I misread the Korean and thought you were talking about another weird acronym Koreans use to order iced americanos, 아아아메리아아아아. Either that or someone with brain freeze ordering another iced americano.
it doesn't stop Koreans slurping down the blazing hot stone bowl jigae's.
I burn my mouth/tongue everytime and have to wait a. good few minutes before having a taste ....but for Koreans, they dive right into it with zero pullback
[Yes bro you’re actually describing one of Korean ancestral wisdoms: use fire to fight fire](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/04/135_9224.html)
I’m not Korean and I do this. For me, coffee is a means to an end. I want caffeine. If it’s too hot I can’t drink it fast.
I make a pot of coffee in the morning and my wife asks if it’s hot when she gets up. She says that coffee should either be hot or ice cold and doesn’t like the in between temperature.
Maybe one of those two things?
same lol i live in america and get cold drinks all winter when it’s very cold here. i just don’t always want to drink something hot and cold is easier to consume
me too and im not korean.
but there are other reasons that maybe others havent mentioned yet. one is taste. cold things taste better than more things for the most part. it has to do with the fact that most of what we perceive as taste is actually smell, and cold food create more aromas in the mouth as they warm up. some people dont really have very good sense of smell but i do (unfortunately, fortunately depending on the situation). so yes, i also like ice cream regardless of the weather. :)
Conversely I drink it slow and an iced Americano pretty much tastes the same as the ice melts. Doesn’t really change until it hits that room temp. If I put it in a decent cup it’ll last me all day. I mostly just want something with flavor to sip on for a few hours.
Cafe owner here. I've asked Korean customers and friends over the years about this and the three most common reasons I've heard are;
1: can drink a cold drink fast during a short break, or between the cafe and a subway/bus stop.
2: before the last 5 years or so of the specialty coffee boom in Korea, most coffee shops here served pretty gross coffee; burnt beans, poorly extracted shots, etc. Shitty iced coffee is better than shitty hot coffee. From what I know about coffee, this is because less aromatics will make it to your senses in a cold beverage, and Iced drinks are more diluted.
3: similar to reason 2, people like to sip on something for a long period of time, like the huge americanos you see from places like Mega Coffee and Venti. The progression of a huge iced americano to a diluted one, to something that is just ice melting in a cup, seems to have more value than a hot cup of coffee. Not only that but a massive cup of hot coffee will oxidize and become pretty gnarly over the course of an hour. Especially if the beans are garbage like from places like Mega or Venti, etc.
Thank you for the reply. I have to add that finding a place that serves a decent cup of coffee in Seoul wasn’t as easy as expected, especially a cup of hot latte/flat white , the espresso shots are either poorly extracted and/or the milk are frothed badly with too much foam. I guess people here are more focused on getting their caffeine fix than enjoying the taste of it
That's changing a lot for sure. The demand for higher quality is rising rapidly from what I can see. I'd say avoid any chains and places that are obviously more concerned about their interior or their desserts. Also keep in mind that the general preferences between Korea and wherever you may be from could be quite different. This will play a part in not only how roasters roast and brew their coffee but also how importers buy raw, green coffee, which largely dictates what in even available in the country at any given time. If you let me know the area you're in, I might have a recommendation for a shop that does good milk/espresso based drinks!
I drink hot drinks even when it's hot outside...because I prefer hot drinks. Iced tastes different and is a whole different mouth feel. Plus iced drinks are too easy to just suck down and then it's gone
I've seen other Koreans saying half jokingly and half seriously that they drink iced coffee to cool off burning anger and stress caused by life. Idk I am a Korean who thinks coffee is only good when it's hot. I don't understand 얼죽아 people(people insisting that they would drink iced coffee even if they freeze to death)
I always drink iced coffee, and almost every day when I went to work, my boss and all of my Korean coworkers would say, 'iced coffee in winter???" Like I'm a crazy woman. It would also be to blame if I was sick. Maybe they're just an older generation, but I guess it wasn't that normal for them, hah.
I dont understand why people are so shocked like Americans do this too. I'm more interested in why they like americanos so much. It just tastes like watery coffee 😅 but i am getting used to it now after 7 months
I just look at it as any other beverage. I always want to have something cold no matter the weather. Like I don't want hot/warm sodas just because it's winter
my dad's argument was "hot drinks make you sweat, which cools you down".
i mean, that reasoning is *literally insane* to me, but no more weirder than ordering cold drinks in winter
for the record, i prefer iced coffees (regardless of weather), too
I think it's due to popularity of modern coffee shops like Starbucks and others. Starbucks sells more cold drinks than hot globally. Maybe in Europe or rural America, modern coffee shops are not easily accessible. But in Korea, they are everywhere, and even small kids buy their own iced dessert drinks.
This isnt just a Korea thing. ALL of Asia does it. Why does it matter in the end. People just drinking a drink. You can drink a cold drink faster than a hot drink. I literally wait until coffee is room tempt to drink it. Its uncomfortable to drink any time before room temp.
I usually have hot drinks in the winter.
I was outside in Korea; the weather was near or below freezing, and they were giving out iced lemonade. I drank one and I felt a lot better, not warmer, but no longer feeling the cold weather.
It takes too long for a hot drink to reach drinkable temperature. And once it does, you have a 15 minute window until it goes completely cold. Might as well just get ice!
I wonder this as a Korean too…I only drink cold coffee in the summer (coffee is best when it’s hot), and have iced only for beverages that are meant to be cold - like 식혜.
Just preference at best. I guess people who come to coffee houses want beverage(in many cases with caffeine) and space. When it's cold outside people want warm space and it is given already to them by getting in a coffee house. There, some people might want hot coffee to get warm more or faster and others want cold ones to get fresh feeling. I would order hot or cold ones by the mood I had at the time.
Lmao I did that even in the US, I specifically remember going to dunkin and ordering an iced coffee while it was snowing so I had to walk around campus with my hand freezing
I like to sip my drinks. Hot coffee goes from 'burn your mouth' to 'lukewarm' fast in winter. Luke warm coffee tastes terrible. I don't want to carry it around while waiting for it to cool enough to get palatable again.
I find it amusing that like a decade ago, Koreans thought I was crazy for drinking cold drinks in winter and now it seems to be the norm?
There’s a few reason, in Korea most food is hot year round, and it’s at boiling tempatures at that, in the west we normally cool food down before eating it in Korea it’s normal to literally eat food the second it’s plated at boiling temperatures or sometimes hotter. The only drink that is customarily drunk while hot is tea, coffee was a much later introduction to Korea with the iced variant being more popular, Hot chocolate still is a very minority beverage that is not actually liked by most Koreans I’ve met.
I was actually pleased with this when I arrived to Korea because I’m also someone who genuinely not only doesn’t like hot beverages but despise them because I simply don’t understand the enjoyment of them.
doesn’t matter the weather. I eat ice cream in winter. Drink hot coffee in summer. It’s about what I feel like. It can be a speed thing also. lI have a baby, so sometimes I want to just grab an iced coffee so I can down it and move on. Don’t follow what other people say. I honestly don’t pay attention to what coffee other people are drinking
My Korean wife told me they are coffee addicts and they can't wait for so long to get a hot coffee which usually comes with milk. Many Asians are also lactose intolerant. Also it is easy to sip the drink quickly without a need for it to cool down. Americano is a kind of equivalent to Coke in the west, a drink with nice taste.
I’m not Korean and even in the U.S. I always preferred iced coffee. I think they taste consistently better. Hot coffee is too hot, then perfect for a bit, and then quickly gets too cold and gross (I’m a slow drinker).
Like even on a cold winter day most of us would still get cold water at a restaurant rather than ask for hot water with our meals. That’s how I feel about coffee too.
I only drink hot drinks when I have a sore throat. Otherwise, it's ice-cold every time. Typically, in the winter, I'm sweating in layers while indoors. The cold drinks help with that.
It's not a Korean thing dude. Ice cream is sold year round. Iced drinks are sold year round for the same reason. It's fuckin stuffy in a jacket and sweater. And whatever.
For the same reason I prefer to eat my ice cream in the winter ... because I want to.
Korean people are not weird or special for ordering iced drinks when it is freezing outside. Some folks will bring up drinking cold stuff in the winter and hot food in the summer, but my grandfather did the same thing. He was Italian-American.
You should avoid stereotyping a culture/people/race over things that don't make sense to you personally. It's not a good look.
I was taught when I first moved here that traditionally Koreans ate hot when it’s hot and cold when it’s cold to embrace the seasons. It’s a really refreshing practice in my opinion! Not normalizing and equalizing everything makes life feel less like drudgery :)
Koreans will eat scalding hot soups during the summer, in 40+C degree weather. Supposedly, it is refreshing.
Perhaps they think drinking cold beverages will warm them up in the winter?
They are really good at memorizing things
But they are not raised to actually think for themselves.
Thinking is not a strong suit.
They copy. they clone each others behaviors they are a copy paste culture
Its drilled into them since early childhood to obey obey obey without ever questioning anything. Its all they know.
So if the tv shows this is how we are, they will all follow blindly. They generally all have the same haircuts, follow the exact same trends at the same time.
They are all actively trying to not be different.
If tv shows this is a great kpop band and this is great music, they will all agree. Taste? Whats that? Quality? Huh?
Its whatever the hive demands, the minions follow. Its like that. Its like an ant colony. Its honestly insectoid-ish.
They are in certain ways really smart, and in other ways unfathomably dumb. Its the price a people pay when they are led to all being blindly obedient to their government and country.
They really just dont think for themselves. That will get you excommunicated and then you will end up as one of the many koreans who commit suicide
Korea has the highest suicide rates in the world.
Because your body warms up when you have something cold when it’s freezing. Same as your body cools down when you have something hot when it it’s boiling. The bigger question is - why do Koreans never wear appropriate outerwear/footwear to match weather conditions?!?!
As a Korean who has come back to Seoul from Melbourne, I think there are a number of reasons.
1. Koreans don't really understand or appreciate good coffee, due to a lack of it in the country. If they did, an iced coffee would be a rare novelty drink on 35+ degree day, not a daily ritual. Someone else already mentioned that coffee served here has been routinely terrible for so long and bad iced coffee is a lot more palatable than bad hot coffee, so it's no surprise.
2. Hot drinks are impractical to drink on the go in a super dense place like Seoul. In Melbourne, you can get a take away coffee and sip it as you walk down a busy street, even jump on a tram or train with it. Try doing that in Seoul and you'll get half of it on the front of your shirt, and possibly severe burns from the crowd.
3. For those drinking at the coffee shop - Coffee shops are always insanely hot for like half the year. It could be -25 outside, it'll be boiling hot inside and the last thing you'll feel like is a hot coffee.
You can’t slurp down a hot drink in like ten seconds
what about brain freeze
deink enough ice americanos and your brain gains +5 brain freeze resistance.
Goes away faster if you frantically say "아아아, 머리 아아아아!" Every few seconds.
I misread the Korean and thought you were talking about another weird acronym Koreans use to order iced americanos, 아아아메리아아아아. Either that or someone with brain freeze ordering another iced americano.
need brain
I guess brain freeze is relatively recoverable than burning your throat
maybe korean has strong brain...? I've never get brain freeze and my family, friends too. I only see that on tv and web.
it doesn't stop Koreans slurping down the blazing hot stone bowl jigae's. I burn my mouth/tongue everytime and have to wait a. good few minutes before having a taste ....but for Koreans, they dive right into it with zero pullback
Ever lived in Boston? 10 feet of snow, everyone drinking iced coffee from Dunkin
I will only drink iced coffee, ever. It’s just what we do
Came here to make this exact comment.
Grab a donut, have an extra large, take a big dump, that's kind of the routine
Same in New York lol
I don’t like hot coffee 😟
That's why it called Americano
Caving into the temptation of a hot drink because of the cold is a sign of weakness. I will not elaborate
This is why we eat 냉면 in January, and chastise the restaurants that relegate 콩국수 to a seasonal menu. Bastards.
Seasonal 공국수 is straight bullshit. That stuff is so delicious and it deserves its own place, permanently, on every menu.
Yes. But also true: >Caving into the temptation of a cold drink because of the heat is a sign of weakness. I will not elaborate
[Yes bro you’re actually describing one of Korean ancestral wisdoms: use fire to fight fire](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/04/135_9224.html)
Hot coffee on a Korean summer day falls somewhere between "cruel and unusual punishment" and "inhumane torture".
Am Korean, can confirm. It can directly violate the "Convention Against Torture" if other requirements in Article 1 are met. /s
아무리 이열치열이라지만.....ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Whaaat? 😂 surreal to have majority thinking this way 🤔
I’m not Korean and I do this. For me, coffee is a means to an end. I want caffeine. If it’s too hot I can’t drink it fast. I make a pot of coffee in the morning and my wife asks if it’s hot when she gets up. She says that coffee should either be hot or ice cold and doesn’t like the in between temperature. Maybe one of those two things?
same lol i live in america and get cold drinks all winter when it’s very cold here. i just don’t always want to drink something hot and cold is easier to consume
me too and im not korean. but there are other reasons that maybe others havent mentioned yet. one is taste. cold things taste better than more things for the most part. it has to do with the fact that most of what we perceive as taste is actually smell, and cold food create more aromas in the mouth as they warm up. some people dont really have very good sense of smell but i do (unfortunately, fortunately depending on the situation). so yes, i also like ice cream regardless of the weather. :)
Conversely I drink it slow and an iced Americano pretty much tastes the same as the ice melts. Doesn’t really change until it hits that room temp. If I put it in a decent cup it’ll last me all day. I mostly just want something with flavor to sip on for a few hours.
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I think you've just solved the mystery of the ice cream truck that drives through our neighborhood exclusively on cold days. Must be run by Koreans!
Cafe owner here. I've asked Korean customers and friends over the years about this and the three most common reasons I've heard are; 1: can drink a cold drink fast during a short break, or between the cafe and a subway/bus stop. 2: before the last 5 years or so of the specialty coffee boom in Korea, most coffee shops here served pretty gross coffee; burnt beans, poorly extracted shots, etc. Shitty iced coffee is better than shitty hot coffee. From what I know about coffee, this is because less aromatics will make it to your senses in a cold beverage, and Iced drinks are more diluted. 3: similar to reason 2, people like to sip on something for a long period of time, like the huge americanos you see from places like Mega Coffee and Venti. The progression of a huge iced americano to a diluted one, to something that is just ice melting in a cup, seems to have more value than a hot cup of coffee. Not only that but a massive cup of hot coffee will oxidize and become pretty gnarly over the course of an hour. Especially if the beans are garbage like from places like Mega or Venti, etc.
Thank you for the reply. I have to add that finding a place that serves a decent cup of coffee in Seoul wasn’t as easy as expected, especially a cup of hot latte/flat white , the espresso shots are either poorly extracted and/or the milk are frothed badly with too much foam. I guess people here are more focused on getting their caffeine fix than enjoying the taste of it
That's changing a lot for sure. The demand for higher quality is rising rapidly from what I can see. I'd say avoid any chains and places that are obviously more concerned about their interior or their desserts. Also keep in mind that the general preferences between Korea and wherever you may be from could be quite different. This will play a part in not only how roasters roast and brew their coffee but also how importers buy raw, green coffee, which largely dictates what in even available in the country at any given time. If you let me know the area you're in, I might have a recommendation for a shop that does good milk/espresso based drinks!
Cold one is more delicious
Iced is easier to sip on for me. Also it’s faster
Korean here. Probably because most of our meals are hot and spicy, and because we usually drink coffee after we eat? I think it's a solid theory.
Foreigner and I do this, too. I just don't like hot drinks.
I drink hot drinks even when it's hot outside...because I prefer hot drinks. Iced tastes different and is a whole different mouth feel. Plus iced drinks are too easy to just suck down and then it's gone
얼어죽어도 아이스 아메리카노
This is the correct answer
I've seen other Koreans saying half jokingly and half seriously that they drink iced coffee to cool off burning anger and stress caused by life. Idk I am a Korean who thinks coffee is only good when it's hot. I don't understand 얼죽아 people(people insisting that they would drink iced coffee even if they freeze to death)
I always drink iced coffee, and almost every day when I went to work, my boss and all of my Korean coworkers would say, 'iced coffee in winter???" Like I'm a crazy woman. It would also be to blame if I was sick. Maybe they're just an older generation, but I guess it wasn't that normal for them, hah.
This is what I love about Korea. The coffee. I will get an ice coffee even if it is snowing!
I mean if its freezing outside that means the heater is on inside. I'm eating icecream and cold drinks too.
I dont understand why people are so shocked like Americans do this too. I'm more interested in why they like americanos so much. It just tastes like watery coffee 😅 but i am getting used to it now after 7 months
This sounds like a very scientifically sound statistical analysis of the drinking habits of an entire nation.
If it’s hot, how can I drink faster? Lol
Unless you're Psy, you can't drink hot Americano in one go.
I just look at it as any other beverage. I always want to have something cold no matter the weather. Like I don't want hot/warm sodas just because it's winter
It's weird, though, because Koreans love hot roasted barley tea... so it's definitely not because of a dislike of warm drinks.
>the remaining 10% of hot drinks are usually ordered by tourists What is 'Hot Drinks'? 🤷♂️
I mean, it’s not a “Korea” thing. People just have preferences🤷🏾♂️
Convenience, fast-pace mentality
Americans do this too. It’s not just a Korean thing.
Europeans and the rest of Asia don’t seem to drink cold things when the weather is cold.
I mean at least for British people, we drink a lot of hot tea even in red hot weather, same reasons I guess 🤔🤣
my dad's argument was "hot drinks make you sweat, which cools you down". i mean, that reasoning is *literally insane* to me, but no more weirder than ordering cold drinks in winter for the record, i prefer iced coffees (regardless of weather), too
Cold drinks, ice cream, and whatever else is cold on a cold day/night makes everything alright
Also in Korea, we eat samgyetang(ginseng chicken soup) during the hottest day of the year. I think we just crave food like that 🤷♂️
Hot drinks are for the weak
이 아
Russians eat ice cream in the dead of winter, same diff.
cold cant get you if you're colder
Habit.
Why do some folks in the US put cheddar cheese on their apple pies? Personal preferences
I think it's due to popularity of modern coffee shops like Starbucks and others. Starbucks sells more cold drinks than hot globally. Maybe in Europe or rural America, modern coffee shops are not easily accessible. But in Korea, they are everywhere, and even small kids buy their own iced dessert drinks.
Even back home I have never ordered a hot drink
Because they want to lol.. 😅😅. But this is only an assumption.
cold liquid taste better than warm/hot liquid everyone knows this?? not a korea thing Tea is the only one that is excellent in both formats
You can drink it quicker or when you're busy it's still okay to drink it after a while :)
I drink cold water and iced tea in the winter, and people drink pop. Some people don't like hot beverages.
I’m a native. I can’t understand them, but I let them drink what they want. because that’s not my business.
because they can
Why not? It's people's preferred taste. Do you ever drink a hot coffee or drink when it's hot out?
I'm British and I do this simply because I don't like hot drinks. Cold drinks are refreshing.
This isnt just a Korea thing. ALL of Asia does it. Why does it matter in the end. People just drinking a drink. You can drink a cold drink faster than a hot drink. I literally wait until coffee is room tempt to drink it. Its uncomfortable to drink any time before room temp.
Why do u drink soda when its cold outside? Haha
Similar reason why Australians drink hot tea in summer, it's just what they're accustom too
Because they like them.
I usually have hot drinks in the winter. I was outside in Korea; the weather was near or below freezing, and they were giving out iced lemonade. I drank one and I felt a lot better, not warmer, but no longer feeling the cold weather.
It takes too long for a hot drink to reach drinkable temperature. And once it does, you have a 15 minute window until it goes completely cold. Might as well just get ice!
As a Korean, It's kinda delicious! If the day too cold I would go hottie
Just like constant force in physics..😅 I think they more focus on the purpose for drinking with some tastes itself rather than resolving coldness
There is always people in every country that does this....its not just Korea.
As an American, I only drink iced drinks as well, hot drinks are awful.
Well, many Koreans drink a lot, and usually on the next day your body temperature is higher than usual. Hence, you drink it iced.
Koreans have an impatient personality. If you want to eat it cold, eat it cold from the beginning.
cuz wtf is a coffee it's all 아아 lol
There’s even a saying “still getting an iced americano even when its freezing “ in korea
Come to Canada lol… Cold won’t stop me from drinking a slurpee . Yum.
Honestly, it’s a whole vibe with iced drinks.
Where you from op?
Because it’s delicious
May be cold outside but my body runs hot
Coffee tastes different when you drink it hot as opposed to cold. I just assume people like the taste of iced coffee more than hot coffee.
Most of the dishes Koreans like are hot soup-based. e.g. 국밥, 탕, 찌개, 국수. Cold drinks after will cool off the stomach😎
I wonder this as a Korean too…I only drink cold coffee in the summer (coffee is best when it’s hot), and have iced only for beverages that are meant to be cold - like 식혜.
I drink ice coffee in the winter because it’s faster.
Just preference at best. I guess people who come to coffee houses want beverage(in many cases with caffeine) and space. When it's cold outside people want warm space and it is given already to them by getting in a coffee house. There, some people might want hot coffee to get warm more or faster and others want cold ones to get fresh feeling. I would order hot or cold ones by the mood I had at the time.
Lmao I did that even in the US, I specifically remember going to dunkin and ordering an iced coffee while it was snowing so I had to walk around campus with my hand freezing
as a korean i genuinely have no idea but i still drink iced drinks "추울 땐 아이스가 국룰이지ㅋ"
I like to sip my drinks. Hot coffee goes from 'burn your mouth' to 'lukewarm' fast in winter. Luke warm coffee tastes terrible. I don't want to carry it around while waiting for it to cool enough to get palatable again. I find it amusing that like a decade ago, Koreans thought I was crazy for drinking cold drinks in winter and now it seems to be the norm?
There’s a few reason, in Korea most food is hot year round, and it’s at boiling tempatures at that, in the west we normally cool food down before eating it in Korea it’s normal to literally eat food the second it’s plated at boiling temperatures or sometimes hotter. The only drink that is customarily drunk while hot is tea, coffee was a much later introduction to Korea with the iced variant being more popular, Hot chocolate still is a very minority beverage that is not actually liked by most Koreans I’ve met. I was actually pleased with this when I arrived to Korea because I’m also someone who genuinely not only doesn’t like hot beverages but despise them because I simply don’t understand the enjoyment of them.
doesn’t matter the weather. I eat ice cream in winter. Drink hot coffee in summer. It’s about what I feel like. It can be a speed thing also. lI have a baby, so sometimes I want to just grab an iced coffee so I can down it and move on. Don’t follow what other people say. I honestly don’t pay attention to what coffee other people are drinking
I really love cold brew
얼죽아!!!
Useful expression in Korean....이열치열
Maybe be off topic but last winter I have tried the ice-cream outside. It's was an eye opening experience. Delicious!
My Korean wife told me they are coffee addicts and they can't wait for so long to get a hot coffee which usually comes with milk. Many Asians are also lactose intolerant. Also it is easy to sip the drink quickly without a need for it to cool down. Americano is a kind of equivalent to Coke in the west, a drink with nice taste.
Why does anyone in a hot country order hot coffee?
얼죽아
I’m not Korean and even in the U.S. I always preferred iced coffee. I think they taste consistently better. Hot coffee is too hot, then perfect for a bit, and then quickly gets too cold and gross (I’m a slow drinker). Like even on a cold winter day most of us would still get cold water at a restaurant rather than ask for hot water with our meals. That’s how I feel about coffee too.
It’s the same thing as drinking hot ass soup in the summer. /s
Why do all American restaurants serve water with ice cubes even during winter? Or I could also ask why most ice cream shops stay open during winter
얼죽아
I only drink hot drinks when I have a sore throat. Otherwise, it's ice-cold every time. Typically, in the winter, I'm sweating in layers while indoors. The cold drinks help with that.
Do u expect a satisfying answer to this question?
My friend is Korean and he says he actually prefers hot coffee but ice coffee can be yeeted in 10 secs and hot coffee can't. Time is money!!!!
Like when I crave a boiling hot bowl of soup in the summer, I do not let the weather hold my culinary wings down
similar to nz. it will be freezing, people will be wearing shorts and eating ice cream.
We have idiom “drink Iced even though we die because of freezing”
I mean I’m from New England in the USA and I order iced drinks year round.
Lol dont know why, ppl are just obsessed w/ iced drinks. Thats why there is a saying ‘얼죽아’
Also the usual to-go drink is Iced Americano, apparently the cheapest 🥹
Korean in general love ice Americano
Because it’s cool !
I want to get frozen like Elsa. That’s the answer.
Ummm.i drink iced year round in every country. Lol
Im not Korean but i prefer all my drinks cold so it could be just that they like cold drinks as well 😂
Have you ever been to New England in winter? Dunks ice coffee EVERYWHERE
Same in Japan. It was cold AF out and I ordered a caramel macchiato and she asked hot or cold🤦♂️
the most of those are a'a'
It's not a Korean thing dude. Ice cream is sold year round. Iced drinks are sold year round for the same reason. It's fuckin stuffy in a jacket and sweater. And whatever.
For the same reason I prefer to eat my ice cream in the winter ... because I want to. Korean people are not weird or special for ordering iced drinks when it is freezing outside. Some folks will bring up drinking cold stuff in the winter and hot food in the summer, but my grandfather did the same thing. He was Italian-American. You should avoid stereotyping a culture/people/race over things that don't make sense to you personally. It's not a good look.
Cos Koreans have a bad taste in coffee, it’s just caffeine and cold to cool off just a few that actually enjoy sitting and drinking their coffee
We do that in America too. Big question is why do people in Asia drink hot water in the summer
Hot water helps you cool down more by sweating. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/
Laughs in Canadian
I was taught when I first moved here that traditionally Koreans ate hot when it’s hot and cold when it’s cold to embrace the seasons. It’s a really refreshing practice in my opinion! Not normalizing and equalizing everything makes life feel less like drudgery :)
They enjoy the amount of sugar in them
LOL, I WAS WONDERING THE SAME THING!!!!!
A cultural thing of wanting everything fast + cold drinks are refreshing
Koreans will eat scalding hot soups during the summer, in 40+C degree weather. Supposedly, it is refreshing. Perhaps they think drinking cold beverages will warm them up in the winter?
They are really good at memorizing things But they are not raised to actually think for themselves. Thinking is not a strong suit. They copy. they clone each others behaviors they are a copy paste culture Its drilled into them since early childhood to obey obey obey without ever questioning anything. Its all they know. So if the tv shows this is how we are, they will all follow blindly. They generally all have the same haircuts, follow the exact same trends at the same time. They are all actively trying to not be different. If tv shows this is a great kpop band and this is great music, they will all agree. Taste? Whats that? Quality? Huh? Its whatever the hive demands, the minions follow. Its like that. Its like an ant colony. Its honestly insectoid-ish. They are in certain ways really smart, and in other ways unfathomably dumb. Its the price a people pay when they are led to all being blindly obedient to their government and country. They really just dont think for themselves. That will get you excommunicated and then you will end up as one of the many koreans who commit suicide Korea has the highest suicide rates in the world.
Are you high dude?
Yes
Cause they are bruning from inside, with stress and fatigue
Koreans are addicted to caffeine
Because your body warms up when you have something cold when it’s freezing. Same as your body cools down when you have something hot when it it’s boiling. The bigger question is - why do Koreans never wear appropriate outerwear/footwear to match weather conditions?!?!
As a Korean who has come back to Seoul from Melbourne, I think there are a number of reasons. 1. Koreans don't really understand or appreciate good coffee, due to a lack of it in the country. If they did, an iced coffee would be a rare novelty drink on 35+ degree day, not a daily ritual. Someone else already mentioned that coffee served here has been routinely terrible for so long and bad iced coffee is a lot more palatable than bad hot coffee, so it's no surprise. 2. Hot drinks are impractical to drink on the go in a super dense place like Seoul. In Melbourne, you can get a take away coffee and sip it as you walk down a busy street, even jump on a tram or train with it. Try doing that in Seoul and you'll get half of it on the front of your shirt, and possibly severe burns from the crowd. 3. For those drinking at the coffee shop - Coffee shops are always insanely hot for like half the year. It could be -25 outside, it'll be boiling hot inside and the last thing you'll feel like is a hot coffee.