{"id":262198,"date":"2026-05-27T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/27\/van-leeuwen-ice-cream-makes-its-grand-debut-in-seoul\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:50:32","slug":"van-leeuwen-ice-cream-makes-its-grand-debut-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/food\/2026\/05\/27\/van-leeuwen-ice-cream-makes-its-grand-debut-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Makes Its Grand Debut in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation result<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0077\/image-4b3fa9b5-d2ca-4530-914a-57642dbba862.jpeg\" alt=\"\ubc34\ub8e8\uc5d4\" \uc2a4\ucff1 \uc544\uc774\uc2a4\ud06c\ub9bc [\ubc34\ub8e8\uc5d4 \uc81c\uacf5] class=\"img_LSize\"> [RealFood = Reporter Yook Seong-yeon] Twosome Place \u2014 the popular dessert cafe \u2014 announced on the 27th that it&#8217;s opening the first South Korean outpost of U.S. ice cream brand Van Leeuwen in Seoul\u2019s fashionable Gangnam district.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Twosome Place signed a domestic master franchise agreement (MFA) with Van Leeuwen. 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