Coffice, a portmanteau term of coffee shop and office, is used in South Korea to describe how coffee shops are used for work, study and socializing. Coffice is a coffee shop habitually¹ used as an office by customers, who mooch its space, electricity, Wi-Fi and other resources. Presumably², they pay for the coffee.

 

Coffice（咖啡办公室）是韩国很流行的一个合成词（咖啡馆＋办公室），指咖啡馆在工作、学习或者社交活动中常常被用到。被称为coffice的咖啡馆会被一些顾客习惯性地当成办公室来用，他们蹭着咖啡馆的空间，电力、无线宽带以及其他资源。而他们这样做的理由，想必是因为他们已经为那里的咖啡买了单吧。

 

For example:

 

I’ll meet you at my coffice at 2pm. Here is the address.

 

咱们下午两点在我常去办公的咖啡馆见面吧。这是那里的地址。

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