[K-COFFEE 2] Korean barista champions talk about how they started loving coffee making

Four award-winning Korean baristas talk about how they fell in love with their lifetime passion, coffee.

Yama Kim, Jeonggi Lee, Chanho Hong, and Nate Lee (from top left to bottom right) Source: courtesy

Coffee championship organized by World Coffee Event is like Olympics or World Cup for baristas around world. Baristas from 70 counties compete for seven championship titles; Barista, Cup Tasters, Latte Art and Brewers Cup etc.

It is known that Korean baristas have shown strong performance in the national competition and a few of them won the championship.

Four award-winning Korean baristas joined SBS studio to share their outstanding achievement and distinguished passion for coffee.

In this episode, they talk about how they start to make coffee and take it serious.

Full interview is available on Podcast above.

Barista profiles:

Chanho Hong : 2017 Australian Brewers Cup Championship third place

Yama Kim: 2017 Australian Cup Tasters Championship first place

Nate Lee: 2017 NSW/ACT regional Latte Art Championship third place

Jeonggi Lee: 2017 Australian National Aeropress Championship second place