Jeonpo Cafe Street
Former hardware district reborn as a warren of specialty cafes, bakeries and workshop-style bars.
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This guide to Jeonpo Cafe Street in Busan starts with five hundred hardware stores crowding one working-class strip through the 1960s and 70s, and follows what happened after the trade drained away and the shutters came down through the 1980s. Around 2009 a handful of young shop owners moved into the empty storefronts, keeping the bare concrete and old warehouse ceilings while trading wrenches for espresso machines. Look up at the exposed beams of a converted workshop, or an old hardware sign still hanging over a doorway that now leads somewhere else entirely.
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