Drinking Establishments

I spend a lot of free weekend time at these types of places, so I figured they may deserve a mention in my blog.

Firstly, there are a few foreigner bars I frequent. Much like bars back home...other then you can still smoke in the ones over here. Communes, T-birds, Old Skool and Crew to name a few. Some you will find more teachers at, some you will find more GI's at and some a good mix.

Other places I have been technically serve drinks but I don't always drink at them. They also are usually visited at the end of the night so my memory on them isn't always the greatest. I have dedicated a post already to the Norabong which is very popular and very fun. The other is just your regular club I suppose. The 2 I have been to here are Monkey and Frog. Monkey was just the once and Frog has been quite a few. Foreigners get into Frog with no cover charge. Dance dance dance til 5am...or later.

Finally, the interesting fun bars. I don't know if these are exclusive to Daegu or even Korea for that matter. They are nothing like anywhere I have visited in Canada however.

The first is BillyBowl. It is a combination of pool and bowling. You have a cue stick, and I cue ball and you shoot it down a mini alley with mini pins. Score is kept the same way as 10 pin bowling. Oh, and the pitchers of beer there are really cheap.

The 2nd is the ice bar. Here, you get your beer in a cup made out of ice! For the most part anyways. There is a plastic inside, and an aluminum holder so your hands don't get cold. It keeps the beer really cold, and who doesn't like cold beer. Think thats cool? Thats not the best part! After the give you a glove and you get to throw your ice cup at a target and watch it shatter. If you hit the target, you win a randomly selected prize. If your lucky, it's another ice beer!

My first toss nailed the target and I won a big glass of Orange Juice, which I got my buddy to spike with his SoJu. Once I downed that I ordered another beer. I noticed the thrill of breaking your glass makes you want to drink faster so you can do it again. The one visit I made there ended up being a messy night.