Event Seoul Coffee Festival

The 10th Seoul Coffee Festival 2025

Cafe Show in the city!

The Seoul Coffee Festival, held alongside the Cafe Show Seoul, is a global celebration of coffee culture that extends beyond the exhibition halls, filling the entire city with the aroma of coffee. From Starfield Library to every corner of downtown Seoul, the city becomes infused with coffee, art, creativity, and inspiration. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this year’s theme — Coffee-verse — symbolizes the infinite world contained within a single cup of coffee and its endless expansion. We invite you into a new universe of coffee, where culture, people, and inspiration are endlessly connected. Discover your own Coffee-verse across Seoul’s streets, squares, and cafes.

Seoul Coffee Spot

20 Cafes Leading Seoul’s Coffee Trends

In 2025, Seoul Coffee Spot showcased 20 distinctive cafes, each with its own character and story, highlighting the diversity of Seoul’s coffee culture.

  • - Date :  Nov.19(Wed) – Nov.22(Sat), 2025, 4 days
  • - Venue :  Selected Seoul Coffee Spot cafes

Coffee Talk

Coffee-verse, another world expanding through coffee

A story that begins with a single cup of coffee spreads to people, spaces, and the city itself. This year, the Seoul Coffee Festival unfolds a new world of coffee within our everyday lives, through the connections and inspirations that coffee creates. Here, where aroma and warmth, conversations and moments come together, discover a coffee experience that enriches your day even more deeply.

  • - Date :  Nov.19(Wed) - Nov.20(Thu), 2025
  • - Venue :  Coffee Talk Stage in Starfield Library

2025 Program

Nov.19(Wed)
15:00 ~ 15:30 [Theme] The Future of Specialty Coffee: The Fifth Wave - Present and Future of the Coffee Industry
[Speaker] Wonjin Cho Coffee Columnist
15:30 ~ 16:00 [Theme] Drawing the world with coffee, connecting people through it.
[Speaker] Cacol Creator
16:00 ~ 16:30 [Theme]How I Remember a Cafe
[Speaker] Han Coff Creator
Nov.20(Thu)
15:00~15:30 [Theme]How Global Coffee Trends are Changing After the Pandemic
[Speaker] Jaebeom Shim Specialty Coffee Columnist
15:30~16:00 [Theme]Brew Your Identity : A Moment to Find Myself in the Infinite Coffee-verse
[Speaker] Yeseul Kim Illustrator
16:00~16:30 [Theme]One Cup of Coffee, One Piece of Art – The Essence of What Makes Coffee Truly Great
[Speaker] Yongmin Cho CEO

Coffee Library

Coffee-verse, another world expanding through coffee

A story that begins with a single cup of coffee extends to people, spaces, and the city itself. This year, the Seoul Coffee Festival unfolds a new world of coffee within our daily lives, through the connections and inspirations born from coffee. Here, where aroma, warmth, conversation, and moments come together, immerse yourself in a deeper coffee experience that enriches your day.

Mini Coffee Art Gallery

The Mini Coffee Art Gallery, nestled within the space, is a haven where the art and emotions inspired by coffee unfold. Presented alongside the Coffee Library, it layers visual artistry over the literary inspiration of books. Featuring drawings by artists Cacol and Yeseul Kim depicting scenes of travel, daily life, and cafes, the exhibition offers a special moment where the aroma and colors of coffee bloom into art in the heart of the city.

  • - Date :  Nov.7(Fri) ~ Nov.22(Sat), 2025
  • - Venue :  Starfield Library in Starfield COEX mall B1 floor