rory muses, one eye on me, one on my drink, "while this jackweed is taking another photo, making i can nick another of his beers..."

once the mayhem at the beach gave way to hunger, we all scattered to the four winds for an hour of clothes change and decompression. disregarding hunger for food and needing, instead, to continue nurturing our liquid diet, we all met at the coolest bar in all of korea: bumpin', in the heart of downtown gangneung.

run by a funky, hip korean man that we usually just call mr. lee, it serves no soju, no traditional korean liquor, no korean food, only beer (mostly imported, though with one or two korean mainstays) and imported western liquor: vodka, rum, bourbon, whiskey, tequila, and scotches of all kinds.

mr. lee can drink with the best of us and is generally regarded as the most generous man on the planet because of his penchant for pouring scores of free shots throughout the course of a given night for any given customer and, sometimes, on special occasions, for the entire bar.

though a night drinking here can total more than two or three nights drinking at a traditional korean bar where only soju or dongdongju are served, there are times when one needs to feed the soul what it is the soul is craving...

we passed the night away here after our day spent at the beach...