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이태원 중심가에서 번잡한 곳을 바로 뒤로하면 한적한 느낌의 까페가 있다.

다양한 빵과 음료수도 판매하니, 조용한 시간을 보내기에 좋다.

한가로운 느낌을 받고 싶다면 아주 적합한 장소이다.

브런치로 유명하다. 

한잔의 커피나 맥주 그리고 와인 등을 즐기고 싶다면 친구, 연인들과 함께 방문하면 좋은 장소이다.

가격도 적당하고 규모도 아담하니 담소 나누기에 좋다.

주중에 시간이 안된다면 주말에 늦게 일어나서 들리면 좋은 장소이다. 차량을 가지고 왔을 경우에는 발렛을 하면 된다.

주소☞ 서울시 용산구 한남동 이태원로55길 11 2층

(2F. 11, Itaewon-ro 55-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, KOREA)

감독: Ron Howard

주연: Tom Hanks/Audrey Tautou/Ian McKellen/Alfred Molina/Jürgen Prochnow/Paul Bettany/Jean Reno

* This film is based on Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel of the same name. 

프랑스 파리에 특별강연을 위해서 체류중이던 하버드대 기호학자 로버트 랭던(톰 행크스)은 늦은밤에 긴급호출을 받게 된다. 루브르 박물관의 수석 큐레이터인 자크 소니에르가 박물관 내에서 살해당한 것이다. 그의 시체를 중심으로 둘러싸인 이해할 수 없는 암호들. 그 가운데 'P.S. 로버트 랭던을 찾아라'는 암호로 살인누명까지 뒤집어쓴 랭던은 자크의 손녀이자 기호학자인 소피 느뷔(오드리 토투)와 함께 불가사의한 수수께끼를 풀어나가는 story.

Jacques Saunière, the Louvre's curator, is pursued through the Grand Gallery by an albino Catholic monk named Silas, who demands the location of the Priory's "keystone" to find and destroy the Holy Grail. Saunière gives him a false lead and is murdered. When the police arrive, they find his body posed like Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The police captain, Bezu Fache, sends his lieutenant, Jérôme Collet, to summon American symbologist Robert Langdon, in the midst of signing autographs after a public lecture on the interpretation of symbols, to examine Saunière's body.

At the museum, Langdon is shown the body, and a secret message, readable only by blacklight, that contains an out-of-order Fibonacci sequence. Sophie Neveu, a police cryptographer and Saunière's granddaughter, reveals to Langdon that Fache planted a tracker on him after finding the words "P.S. Find Robert Langdon" at the end of Saunière's secret message, leading Fache to believe Langdon murdered Saunière. The two get rid of the tracker, distracting the police, and sneak around the Louvre, finding more clues in Leonardo da Vinci's works, eventually leading to Langdon to deduce that Saunière was the grand master of the Priory of Sion.

Silas is revealed to be working for an anonymous person named the Teacher, along with members of Opus Dei, led by Bishop Aringarosa. Evading the police, Langdon and Sophie travel to the Depository Bank of Zurich, where they access a safe deposit box of Saunière's, using the Fibonacci sequence. Inside the box is a cryptex, a cylindrical container that can only be safely opened by turning dials to spell a code word, and which contains a message on papyrus. The police arrive outside and Langdon and Sophie are aided by the bank manager, Andre Vernet, only for him to attempt to take the cryptex and murder them. Langdon disarms Vernet and flees with Sophie and the cryptex.

The two visit Langdon's friend, Sir Leigh Teabing, a Holy Grail expert who walks using crutches. Teabing claims the Grail is not a cup but instead, Mary Magdalene, who was not a prostitute but was in fact the wife of Jesus Christ. Teabing argues that she was pregnant during His crucifixion, and the Priory was formed to protect their descendants. The Opus Dei have been trying to destroy the Grail to preserve the credibility of the Vatican. Later, Silas breaks into Teabing's house, but Teabing, using one of his crutches, disables him. The group escapes to London via Teabing's private plane, along with his butler, Remy Jean. They travel to the Temple Church, but the clue to unlocking the cryptex is a red herring. Silas is freed by Remy while claiming to be the Teacher and taking Teabing hostage, dumping him in the car trunk, and taking Silas to hide out in an Opus Dei safe house. Teabing, who is revealed to be the Teacher, later poisons Remy and sends the police after Silas. Silas is shot by the police after accidentally wounding Aringarosa, who is promptly arrested by Fache, who resents being used to hunt Langdon.

Langdon and Sophie are confronted by Teabing, who wants to bring down the Church for centuries of persecution and deceit. The trio goes to Westminster Abbey to the tomb of Isaac Newton, a former grand master of the Priory. Teabing demands that the pair open the cryptex. Langdon tries and then tosses the cryptex into the air. Teabing dives for it, catches it, but vinegar dribbles and the papyrus thought destroyed. The police arrive to arrest Teabing, who realizes Langdon must have solved the cryptex's code and removed the papyrus. The code is revealed to be "APPLE", after the apocryphal myth of the apple which led Newton to discover his law of universal gravitation. The clue inside the cryptex, which tells of the Grail hiding "'neath the rose", leads Langdon and Sophie to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland.

Inside the chapel, they discover Magdalene's tomb has been removed. Langdon, after searching through documents, realizes that Sophie's family died in a car crash, that Saunière was not her grandfather but her protector, and that she is the last descendant of Jesus Christ. The two are greeted by several members of the Priory, including Sophie's grandmother, who promises to protect her. Langdon and Sophie part ways, the former returning to Paris. While shaving, he cuts himself and has an epiphany when his blood curves down the sink, reminding him of the Rose Line. Realizing the true meaning of the cryptex clue, he follows the line to the Louvre, concluding the Holy Grail, the sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene, is hidden below the Pyramide Inversée. Langdon kneels above it.

감독: Gabriele Muccino

주연: Will Smith/Thandie Newton/Jaden Smith

* This film is based on book ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ by Chris Gardner

의료기기를 판매하는 세일즈맨인 크리스 가드너(윌 스미스)는 물건을 팔기 위해 하루하루 매일 최선을 다하지만 성과는 마음대로 되지 않는다. 결국 아내는 집을 떠나고, homeless 신세가 된다.

절망적이지만 하나뿐인 아들 ‘크리스토퍼’(제이든 스미스)를 위해서 살아남아야 하는 그에게 기회가 찾아 온다. 치열한 경쟁 속에서 반드시 행복해져야 하는 그의 절실한 도전이 시작되는 story.

In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner invests his entire life savings in portable bone density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in his life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda, who works as a hotel maid. The financial instability increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for Christopher Jr., their soon-to-be five-year-old son. Because Chris has trouble selling the scanners, as they only produce a slightly better picture than a common X-ray but for a much higher price, and hence does not have enough money to make ends meet, Linda has to work double shifts.

While Gardner is trying to sell one of the scanners, he meets Jay Twistle, a manager for Dean Witter Reynolds, and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a taxi ride. (This incident did not happen in real life. It was added to the movie for artistic reasons.) After Jay leaves, Gardner lacks money to pay the fare and chooses to run instead, causing the driver to angrily chase him into a BART station. Gardner boards a train but loses one of his scanners in the process. His new relationship with Jay earns him the chance to become an intern stockbroker. The day before the interview, Gardner grudgingly agrees to paint his apartment so as to postpone being evicted due to his difficulty in paying the rent. While painting, Gardner is greeted by two policemen at his doorstep, who take him to the station, stating he has to pay for the numerous parking tickets he has accumulated. As part of the sanction, Gardner is ordered to spend the night in jail instead, complicating his schedule for the interview the next morning. He manages to arrive at Dean Witter's office on time, albeit still in his shabby clothes, wearing his undershirt, a gray jacket and jeans, which have paint splashes on them. Despite his appearance, he impresses the interviewers and lands an unpaid internship. He would be among 20 interns competing for a paid position as a stockbroker.

Gardner's unpaid internship does not please Linda, who eventually leaves for New York because she might get a job at her sister's boyfriend's new restaurant. After Gardner bluntly says she is incapable of being a single mom, she agrees that Christopher Jr. will remain with his dad. Gardner is further set back when his bank account is garnished by the IRS for unpaid income taxes, and he and Christopher are evicted. He ends up with only $21.33, resulting in them being homeless, and they are forced at one point to stay in a restroom at a BART station overnight. Other days, he and Christopher spend nights at a homeless shelter, in BART, or, if he manages to procure sufficient cash, at a hotel. Later, Gardner finds the bone scanner that he lost in the BART station earlier and, after repairing it, sells it to a physician, thus completing all his sales of his scanners.

Disadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the broker position, Gardner develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently, including reaching out to potential high-value customers, defying protocol. One sympathetic prospect who is a top-level pension fund manager even takes Chris and Christopher to a San Francisco 49ers game. Regardless of his challenges, he never reveals his lowly circumstances to his colleagues, even going so far as to lend one of his bosses $5 for cab fare, a sum that he cannot afford. Concluding his six-month-internship, Gardner is called into a meeting with his managers. One of them notes he is wearing a new shirt. Gardner explains it is his last day and thought to dress for the occasion. The manager Martin Frohm smiles and says he should wear another new one tomorrow, letting him know that he has won the coveted full-time position and giving him back his $5 as he promised. Fighting back tears, Gardner shakes hands with them, then rushes to his son's daycare to embrace Christopher. They walk down the street, joking with each other (and are passed by the real Chris Gardner, in a business suit). The epilogue reveals that Gardner went on to form his own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm.

F-1 비자

학생 비자 중 가장 일반적인 종류의 비자입니다. 인가받은 미국 단과대학이나 종합대학, 사립 고등학교와 같은 허가된 학교나 인가받은 영어 프로그램을 다니기 위해 미국 유학을 희망하는 경우 F-1 비자가 필요합니다. 학업이 주 당 18시간 이상의 수업을 듣는 경우에도 역시 F-1 비자가 필요합니다.

♣ 구비서류

1) DS-160 확인 페이지.  

2) 유효한 여권 (여권은 미국에 실제 체류 할 기간보다 최소 6개월의 이상 유효 기간이 남아 있어야 합니다)

3) 최근 6개월 이내에 촬영한 2"x2"(5cmx5cm) 크기의 사진 한 장.

4) 미국 학교 또는 프로그램의 입학 허가서 I-20 원본

5) SEVIS 수수료를 납부했음을 증명하는 I-901 SEVIS 납부 영수증.($350) ☞ SEVIS 납부하기

♣ 신청 방법

1단계

비이민 비자 온라인 신청서(DS-160)작성:  ☞ 온라인 DS-160 양식 

2단계

비자 신청 수수료 납부($160)

3단계

인터뷰 일자를 예약 ☞ 인터뷰 예약바로가기

입학 허가서인 I-20 양식의, Start date of your program 이라는 란에 날짜가 학생 비자는 그 날짜 보다 120 일 이전에 발급할 수 없음.

<인터뷰 예약에 필요한 세가지 정보>

1) 여권 번호

2) 비자수수료를 인터넷 뱅킹을 통해 이체할 때 사용한 입금계좌번호 또는 씨티은행에서 비자 수수료 납부 후 받은 영수증에 기재된 “거래번호”

3) DS-160 확인 페이지의 열(10)자리 바코드 번호

4단계

비자 인터뷰 예약 날짜 및 시간에 맞추어 미국 대사관을 방문.

<예약 확인서, 출력한 DS-160 확인 페이지, 최근 6개월 이내 촬영한 사진 한 장, 현 여권 및 모든 전 여권을 함께 가져가야 함.> 

[참조: 주한미국대사관]

감독: Christopher Nolan

주연: Leonardo DiCaprio/Ken Watanabe/Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Marion Cotillard/Ellen Page/Tom Hardy/Cillian Murphy/Tom Berenger/Michael Caine

드림머신의 기계로 타인의 꿈에 접속을 하여 생각을 빼낼 수 있는 미래사회의 현장. ‘돔 코브’(레오나르도 디카프리오)는 특수보안요원이자 최고의 실력으로 생각을 훔치는 도둑이다. 한 사고로 국제적인 수배자가 된 그는 기업간의 전쟁으로 인하여 모든 것을 되찾을 수 있는 기회를 맞이하게 된다. 그러나 그의 임무는 머릿속의 정보를 훔쳐내는 것이 아니라, 반대로 머릿속에 정보를 입력시켜야 하는 것이다. 돔은 ‘인셉션’이라는 이 작전을 성공시키기 위해 최고의 팀을 조직한다. 불가능적인 이 일을 반드시 이겨야 하는 게임 story.

Dominick "Dom" Cobb and Arthur are "extractors": they perform corporate espionage using experimental military technology to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract valuable information through a shared dream world. Their latest target, Japanese businessman Saito, reveals that he arranged their mission himself to test Cobb for a seemingly impossible job: implanting an idea in a person's subconscious, or "inception". To break up the energy conglomerate of ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, Saito wants Cobb to convince Fischer's son and heir, Robert, to dissolve his father's company. In return, Saito promises to use his influence once the job is done to clear Cobb's apparent criminal status, which prevents him from returning home to his children.

Though Arthur is convinced that the task is impossible, Cobb insists that it can be done. Cobb accepts the offer and assembles his team: Eames, a conman and identity forger; Yusuf, a chemist who concocts a powerful sedative for a stable "dream within a dream" strategy; and Ariadne, an architecture student tasked with designing the labyrinth of the dream landscapes recruited with the help of Cobb's father-in-law, Professor Stephen Miles. While dream-sharing with Cobb, Ariadne learns his subconscious houses an invasive projection of his late wife Mal.

After Maurice dies in Sydney, Robert Fischer accompanies the body on a ten-hour flight back to Los Angeles, which the team (including Saito, who wants to verify their success) uses as an opportunity to sedate and take Robert into a shared dream. At each dream level, the person generating the dream stays behind to set up a "kick" that will be used to awaken the other sleeping team members from the deeper dream level; to be successful, these kicks must occur simultaneously at each dream level, a fact complicated due to the nature of time which flows much faster in each successive level. They use Non, je ne regrette rien as an auditory cue to help coordinate the kicks. The first level is Yusuf's dream of a rainy Los Angeles. The team abducts Robert, but they are attacked by armed projections from his subconscious, which has been specifically trained to defend against such intruders. The team takes Robert and a wounded Saito to a warehouse, where Cobb reveals that while dying in the dream would normally wake Saito up, the powerful sedatives needed to stabilize the multi-level dream will instead send a dying dreamer into "limbo": a world of infinite subconscious from which escape is extremely difficult, if not impossible, and in which a dreamer risks forgetting they are in a dream. Despite these setbacks, the team continues with the mission.

Eames impersonates Robert's godfather, Peter Browning, to suggest Robert reconsider his father's will. Yusuf drives them around in a van as the rest are sedated into the second level, a hotel dreamed by Arthur. Cobb persuades Robert that he has been kidnapped by Browning and Cobb is his subconscious protector. Cobb persuades him to go down another level to explore Browning's subconscious (in reality, it is a ruse to enter Robert's). The third level is a fortified hospital on a snowy mountain dreamed by Eames. The team has to infiltrate it and hold off the guards as Saito takes Robert into the equivalent of his subconscious. Yusuf, under pursuit by Robert's projections in the first level, deliberately drives off a bridge and initiates his kick too soon. This causes an avalanche in Eames' level and removes the gravity of Arthur's level, forcing him to improvise a new kick synchronized with the van hitting the water. Mal's projection emerges and kills Robert; Cobb kills Mal, and Saito succumbs to his wounds. Cobb and Ariadne enter Limbo to rescue Robert and Saito, while Eames sets up a kick by rigging the hospital with explosives.

Cobb reveals to Ariadne that he and Mal went to Limbo while experimenting with the dream-sharing technology. Sedated for a few hours of real time, they spent fifty years in a dream constructing a world from their shared memories. When Mal refused to return to reality, Cobb used a rudimentary form of inception by reactivating her totem (an object dreamers use to distinguish dreams from reality) and reminding her subconscious that their world was not real. However, after waking up, Mal still believed that she was dreaming. In an attempt to "wake up" for real, Mal committed suicide and framed Cobb for her death to force him to do the same. Facing a murder charge, Cobb fled the U.S., leaving his children in the care of his father-in-law.

Through his confession, Cobb makes peace with his guilt over Mal's death. Ariadne kills Mal's projection and wakes Robert up with a kick. Revived at the mountain fort, he enters a safe room to discover and accept the planted idea: a projection of his dying father telling him to be his own man. While Cobb remains in Limbo to search for Saito, the other team members ride the synchronized kicks back to reality. Cobb eventually finds an aged Saito in Limbo and reminds him of their agreement. The dreamers all awake on the plane and Saito makes a phone call.

Upon arrival at Los Angeles Airport, Cobb passes the U.S. immigration checkpoint and Professor Miles accompanies him to his home. Using Mal's old totem—a spinning top that spins indefinitely in a dream world but falls over in reality—Cobb conducts a test to prove that he is indeed in the real world, but he does not observe its result and instead joins his children in the garden.