Coffee Cupper Coffee Museum & Farm

Coffee Cupper's museum and farm complex in Wangsan-myeon, on the outskirts of Gangneung, opened in March 2000, founded by a married couple, Kim Jun-yeong and Choi Geum-jeong, whose personal collecting of coffee-related artifacts grew into a public museum. Their collection now runs to more than 20,000 pieces, displayed across a four-building complex: a coffee history and culture exhibition hall, a roaster-and-grinder exhibition hall, a coffee-mechanism exhibition hall, and an on-site coffee tree farm, with a fifth building used as a hands-on experience space. Gangneung's location on Korea's east coast, in one of the country's few climates suited to growing coffee trees outdoors, makes the working farm itself a rarity — most Korean coffee businesses import green beans rather than growing any domestically. Visitors can tour the farm and taste coffee grown and roasted on site, and the shop sells roasted beans as well as a Dutch-style cold-brew coffee. A second Coffee Cupper museum was later opened near Gangneung's Gyeongpo area, extending the brand to a second, more centrally located site while the original Wangsan complex retains the working farm.