promotional image of KeyKey’s “ending fairy” fake sneeze into an open hand that says “I [heart] U”
And we’re back with more Key birthday cafes! I only went to two this year, focusing instead on hanging out with my friends, but one of my friends went to a Key cafe in a different area of Seoul and brought me goodies.
To find the birthday cafes, there’s a wonderful site here that lists locations and the promos. From there I usually create a Naver list of cafes and share the list with others. There were a total of 14 Key birthday cafes in Korea, with around 10 of them being in the Seoul area.
First up was a cafe called Ordinary Archive.
The gifts here were pretty solid and the cafe was dressed up very cutely but the space also felt weird, as there was just an empty room in the front of the space with a poster and gacha machine, and only two long tables facing the walls, and yet a couch and chairs that you couldn’t sit on.
poster outside the cafe“Welcome to Keytten World” in blue and yellowcomputer display and cute postergacha machine prizes… of course I got my least favorite oneposter in the gacha roomphotos on the wallwall covered in posters with an orange, blue, and green chair in front with a large strange stuffed black cat lying across the seatsI was disappointed I couldn’t sit here and take a picture with the cat and wallmore of the cafeanother viewanother place you couldn’t sit“too small for my cheese cat”one of my favorite pictures of Keypin board with four photosthe paper cups you received, along with some cat plushiestable featuring the blue and yellow postersphotos with a black cat plushiephotos on top of an orange cratethe goodies next to a fake aquarium: cold brew, paper cup, calendar, postcard, photocard, two bookmarksBoksilee cookie
The second cafe was a few minutes’ walk away, called Lovin Idol.
This was a more traditional cafe. Unlike the first cafe, this cafe didn’t have a theme, so to speak.
entrance to the cafeposter out front of the cafeheart collage made out of photos of KeyKey poster on a window facing several tables and chairsdisplay of some albums and photobooksmore of the displayShinee World, the first concert DVDBistro de Shinee DVDHappy Key Daymore photos of Keystack of paper cups in the cornerphotos of Key on a tabledisplay on the side of the cash registerframed photos of Key on the wallblue lemonade, two boksilee cookies (vanilla and chocolate), photocards, postcard, and paper cup
After the two cafes, we were hungry so we decided to go get chicken and then to another cafe for dessert. I was pretty tired and decided to call it a day after these two cafes. I was very excited to get a new calendar for display at my desk, and bookmarks! My only annoyance is that the paper cup at the first cafe is a different size than all my other paper cups so it sits awkwardly on my shelf.
goodies from another cafe, including a plastic shot glass, plastic cup, stickers and photocards (thanks Amy!!)my friend Manu’s awesome bagmy paper cup display shelf
Koffee & Kpop 
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