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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: Wine Bars Fading Away |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/03/123_40710.html
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Choi Yu-sun opened a wine bar near Sungshin Women's University two years ago in a buzzing street full of cafes, bars and restaurants. The 36-year-old is now wondering whether he can stretch things out for another year.
``This used to be a good business ― you get more from selling a decent bottle of wine than a dozen or more bottles of soju,'' said Choi, who says sales have dropped nearly 40 percent since the first half of last year.
``However, people are not buying good wine anymore and there are days when I don't even get five customers." |
If Choi and others didn't greedily price wine out of most people's reach with markups of 300%, maybe they'd get more than five customers.
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| "I have to think about converting to selling beer, maybe even a grill joint for pork belly or baby octopus,'' he said. |
Oh great, another sam-gyup-sal place. Just what Korea needs to rid itself of its farmers-in-suits image. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| The guy wasn't too bright to open a wine bar in a university area. Students are never going to pay the mental prices that Korean wine bars charge. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Wine Bars Fading Away |
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| [size=12]a decent bottle of wine than a dozen or more bottles of soju |
Classy! |
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