PREVIOUSLY
IN ACOPIA
Yesterday was Annie's, our intern from Vietnam, last day. For this occasion we prepared a cake for her. The cake was in the shape of a bunny and was filled with a lot of whipped cream. It was delicious! The office was filled with joy. It was a day to remember with cake, friends/coworkers, and our selfmade flower arrangements.
Read MoreThis Wednesday, June 20, we are organizing a movie event on the French film "blind date" ("un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément"). We will be very happy to welcome you to this event to share a pleasant moment with a film and then discuss all together to share our ideas and opinions. We are looking forward to seeing you !!
Read MoreFirst, we cooked sweet crêpes. In France, crêpes are traditionally served on Candlemas (La Chandeleur), 2 February. A belief is that catching the crêpe with a frying pan after tossing it in the air with your right hand while holding a gold coin in your left hand would cause you to become rich that year!
Read MoreToday we went to Hongik University to meet the secretary of M. Benjamin Joinauwho is a professor at Hongik University, he is a doctor of Cultural Anthropology specialized in Korean Studies and also the Director of l'"Atelier des Cahiers".
Read MoreVisiting Universities allows to favorise cross cultural exchanges in South Korea.
With this aim, our interns could discuss with students from South Korea and abroad in order to exchange and promote about our free talking program and events in our Acopia Café.
On 23rd August, all ACOPIA interns went to Sulbing in Hongdae, not far from ACOPIA cafe, to eat Bingsu together! This was for the departure of two of our beloved interns, Sylvie and Sylvain. Bingsu is a traditional Korean dessert that consists of grinding condensed iced milk into a snow ball and adding some sweet red beans and rice cakes on top, with some extra condensed milk over. We were feeling adventurous so we took a tiramisu bingsu, a chocolate brownie bingsu and a melon bingsu. All three were delicious!!
Read MoreSome of our interns are finishing their internship and going back to their countries.At Acopia, we decided to have a pizza party this time to say goodbye to them!
Read MoreWe (Acopia interns) were a morning at the DMZ. It was a good experience to learn more about Korean culture.
We saw the South Korean and North Korean border, tunnels dug during the war (1950-1953),... It is also very moving to see the number of people wanting reunification and peace between these two countries.
Read MoreToday we held our first Reading Club meeting, where we talked about Jen Sincero's motivational book "You are a badass". We shared the thoughts that we had while reading the book and some quotes that we really liked. Then we also decided to talk about how we handle hard situations and what we do in order to get through them. It was also a very good opportunity for us to have some cultural exchange as all of the participants came from different countries.
Read MoreTteokbokki is a rice cake with a spicy sauce and can be eaten with hardboiled eggs and odeng.Kimbap, on the other hand, is similar to sushi. It is seaweed wrapped around rice and your choice of vegetables and meat.
Read MoreLast friday Gaelle Larvor visited Acopia Cafe to introduce her work in South Korea.She is an Assistant Director at Korea Boardgames since 2015.
Read MoreToday two representatives from Yeungjin College in Daegu came to Acopia Cafeto present their foreign students program and scholarship program.
They prepared a presentation video and introduced us to the different scholarship
Read MoreDuring this trip, we visited the Busan Museum, where some of our interns tried on hanboks (Korean traditional clothes). After visiting the museum, we headed to Haeundae beach where we visited the Sea Life Aquarium and we also took some pictures of the Sand Festival.
Read MoreThis week we say goodbye to one of our interns: Wina.
She will miss us a lot. It was a pleasure to work on these sides. I hope we will have the opportunity to see her again.
Today we visited Hongik University to promote Acopia Cafe as a rental place~We put our poster on the wall of the Entrance Building.
Read MoreOne of the best things about Acopia Café is its location: in Hongdae, one of the most youthful and vibrant areas of Seoul! Living and working in Hongdae allows us, interns, to eat a lot of delicious food, as it is an area with so many restaurants! In this new post about Life in Korea, I will show you some of the best foods I have tried since I started my internship in Seoul.
Read MoreThey presented us famous delivery application like Yogiyo and Beadal eui Minjok which korean people like to us. They also showed us what kind of food can be delivered like Sampgyeopsal or grilled fish.
Read MoreDo you like sweet food? You never skip your dessert after having a meal? Neither we do!So today we are bringing to you some photos of the desserts we have had in Hongdae area during our internship period! In Hongdae, you can find everything you imagine~Are you craving some ice cream? You can have it in Hongdae!
Read MoreAcopia Cafe is located in Hongdae, one of the most famous and crowded areas of Seoul.Hongdae is a very popular place among young Koreans as you can find there a lot ofrestaurants, coffee shops, clothes stores and more that offer really good prices!However, next to Hongdae, there's another area, where you can find really good coffeeshops and restaurants, called Hapjeong (합정동).Last Saturday I went to Hapjeong for some tea and dinner! After drinking our delicious 오미자로즈힙 (Omija Rosehip) and 매실래몬 (Asian Apricot Lemon)teas, we headed out to find a good restaurant to have dinner. After a few minutes, we found a cozy restaurant where we had some delicious Korean food.
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