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Instant Coffee Mix

Coffee, creamer and sugar in one packet

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Just Add Hot Water

In 1976, a Korean food company sold coffee mix: coffee powder, creamer and sugar in one packet. You only had to add hot water. Coffee became a drink people had everywhere, at the office and at home.

Why?Before that, you had to add coffee, creamer and sugar separately to get the taste right. One packet made it quick and always the same. It suited a busy life.

Learn moreThe company is said to have made the world's first coffee mix. Long, stick-shaped packets came out in 1987.

When
1976 → 1999
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Encyclopedia of Korean Culture: Coffee (in Korean)

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Routes are simplified — drawn as the shortest path between two places — and dates vary between records. Café counts come from Korea's local business license records (rest-food shops registered as coffee shops), shown with the date of the snapshot.