Junggu Dasan Fortress Library 1st Floor 'The Masil Cafe' Opens

Opening of 'The Masil Cafe' on the 1st floor of Dasan Fortress Library in cooperation with Jung-gu Community Self-Sufficiency Center
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 AM to 8 PM, closed on Mondays
The coffee aroma enhances Dasan Fortress Library, a popular reading spot, creating a perfect healing space

Inside Dasan Fortress Library

Jung-gu District in Seoul, together with the Jung-gu Community Self-Support Center, opened 'The Masil Cafe' on the first floor of Dasan Fortress Library on the 4th.

The scent of coffee added to the forest library embracing the fortress trail is expected to create an even more perfect healing space.

The cafe is directly operated by the Jung-gu Community Self-Support Center as part of a self-support project. It provides jobs to residents participating in self-support and offers neighborhood residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy books and coffee simultaneously, achieving a win-win effect.

The operating hours are from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. It is closed on Mondays, the library's day off.

Dasan Fortress Library, which opened in May 2021, is Jung-gu’s first forest-style library. Majestic circular bookshelves extend along the high ceilings, with touches of greenery here and there to evoke freshness. On the third floor, visitors can enjoy reading while overlooking the fortress trail through large windows, making it a well-known 'reading hot spot' among local residents and book lovers.

In October, the 'Dasan Fortress Trail Arts and Culture Festival' will be held around the fortress trail and the fortress library area. It is Jung-gu’s representative cultural and arts festival featuring historical guided tours, cultural performances, history lectures, and Hanyangdoseong experiences along the fortress trail. After a pause due to COVID-19, the festival resumed last year and has been especially popular with families with children, who can enjoy plenty of sights and food while strolling the fortress trail.

The Jung-gu Community Self-Support Center helps vulnerable groups facing social, economic, and psychological difficulties achieve economic independence and life stability through self-support. By providing employment and entrepreneurship education, strengthening work capabilities, and offering job opportunities and various information, it connects self-support residents with jobs and contributes to revitalizing the local economy.

A district official said, “Dasan Fortress Library, known by everyone as a ‘view spot,’ will become a perfect hot place with the added aroma of coffee,” and recommended, “We suggest stopping by at least once on a day when you need rest or want to leisurely read a book.”

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