By I seriously doubt this is just a coffee shop problem because I seen plenty of other reports in the Korean media about restaurants using old and expired food to serve to their customers:
Eighteen coffee shops in Seoul, including some branches of The Coffee Bean and Hollys Coffee, were found to have violated food safety regulations, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.
Violations include using ingredients that have passed their expiration date and using ingredients which lack proper food labeling.
The Korea FDA said that it conducted a food safety check on 70 coffee shops in Korea and found the 18 to have violated safety rules. It plans to request administrative measures against the shops. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
3:48 am on March 27th, 2010 1
You can get the locations of those 18 at this link by opening the .hwp file:
http://kfda.korea.kr/gonews/branch.do?act=detailV…
8:24 am on March 27th, 2010 2
One more reason why I roast my own beans and own an espresso maker.
10:43 am on March 27th, 2010 3
really….Korea has a Food and Drug Administration inspecting places? Wonder how much I will have to pay to pass an inspection?
10:47 am on March 27th, 2010 4
True, but the bureaucrats more than likely targeted the coffee shops because, in a way, they are soft targets. Think of it, essentially a foreign import, frequented by young women, paying stupid amounts of money for mediocre coffee. Hits a lot buttons for certain people in this country.
11:02 am on March 27th, 2010 5
Meanwhile ajummas are re-serving the same old kimchi as a side dish to customers for the second year in a row at one of those Korean restaurants while granny ajumma in the back is serving up another heaping helping of (supposedly illegal) dog meat stew. Yummy!
11:59 am on March 27th, 2010 6
What type of coffe shops are they talking about? The kind that deliver?
12:20 pm on March 27th, 2010 7
My favorite kind.
11:14 pm on March 27th, 2010 8
Probably all guys, too.
11:18 pm on March 27th, 2010 9
Nothing grosses me out more than the bowl of soy sauce found on the counters of o-ddeng stands.
9:37 am on March 28th, 2010 10
heh, when I tried that link I got a coffee…
"Java for Chrome
Google Chrome requires Java 6 Update 12 or greater (Java 6u12+), as indicated in the Google Chrome Help Center"
http://java.com/