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Almaty vs Seoul: 5 Things We Share (and 1 That Might Surprise You)

14/Apr/2025
Almaty vs Seoul: 5 Things We Share (and 1 That Might Surprise You)

A love letter from the mountains of Central Asia to the streets of Seoul.

 

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๐Ÿž 1. Mountains in your backyard

 

Seoul: Bukhansan, Gwanaksan, Inwangsan.

Almaty: Medeo, Shymbulak, Kok-Zhailau.

 

The difference? In Almaty, the mountains start 15 minutes from downtown.

You can sip espresso in the city and snowboard by lunch. It’s giving altitude with attitude.

 

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โ˜• 2. Coffee is a lifestyle

 

Seoul lives on iced americano.

Almaty breathes filter, flat white, and baristas with tattoos.

 

There are specialty coffee shops on every block — some in hidden courtyards, some on mountaintops.

Coffee here isn’t a drink. It’s a movement.

 

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๐ŸŒธ 3. Four real seasons, all cinematic

 • Spring: blossoms + feelings

 • Summer: golden hour till 10pm

 • Autumn: every tree turns into poetry

 • Winter: snowy fairytale meets ski-trip energy

 

Like Seoul, Almaty is a city that dresses up for each season — even our yogurt has seasonal flavors.

 

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๐ŸŽง 4. Youth drives the vibe

 

Seoul: K-pop, retro fits, cafe culture.

Almaty: indie music, vintage markets, rooftop poetry nights.

 

The city has its own scene. A bit raw, a bit charming, a bit like that one webtoon that never got translated.

 

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๐Ÿœ 5. Food = love (don’t argue)

 

In Korea: “Did you eat?”

In Almaty: “Tamakh zhe, bala.” (“Come eat, child.”)

 

And then you’re full.

Kazakh food is soulful — like jjigae with cowboy energy.

Miss home? You’ll find ramyeon. Love spice? We’ve got surprise kimchi.

 

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๐Ÿšง One difference no one talks about

 

In Seoul: People respect your space.

In Almaty: People might respectfully invade it ๐Ÿ˜…

 

Expect warm welcomes, curious questions, and the occasional “Where are you from?”

But no worries — with GotoAlmaty, you’ve got backup.

We know what’s authentic, what’s overpriced, and where the real magic happens.

 

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๐Ÿ“ฒ Check out GotoAlmaty.com, slide into our DMs, or just say “annyeong” —

we’ll help you feel at home, in the steppe.

 

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ vs ์„œ์šธ: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฎ์€ 5๊ฐ€์ง€ (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๋ง ์•ˆ ํ•˜๋Š” 1๊ฐ€์ง€)

 

์„œ์šธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์‚ฐ๋น„ํƒˆ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฐ์„ฑ ํŽธ์ง€

 

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๐Ÿž 1. ๋„์‹ฌ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฐ

 

์„œ์šธ: ๋ถํ•œ์‚ฐ, ๊ด€์•…์‚ฐ, ์ธ์™•์‚ฐ

์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ: ๋ฉ”๋ฐ์˜ค, ์‰ผ๋ถˆ๋ฝ, ์ฝ•์ž์ผ๋ผ์šฐ

 

์ฐจ์ด์ ? ์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ง„์งœ 15๋ถ„๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์‚ฐ์ด์—์š”.

๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ์ปคํ”ผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ ์‹ฌ์—” ์„ค์‚ฐ ์œ„.

์„œ์šธ์ด ํ—ฌ์‹œํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์™€์ผ๋“œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํž๋ง.

 

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โ˜• 2. ์ปคํ”ผ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ… ์ธ์ƒ

 

์„œ์šธ: ์•„์ด์Šค ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋…ธ ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ๋ชป ์‚ด์•„

์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ: ํ•„ํ„ฐ์ปคํ”ผ, ํ”Œ๋žซํ™”์ดํŠธ, ๋ฌธ์‹ ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋ฆฌ์Šคํƒ€๋“ค

 

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ์ปคํ”ผ ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ด์—์š”.

์‚ฐ์† ์นดํŽ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ˆจ์€ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์—๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  — ๊ฐ์„ฑ ๋ฏธ์ณค์–ด์š”.

 

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๐ŸŒธ 3. ์‚ฌ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ด ์ง„์งœ ์˜ˆ์ˆ 

 • ๋ด„: ๊ฝƒ + ์ธ

 • ์—ฌ๋ฆ„: 10์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณจ๋“ ํƒ€์ž„

 • ๊ฐ€์„: ๋‹จํ’์ด ์‹œ์ ์ž„

 • ๊ฒจ์šธ: ๋ˆˆ + ์Šคํ‚ค + ๊ฐ์„ฑ ํ’€ํŒŒ์›Œ

 

์„œ์šธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ๋„ ๊ณ„์ ˆ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ํ™• ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด์š”.

์š”๊ฑฐํŠธ์กฐ์ฐจ ๊ณ„์ ˆ ํ•œ์ • ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ง„์งœ.

 

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๐ŸŽง 4. ๋ฌธํ™”๋Š” ์ฒญ์ถ˜์ด ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค

 

์„œ์šธ: ์ผ€์ดํŒ, ๊ฐ์„ฑ ์นดํŽ˜, ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฟ ํŒจ์…˜

์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ: ์ธ๋”” ๋ฐด๋“œ, ๋นˆํ‹ฐ์ง€ ๋งˆ์ผ“, ๋ฃจํ”„ํƒ‘ ๋‚ญ๋…ํšŒ

 

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ณ , ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์ด๊ณ , ์›นํˆฐ 12ํ™” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—์š”.

 

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๐Ÿœ 5. ๋ฐฅ = ์‚ฌ๋ž‘

 

ํ•œ๊ตญ: “๋ฐฅ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด?”

์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ: “ะ–าฏั€, ั‚ะฐะผะฐา› ั–ัˆ!” (์ค„, ํƒ€๋งˆํฌ ์ด์‰ฌ!) — “๋ฐฅ ๋จน์ž, ์• ๊ธฐ์•ผ”

 

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์š”.

์นด์žํ ์Œ์‹์€ ์ฐŒ๊ฐœ์— ์นด์šฐ๋ณด์ด ๊ธฐ์šด ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ.

๋งต๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค? ๊ฑฑ์ • ๋งˆ์š”. ๊น€์น˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์†Œ์Šค๋„ ์žˆ์Œ ๐Ÿ˜‰

 

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๐Ÿšง ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๋ง ์•ˆ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€

 

์„œ์šธ: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‘๊ธฐ ์™„๋ฒฝ

์•Œ๋งˆํ‹ฐ: ๊ฐ€๋” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์›Œ์š” ๐Ÿ˜…

 

“์–ด๋””์„œ ์™”์–ด์š”?” “์นด์žํ์Šคํƒ„ ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ฑฑ์ • ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” — GotoAlmaty๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.

์ง„์งœ ๋กœ์ปฌ ๊ฐ์„ฑ, ๊ณผํ•œ ๊ด€๊ด‘์ง€๋Š” NO, ์ข‹์€ ๊ณณ๋งŒ ๊ณจ๋ผ๋“œ๋ ค์š”.

 

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