Is it a bookstore, or a coffee shop?
The shop is located in a quiet residential alley in Mangwon-dong, close to Mangwon Station. I happened to drop by.
One wall of the roughly four-pyeong shop is lined with bookshelves. In the center, there's a rectangular flat counter, and there are two chairs along the window and two more along a wall. The chairs are quite comfortable. The books are primarily humanities titles.
The owner exudes a strong humanistic aura. Their voice is quiet, and they are very considerate.
I ordered a Costa Rican drip coffee. It had almost no acidity. Like typical drip coffee, it was clean, but there was something else to it. What should I call it, perhaps deep? Maybe the scent of books had permeated the coffee. Every last drop was clean. In any case, it was a good taste.
When I told the owner the coffee tasted good, they seemed pleased. They told me they originally worked with coffee but opened a bookstore because they loved books, and they continue to do coffee alongside it.
Kakao Map lists it as a bookstore.
The music, with its indie feel, also suits this independent bookstore well.
In an alley where cars don't pass and only bicycles or people slowly go by, a shop like this is also wonderful.
I also encountered a book here: Ted Chiang's 'Exhalation'. He seems to be a quite famous author in the SF genre. I read just two or three pages briefly, and the writing style is excellent. It reminded me of reading 'The Eclipse' by, who was it, the Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano.
The shop name 'Scatter' means 'to sprinkle'. It's a name that embodies the owner's desire to share good books. Having tasted the coffee, it seems delicious coffee should also be added to that description.
If you love both books and coffee, Scatter Coffee in Mangwon-dong is the place.