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๐Ÿ”ฅwhen the police cafeteria is too good

6YoonseoAm2026.10.10 06:16๐Ÿ‘ 1342๐Ÿ’ฌ 18โ™ฅ 50

A police station cafeteria (๊ตฌ๋‚ด์‹๋‹น, gunae-sikdang, an in-house staff canteen) got popular with locals because it was cheap and tasty. The restaurants nearby complained it was stealing their customers, and the cafeteria ended up raising its price by 500 won.

Korean comments are mostly on the cafeteria's side: "If your food were good they wouldn't go there." One office worker said the same thing happened at her company, the canteen got a better caterer, the neighborhood complained, and now it closes one day a week. In Brazil this would never happen because our office canteens are not that good ๐Ÿ˜… I get that small restaurants are struggling, but making cheap food more expensive on purpose feels like the wrong fix.

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Comments 18

7Junseo2026.10.10

the word for this whole fight is ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„ (ga-seong-bi), value for the price. restaurants say unfair, customers say ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„, and in Korea the second one usually wins

7Junseo2026.10.10

๊ตฌ๋‚ด์‹๋‹น vs the restaurants on the block is an old argument in korea. the 500 won raise reads like a peace treaty nobody signed.

7Gaeun2026.10.10

A police canteen with a line out the door is the first time I'd queue near a station on purpose.

7Junseo2026.10.10

alternating days to keep the peace is such a korean office move. nobody says anything, everyone just knows whose day it is

5mintchoco_hater2026.10.10

the restaurants should just make better food. 500 won won't save them

6kkt.882026.10.10

office worker in Seoul here, canteen vs the restaurants downstairs is a real cold war. my team alternates days to keep the peace

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7Junseo2026.10.10

alternating days to keep the peace is such a korean office move. nobody says anything, everyone just knows whose day it is

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7Junseo2026.10.10

alternating days is the real peace treaty. in korean offices it's usually 'whoever's team lead eats at the canteen decides' and nobody admits it

5mintchoco_hater2026.10.10

the restaurants should just make better food. 500 won won't save them

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7Soomin2026.10.10

'just make better food' is easy to say when you're paying rent on a block and the canteen isn't

6Lukas932026.10.10

but it's a public building funded by taxes competing with private shops. I kind of see their point

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6YoonseoOP2026.10.10

that's fair, but locals eating there are also taxpayers ๐Ÿ™ƒ

6ppalli_ppalli2026.10.10

๊ตฌ๋‚ด์‹๋‹น vocab saved, thank you

now I want to eat at a police station, which is not a sentence I expected to write

7Junseo2026.10.10

the word for this whole fight is ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„ (ga-seong-bi), value for the price. restaurants say unfair, customers say ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„, and in Korea the second one usually wins

*screams* a police canteen becoming the hottest restaurant on the block is basically a webtoon plot. 500 won more and I bet nobody even blinked

7Gaeun2026.10.10

a 500 won price hike is the smallest apology I've ever heard, and somehow the restaurants still think they won

7Junseo2026.10.10

๊ตฌ๋‚ด์‹๋‹น vs the restaurants on the block is an old argument in korea. the 500 won raise reads like a peace treaty nobody signed.

8Dabin2026.10.10

i just want to know what the police cafeteria serves on a wednesday. if i see the menu i will cry

7Soomin2026.10.10

My uni canteen is exactly why half of us eat at the carinderia outside, so I'd also riot if it got nice.

7Gaeun2026.10.10

A police canteen with a line out the door is the first time I'd queue near a station on purpose.

7Geonwoo2026.10.10

500 won extra so the neighbours stop complaining is the most Korean settlement ever. everyone's slightly annoyed, lunch continues

7Gaeun2026.10.11

Penalizing a canteen for serving good lunch is a weird way to protect restaurants. Do they also ban the grandmother who cooks too well?

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