Korean Banana Milk: The Soy Cult Drink
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Korean lemonade & soft drinks - fruity and especially refreshing
Lemonade exists all over the world, Korea included. And Korean lemonade is of course just as refreshing and tasty as anywhere else. One key difference from the German market, though, is the many different and often unusual flavors.
Korean ade drinks (a kind of lemonade) are perfect when you're having a snack in a Korean convenience store or looking for a refreshing drink for on the go. Koreans normally drink these out of a plastic cup filled with ice cubes that you can buy ready to go in the store. At home you can of course simply get the ice cubes out of your fridge!
Alongside ade drinks there are also many Korean punch varieties, such as rice punch, cinnamon punch or pine sprout punch.
Korean alcohol - tradition meets modernity
Sure, everyone knows that Germans love beer. But did you know that Korea has a big drinking culture too? Koreans like to play drinking games, go bar hopping or follow all sorts of rules about which dishes are served with which kind of alcohol.
소주 Soju: This is the most popular alcoholic drink in South Korea. It is a clear Korean spirit that is traditionally made from rice.
막걸리 Makgeolli: A cloudy, lightly sweet rice wine that has a lower alcohol content than Soju. It is known for its lightly fizzy, refreshing character.
맥주 Maekju (Korean beer): The Korean beer industry has grown considerably in importance in recent years. Lagers are especially popular in summer.
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