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Robo-bartenders are shaking up South Korea’s cafe and bar culture
- Friday | 5th June, 2020
SEOUL (Reuters) – Robo-bartenders are shaking up South Korea’s cafe and bar culture as the country transitions from intensive social distancing to what the government calls “distancing in daily life”. In a tailored vest and bow tie, six-foot-tall Cabo narrates his actions as he carves ice for a whisky on the rocks behind the bar at Coffee Bar K in Seoul. Customers seemed encouraged by the safety the robots provided, though one pointed out a critical quality the robo-bartenders lacked. “One of the good things about going to a bar to drink is that you can chat to them about the drinks or about my worries.”Japan’s version here and South Korea’s robot barista here. (Reporting by Hyunyoung Yi, Minwoo Park, Daewoung Kim, Writing by Minwoo Park and Karishma Singh, Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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