Before I give you the official first week recap,

I must ask, WHO and HOW does South Korea go about negotiating things? Old age is the golden ticket here, meaning that rather than having a bunch of snotty-nosed 20-year-old assholes walking around as we do in the West, here you have 50-and-up year-old entitled assholes walking and shoving their way around, really just because they can.

So I wonder if age alone is the qualification for becoming the diplomats and anyone negotiating international trade agreements, resulting in a bunch of entitled, rude old people pissing off everyone else so much that this is the price they agree on:

In case you weren't up on your cheap wine pricing, this is almost 3 times what you'd pay in the US for the same bottles of wine. And so it goes, with pretty much... well God, a lot: fruit, liquor, meat, and anything else that doesn't naturally occur nor can apparently be made to occur here, because why make it when you just import it at 3 times the price?

I know that imported goods are always more expensive. It's just that this is really the first time I can really recall getting fleeced for any alcohol, since wine is pretty cheap in... every other wine producing region except apparently for Australia, and possibly the US.

Unsurprisingly, the Chileans seem to be the only ones who were completely unfazed by whatever approach the South Koreans took, because Chilean wine is almost the only wine that is consistently the most reasonably priced.