Haeundae Beach view café where you pick tea by scent: Suwolgyeonghwa

What kind of café is Suwolgyeonghwa?

Suwolgyeonghwa is a traditional tea café with an ocean view of Haeundae Beach, on the 4th floor of a building at 188 Songjeong-jungang-ro 6beon-gil, Haeundae-gu, Busan. It's open Mon–Sun 11:00–23:00, with last order at 22:30, and has a private parking area. You can see the beach train from here, and it's received the Blue Ribbon award two years running (2025, 2026).

My friend and I were sightseeing around Haeundae and looking for an ocean-view café when we came across Suwolgyeonghwa, and the vibe was great! Suwolgyeonghwa means 'moon reflected in water, flower reflected in a mirror' — let's get into the honest review!

Where do you park at Suwolgyeonghwa?

The parking lot is right below Suwolgyeonghwa! Most people seem to double-park there.

You can park in this spot

This is the view looking down from the building, but note that the numbered parking spots here are not the ones covered — be careful!

Climbing to the 4th floor: stair entrance and photo zone

You have to climb the stairs to get to Suwolgyeonghwa — it's on the 4th floor. The entrance was curtained off with a tent-like fabric, and with ocean-sound BGM playing, the covered staircase felt mysterious! There was a sense of anticipation, like entering a whole new space, haha.

Once you go up, there are spaces draped in the same fabric, and there was a photo zone in the middle!

Floor-to-ceiling ocean view and hanok-style interior

The moment you step in, the view makes you go 'wow...' The floor-to-ceiling window shows the beach

Inside felt like a traditional Korean tea house done up with a stylish fusion twist. The space blended hanok (traditional Korean house) sensibility with a calm atmosphere.

The rattan chairs and soft indirect lighting really go well together, don't they?

As it gets a bit darker, the mood shifts little by little.

Each space was decorated like a minhwa (Korean folk painting), with details evoking old-time Korea everywhere you looked.

The tea bag corner: smelling the loose tea leaves

Especially this space!

Tea bags were on display, and I thought it'd be a great spot for foreign visitors to buy tea. At Suwolgyeonghwa, they brew their own blended teas and quality leaves sourced directly from top domestic tea farms, so you can really enjoy the tea here.

You can also see the beach train from this café! There's even a sign with the direction and timing of the train, so check that out.

The happiness of drinking tea with this view... it was so good.

Suwolgyeonghwa menu and how to order at the kiosk

Here's the menu! I liked that it was done up like a little booklet — felt like real care went into it.

Ordering is done via kiosk~

There are honestly so many menu items! But since this place has that hanok vibe, I was really curious about the tea! We ordered

• Bomulgyeol tea ₩8,500
• Hojicha coffee ₩8,000
• Dalbodeure box ₩13,000

That's what we ordered.

They bring it all out so cutely on a wooden tray.

The Dalbodeure box especially looked like a lunchbox — isn't it adorable, like playing house?

What does Bomulgyeol tea taste like?

This is the Bomulgyeol tea and the hojicha coffee. For the Bomulgyeol tea, they give you a bit of the leaf on top so you can smell the aroma first!

You don't eat it, just smell it — and it had such a sweet, tangy scent that I picked this tea because of it!

Bomulgyeol tea (meaning 'spring waves') is a green tea made from tender young leaves that capture the first energy of spring, with a soft, fresh fragrance! It wasn't a bland tea that's all scent and no flavor — it actually tasted a little sweet, just like it smelled!

You can smell each tea before choosing, so pick whichever scent you like best! It was fun.

Hojicha coffee (hoji-gabae), 8,000 won

My friend drank her hojicha coffee a little faster than I could take a photo, haha, so I snapped this in a rush, but the milk and hojicha syrup went so well together! It had a rich yet sweet-and-slightly-bitter taste!

What's in the Dalbodeure box: gamtae-myeongnan financier and red bean butter monaka

This is the gamtae (seaweed) mentaiko financier from the Dalbodeure box! So unique, right? Gamtae, of all things!!! An East-meets-West harmony of Korean gamtae and Western financier, haha. It had a slight seafood flavor, and eating it with the bread felt a little unusual at first, but since I like both elements, it wasn't hard to enjoy.

The red bean anbutter monaka! Inside the monaka wafer shell is a meeting of red bean paste, French gourmet butter, nuts, and chewy rice cake. It was packed with so much red bean, which I loved! And it really captured that distinctive dense, chewy texture monaka is known for! I kept thinking foreign visitors would love this, haha.

My friend and I debated whether this really counted as geongongamli (the four trigrams pattern) — looked at it lengthwise and it seemed different again, haha.

Is Suwolgyeonghwa worth a visit? Final verdict

The atmosphere is really great. Having the ocean right in view was wonderful too. It really captured that feeling of quietly sipping tea in a hanok café! It's a nicely calm café, so I came away well rested.

If you're looking for a tea house with a view of Haeundae Beach, and especially if you're planning to bring foreign friends along, I highly recommend it!