Fongs

My friends Thomas and Marshall, and the guy who cuts Marshall's hair. Not sure I would have visited him the next day.

Pyun Sung, the owner of Fongs (favorite local bar), who went with us on the DeokJeokDo trip pictured in the previous post.

His wife Hyo Joo and my friends Heather and Liz. The fact that we don't speak more than a dozen words of the other's language doesn't seem to matter much.

My friend Peter and about half of the other teachers I work with on a recent Friday night at Fongs.

Liz, Marshall, and the owners of the local hair place.

A great Japanese style bar, called Fongs, opened up in town about six weeks ago. The owners are a young married couple who both love art and traveling. My friends and I go about once a week and are becoming great friends with them both. The husband is a chef and has started asking about our favorite foods so he can add them to the menu. Spaghetti bolognese is the most recent addition.

Wa Bar

There are a couple of bars along the main street that defines my little neighborhood. I've actually only been to one, a place called Wa Bar, pictured above. You can find a teacher from my school there most nights, and often more than a couple. Cheap drafts are 2,500 won....about $1.50. Plenty of foreign beers if you're willing to pay for them (I'm usually not). Its great to have a local place to head to. Tipping doesn't exist in Korea, which has been weird on a number of occasions, but is most noticeable when I walk away from the bar, ladden with beers, without leaving anything more than exact change behind.