{"id":5355,"date":"2015-11-17T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2015-11-17T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:21:12","slug":"the-cat-cafe-in-sinchon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/11\/17\/the-cat-cafe-in-sinchon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat Cafe in Sinchon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable cafe has opened in Sinchon, just a few minutes away from the gates of Yonsei University. This &#8220;Cat Cafe&#8221; is inhabited by 19 cats who walk back and forth between the adoring customers, and also climb up the elaborate cat structures that run along the walls and the ceiling of the large room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had heard rumors about the Cat Cafe previously, but only stumbled upon it when I met someone dressed up in a cat outfit walking along the street nearby.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5356\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cat-cafe.jpg\" alt=\"cat cafe\" width=\"630\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cat-cafe.jpg 960w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cat-cafe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cat-cafe-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cat Cafe is extremely popular with young Korean girls, but it is also increasingly frequented by Chinese tourists. The staff is deeply attached to the nineteen resident cats and they are happy to relate tales about the cat fights and the rankings of the cats in the hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5358\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5358\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9122.jpg\" alt=\"Ladder up to the second level. \" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ladder up to the second level.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5359\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5359\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9121.jpg\" alt=\"Pictures of the residents lined up on the blue wall below the walkway to the skywalk the runs below the ceiling. \" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictures of the residents lined up on the blue wall below the walkway to the skywalk the runs below the ceiling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5360\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5360\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9123.jpg\" alt=\"glancing down the center of the Cat Cafe.\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">glancing down the center of the Cat Cafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5361\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5361\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9125.jpg\" alt=\"Fun facts about the cats.\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun facts about the cats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5362\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5362\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9127.jpg\" alt=\"One of the most popular mugs at Cat Cafe. \" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the most popular mugs at Cat Cafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5363\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5363\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9129.jpg\" alt=\"Special cat perch.\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special cat perch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5364\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5364\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_9140.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;dog tags&quot; for cats!\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;dog tags&#8221; for cats!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/sokoreazy.com\/2015\/03\/29\/table-a-cat-cafe-in-sinchon\/\">link<\/a> for another Cat Cafe in Sinchon when doing my homework.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable cafe has opened in Sinchon, just a few minutes away from the gates of Yonsei University. This &#8220;Cat Cafe&#8221; is inhabited by 19 cats who walk back and forth between the adoring customers, and also climb up the elaborate cat structures that run along the walls and the ceiling of the large room. &#8230; <a title=\"The Cat Cafe in Sinchon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/11\/17\/the-cat-cafe-in-sinchon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Cat Cafe in Sinchon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[651,10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}