Baking Happiness and Dreams
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What do people usually think about patisserie? Sweety? Tasty? Dreamy? Most of associated words are positive, because patisseries create spaces, cafés, and produce their artworks, cakes. For Kim Soo Jeong (KIM) and Ko Min Sung (KO), the things they sell are not the only sweet cakes and coffee, but also the happiness and dreams their caf makes. The Sookmyung Times (SMT) shed new light on patisseries that spread happiness to all customers.
Le Cordon Bleu, the Tie for Partners to Meet
KIM and KO have a strong ties to SMU, since they completed the 2-year baking course of Sookmyung Le Cordon Bleu (LCB). When they were studying at LCB, they decided to open the café together. Starting a small business is very risky and difficult, and it needs some guts for the challenge. KO said if we didn’t meet in LCB, our cooking place, Meringue, would not exist. After finishing the courses, KO got a job as a nutritionist and patisserie at another cake shop. She says, “I aspired to open my own shop when working, but business seemed to be too dangerous and the financial problem also became realistic.” When preparing a business, they firstly thought out baking classes to differ from other cafes. At the time they opened, there were no baking classes in normal cake shops. The café with baking classes might be the first one.
Meringue
Meringue is the café three people started. They all completed Sookmyung LCB.
Patisserie, an Attractive but Demanding Job
Kim Soo Jeong
- Completed Homebaking School Baking Course, Japan
- Instructor of GSretail Culture Center in Bucheon
- Completed Sookmyung Le Cordon Bleu
Ko Min Sung
- Graduated from Sungshin Women’s University
- Worked at Shinsegae food corp
- Worked at Copint Cake studio
- Completed Sookmyung Le Cordon Bleu