Professor. RORA
“ World Champion & 1st Female Korea National Champion ”
2019 TOKYO World Latte Art Grand Prix – Champion
2020 KLAC Korea National Latte art Championship - Champion
2022 WLAC World Latte Art Championship 1st runner-up
2023 Thailand CP-Meiji Speed Coffee Art Competition – Champion
2019 TOKYO World Latte Art
Grand Prix – Champion
2020 KLAC Korea National Latte art
Championship - Champion
2022 WLAC World Latte Art
Championship 1st runner-up
2023 Thailand CP-Meiji Speed Coffee Art
Competition – Champion
2019 Variety Roasters Latter Art Throwdown NYC - 1st place
2019 Elmust Latte Art Throwdown LA - 1st place
2019 Califiafarms Latte Art Throwdown LA - 1st place
2019 Pesado Latte Art Championship - 1st Place
2022 KBrC Korea National Brewers Cup - Semi Finalist
2023 WLAM World Latte Art Masters Organizied & MC
2022 TV Show ㅡ “생활의 달인”
2019 Variety Roasters Latter Art
Throwdown NYC - 1st place
2019 Elmust Latte Art
Throwdown LA - 1st place
2019 Califiafarms Latte Art
Throwdown LA - 1st place
2019 Pesado Latte Art
Championship - 1st Place
2022 KBrC Korea National Brewers
Cup - Semi Finalist
2023 WLAM World Latte Art
Masters Organizied & MC
2022 TV Show ㅡ “생활의 달인”
RORA is a versatile and challenging individual. She has always ventured into various fields, becoming a gold medalist athlete and delving into piano, art, dance, music, and beauty. One morning, the fragrant and nutty aroma of brewing coffee made by her mother captivated RORA, marking the beginning of her love for coffee. This newfound interest led her to start working in a cafe, aspiring to become a barista.
Fond of the stage, she pondered whether there was an opportunity to tell her story with coffee on a stage. By chance, she saw a poster for a latte art competition and, craving a new challenge, decided to enter.
Starting latte art in 2013, 2 years later she begin her challenge in competitions. she faced elimination in the preliminaries of dozens of competitions over several years.
In 2019, she attempt again at a world competition in Japan and became the world champion by winning it. Subsequently, in 2020, she became the first Korean woman to be a national representative, secured the runner-up position at the World Latte Art Championship in 2022, and proudly won the Thailand World Championship in 2023, where over 150 baristas from around the world participated.
Her diverse experiences as an athlete and a latte art champion, thriving in a world of infinite competition, have laid a solid foundation for her to continuously excel in the new challenges of establishing and running the RO&UM company.
Professor. UMPAUL
“ 7 Times WORLD CHAMPION TITLES ”
2016 WLAC Shanghai World Latte Art Championship - Champion
2017 Coffee Fest In World Latte Art Championship - Champion
2017 MILANO World Latte Art Championship - Champion
2018 WLAB World Latte Art Battle in Korea - Champion
2019 Coffee Fest In LA World Latte Art Championship - Champion
2019 MILANO World Latte Art Championship - Champion
2022 WSBC World Super Barista Championship - Champion
2016 WLAC Shanghai World Latte Art
Championship - Champion
2017 Coffee Fest In World Latte Art
Championship - Champion
2017 MILANO World Latte Art
Championship - Champion
2018 WLAB World Latte Art
Battle in Korea - Champion
2019 Coffee Fest In LA World Latte Art
Championship - Champion
2019 MILANO World Latte Art
Championship - Champion
2022 WSBC World Super Barista
Championship - Champion
2017 Published – 라떼아트, 행복을 그리는 시간
2019 NYC Facebook & Instagram – Seminar
2020 SBS TV – 세상에 이런일이 !!!
2021 Inventor of Coffee Tamper - “Channeling Master”
2023 WLAM World Latte Art Masters Organized & MC
2017 Published – 라떼아트, 행복을 그리는 시간
2019 NYC Facebook & Instagram – Seminar
2020 SBS TV – 세상에 이런일이 !!!
2021 Inventor of Coffee Tamper -
“Channeling Master”
2023 WLAM World Latte Art
Masters Organized & MC
UMPAUL had always been curious since childhood, enjoying researching things that intrigued him and teaching them to his friends. He also liked drawing and cooking but ended up attending a college he didn't want to. One day in the winter of 2004, while worrying about his uncertain future and studying, he stopped by a small cafe to wake himself up from drowsiness.
a cappuccino of A customer sitting at the bar made UMPAUL fall in love with coffee. The coffee had a flower drawn on it using chocolate sauce.
At that moment, UMPAUL thought, "There are drawing on food. My favorite activities, cooking and drawing, are all inside this coffee cup." After that day, he decided to become a barista in that small
size of coffee shop without any hesitation.
Starting with his own brewing and roastery cafe in 2005, being able to become the Latte Art World Champion was a result of his childhood curiosity, his love for teaching friends, drawing, and cooking. This is why he have kept his love for coffee and latte art, allowing him to share it with the world for about 20 years up to 2024.
UMPAUL always pondered how he could easily share his love for coffee with the world. Thus, from 2005, he began recording his curiosity about coffee in notebooks. The accumulation and organization of these coffee books and several notebooks of trials and errors laid the foundation for the RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL, where baristas worldwide can now learn together.
UMPAUL's curiosity, along with his passion for research and education through trial and error, combined with RORA's spirit of challenge and systematic operational abilities, led to the establishment of RO&UM, named after RORA & UMPAUL's initials. This partnership enabled the development of the Channeling Master Tamper, a solution to simplify channeling—a first in the world—and the creation of the RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL, where baristas globally can study coffee easily, clearly, and in-depth.
RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL aims to globally advance everything related to coffee, including beans, product development, publishing coffee books, and merchandise. The school is committed to expanding in a global direction continuously and plans to consistently engage with the students attending the classes.
Trial and Error
Trial and error is the best teacher for all of us.
Trial and error, although we may fear failure,
helps us continue to challenge ourselves
and makes the difficult learning process more enjoyable.
Trial and error leads us from a stage of superficial knowledge
to deep exploration, transforming us from someone who knows well
to someone who can perform well.
RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL is an education that helps you gain not
the 'fear of making mistakes' but the 'courage to try new things'.
This is the class encapsulating 20 years of expertise
gained through winning numerous world championships
by RORA & UMPAUL.
RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL always support you
with the belief that you can certainly achieve it too.
We believe that, upon completing the courses
at RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL,
above all,
you will discover yourselves enjoying and loving coffee.
Trial and error is the best teacher
for all of us.
Trial and error,
although we may fear failure,
helps us continue to challenge ourselves
and makes the difficult learning process more enjoyable.
Trial and error leads us from a stage of superficial knowledge
to deep exploration, transforming us from someone who knows well
to someone who can perform well.
RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL is an education that helps you gain not
the 'fear of making mistakes' but the 'courage to try new things'.
This is the class encapsulating
20 years of expertise
gained through winning numerous world championships
by RORA & UMPAUL.
RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL
always support you
with the belief that you can certainly achieve it too.
We believe that,
upon completing the courses
at RO&UM COFFEE SCHOOL,
above all,
you will discover yourselves enjoying and loving coffee.
