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This weekend me, Chad and Jen went down to Busan to visit a newly-landed Andrea Teacher and make jackasses of ourselves on the south coast. We succeeded admirably, having a grand time raiding museums and beaches and sprawling markets between torrential downpours of rain (we seriously can't head south anymore without mortally offending the weather gods, it seems). But, most importantly, we stumbled across a very special cultural event which can only be properly summarized with one word: "Badass." Sadly Badass will have to wait until tomorrow, because I am rather pooched from mass transit and weekend sleep deprivation.

In the meantime, let's diverge: let's take a short trip through the seemingly inconsequential everyday. The owner of Cass Bar - our Sanbon drinking establishment - is a pretty quality dude. While most pub operators see Westerners as a bit of a nuisance, this guy actually likes us (we think). The Cass Bar is very worthwhile, with a high-tech dart board and a PlayStation 2 hooked up to a gigantic TV, as well as a jukebox. I often think that a bar back home that featured this kind of sideline entertainment would be amazing, and then I realize that most Canadians would be assholes and smash everything up once they got soused. Most unique Korean pop-culture only works because Koreans, as a general rule, are pretty respectful folk.

We, on the other hand, are barely human once we hit the soju. But even when we monopolize Winning Eleven Soccer and play rowdy drinking games and cue up twenty Rage Against the Machine songs in a row, scaring off all his Korean clientele for the night, the owner is a congenial fellow. He's always willing to play around and give us discounts and put up with our retardedness. One day I gave him a yellow card for kicking our asses at darts, and he turned an ensuing picture of me into a soft ad:

I officially endorse this product and/or service.

[Busan] [Drinking in Korea] [Cass Bar]

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