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[Shoon]

What's the foreign wine availability like in Korea? Will I be able to get it, or is it quite rare?

[crazylemongirl]

I've noticed that a lot of the big department stores (hyundai in particular) have wine stores in their basement areas. They have a resonable selection of wines from europe, north and south america, australia and new zealand. A bit pricey (maybe about 20k for an ok bottle of white) but you can find some decent drops there.

[dogbert]

Due to tariffs, shipping costs, the excuse du jour, imported wine is tremendously overpriced. If you can, bring over a few of your favorite bottles with you.

Just last week, I bought and brought back from the Yoo Ess Eh some wine that sold there for $2.99/bottle. Same bottle here goes for 18,000 won.

[Swiss James]

it's getting more and more popular all the time and any fancy area will have a good selection. There are specialist wine shops near me in Hongdae, and all the convenience stores carry a range of about 5 or 6 different bottles.

Pricey though, maybe twice the price of the UK, 18,000 won a bottle and upwards.

[crazylemongirl]

[mindmetoo]

[manlyboy]

Carrefour in Yatap is having a big sale on wine right now. I picked up three bottles of some award-winning French gear for 16 000 won yesterday. It normally costs twice that much. They had a string quartet playing beside the selections too. The ajummas were, as the kids say, "gettin' into it".

[mack the knife]

Our Carrefour (Jungye-dong) has a decent wine selection with plenty of good buys (Hardy's from OZ, only W9000, for instance). All the major wine growing countries are represented. They have a great selection of cheap French Bordeaux and table wines, most W10,000 or under. I'm not talking 5 or 6 brands, either. More like 30 labels, at least (more if you include whites and rose). And that's only the French swill!

[oneiros]