Day 63: Wine Away

A short post today. Ah yes, wine bars. In America we have bars that serve wine, and most places may in fact serve wine, but Korea enjoys separating high class from low class through wine and liquor. Granted, other places play a similar game, but if you like wine in Korea it usually means you have some class. These types of wine bars have been popping up all over Seoul, this one a stone's throw from my house, but I find it interesting the wine culture in Korea, most of it more whimsical and a fallacy of people attempting to 'play high class' rather than actually knowing what they are drinking. I often wonder if people like the taste of wine or simply like the attention of others thinking they like the taste of wine. Sure, this is no different from other places, but wine has always carried with it a mark of 'I am better than you', and it is interesting, nothing more, to see such marks carried overseas to Korea.