Visitors sit in a Starbucks store offering a view of North Korea from a South Korean observation at Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo on July 1, 2026. The contrast cannot be starker: people sipping coffee at Starbucks -- an icon of globalisation and capitalism -- while looking out over the world's most reclusive nation, communist North Korea. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'SKOREA-NKOREA-ECONOMY-CULTURE-COFFEE,FOCUS' by Kang Jin-kyu