우리나라 커피 역사의 기원 고찰

A Study on the Origin of Coffee History in Korea

This is a thesis that traces the history of the first transmission of coffee to Korea. It contains a new argument overcoming the story of Emperor Gojong in the 1890s and Percival Lowell in the 1880s, which were known until now regarding the first coffee drinking in Korea. On March 6, 1860, the 11th year of King Cheoljong, Bishop Siméon Berneux, who was the head of the Joseon dynasty of the Paris Foreign Missions Society(MEP), wrote a letter requesting the purchase of coffee and sent it to Bishop Libois, the Far East representative of MEP in Hong Kong. It was an uneasy situation when the cholera epidemic and Catholic persecution resumed. The coffee beans ordered arrived at the village of Jaam outside of Namdaemun, Hanyang in Chosun, on April 7, 1861, after a year, one month and one day. This sweet coffee brought great comfort to Bishop Siméon Berneux. In this way, the process of delivering and drinking coffee for the first time in the Chosun Dynasty and its meaning were meticulously reconstructed with the focus on the primary sources. The amount of coffee that first flowed into our land on this day was not small, and it was interpreted that among the early people who drank it, not only French missionaries but also Korean believers around them were included. This is the first page of the history of Korean coffee, which was created using knowledge of the world's coffee history and new sources.