It's right by the main gate of Hongik University, but I'd somehow never been. The older middle-aged Korean guy who runs it has, as far as I can tell, at least 4 pet sheep that he loves dearly, and it's totally adorable. It's called the Thanks Nature Café, and if you find their page on Facebook you can see all kinds of cute pictures, like a recent one of one of the sheep getting a bath.
While I have no idea why sheep seem to be a Christmassy thing in Korea (which I only noticed this year; it's just a coincidence that the last time I met Takako was on X-mas Eve), they are definitely a novelty and rarity, existing on a single farm in Gangwon provice that families take road trips to see. It's not far from where the 2018 Winter Olympics are going to be held, in the middle of nowhere. I guess it's kind of like how cheese was only introduced to Korea in 1967 and just never took.
Anyway, I had thought the sheep would be wandering around inside the café itself, like how it is with dog and cat cafés, but they actually live in a pen outside, which is surrounded by plants and covered by a series of clear umbrellas.
They nom everything, like goats, including the wooden sides of their pen, the metal bars of their little air-conditioned house and each others' reindeer antler headbands.
-stares at tree-
-sniffs tree-
-noms tree-
-stares at metal bars-
-noms metal bars-
And here's the Sheep Whisperer himself:
They way their craned their heads back and rolled them around to see him and follow him was a little like something out of The Exorcist, but very endearing.
Oh, and I read a blog post that said the café's waffles are underwhelming, but I had a yuzu yogurt smoothie, Takako had fruit tea, and both were delicious. If you're in Seoul and all about the cute cafe culture, be sure to hit this one after the Hello Kitty Café.
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