by Esther Oh , Frances Cha, Seoul Editor
It?s a typical Wednesday night at Hanshin Pocha -? a street bar with a plastic tarp for a wall in the trendy Hongdae district.
The plastic stools are uncomfortable, the bathroom is repulsive, half the customers are chain-smoking and the noise level is slightly below rock concert level, but all the tables are full and people are lining up to get in.
And it?s only 8 p.m.
While every table starts out single-sex, by the end of the night the boundaries have blurred, as the guys approach the girls? tables with pick-up lines that range from asking for shots to claiming they lost a drinking game and had to go chat up a girl.
?We?re famous for our chicken feet (??) and 'booking',? says Choi Sung-wook, the manager, referring to the Korean term for groups of men foraging for groups of women and vice versa. ?Our waiters don?t facilitate the 'booking' -- the customers just do it themselves.?
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