Korean coffee & indie music

Sundays are a great day. This semester I have to teach on Saturday mornings, which means Sundays are the only day of the week that I can completely do whatever I feel like doing. I have an accounting exam coming up in less than 2 weeks, so generally I'm burning the midnight oil at Starbucks or a local cafe. I go get coffee somewhere literally every day. You would too if you lived in a 200 sq. ft apartment.^^ For the past 4 months, I've been working on wrapping up my classes for my Korean and accounting classes and getting my accounting license paperwork in order. I'm insanely more productive if I bring my half-charged iPhone and textbooks and notebooks somewhere than just trying to get work done at home.

Today was a perfect day at two awesome indie cafes in my neighborhood. The first cafe I went to is a place I go to often and it's always quiet, cool, and awesome. They always play some seriously curated English indie music and have pillows, blankets, magazines and even outlets to charge your stuff. I will admit to staying here until they close at 11 pm before.

Sundays were made for good music, coffee, and getting a jump start on the week.

After I finished up my accounting work, I headed a few blocks over to another cafe and enjoyed a latte and a book out on their patio in the beautiful weather. 

(I bought the final book in this series over a year ago in the Tokyo airport and I'm finally getting to it. Bookhoarder problems.)

The Korean cafe aesthetic cannot be replicated. The feeling of everyone working quietly with their headphones on in a quaint little cafe with indie Korean cafe music is a definitive portrait of real, modern Korea.

If you are interested in listening to some Korean indie music and use 8tracks, I recommend these playlists for you.

카페에 앉아 from poistroc on 8tracks Radio.

chill kpop from stinkeyjean on 8tracks Radio.