Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Busan for grown-ups.

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Wood Side Bar

Drink Bartender's choice whisky highball

Wood Side Bar lines a long Seomyeon counter in Busan with whisky bottles and 16,000 won cocktails, a Blue Ribbon pick for a slow second round.

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Henry 17

Drink Classic highballs from 16,000 won

Henry 17 hides a classical whisky room up a Millak stairwell in Busan, speakeasy in style but welcoming once you find the second-floor door.

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Eat your way around Haeundae

4 of the bars on this list are in Haeundae. So are these tours and tastings.

Korean cooking class in Haeundae, Busan★ 5.0 (107)
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Korean cooking class in Haeundae, Busan

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Bar NYX

  • ★ 4.3
  • Hotel speakeasy
  • ₩₩₩
  • Haeundae

Drink Film-themed signature cocktails

Bar NYX tucks a cinema-themed cocktail den inside Paradise Hotel Busan, pouring from around 130 spirits behind an unmarked doorway off the Haeundae lobby.

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The Booze Haeundae

  • ★ 4.1
  • Speakeasy whisky and cigar bar
  • ₩₩₩
  • Haeundae

Drink Rare pours by the glass

The Booze runs a basement speakeasy two blocks from Haeundae Beach in Busan, deep whisky shelves and cigar-friendly late hours for the after-dinner crowd.

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Display

Drink LP-side cocktails from 15,000 won

Display plays jazz off vinyl behind a red London phone box in Seomyeon, Busan, with weekend live sessions and cocktails built to the records.

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Pale Blue Dot

Drink Cocktails from 10,000 won with a record request

Pale Blue Dot seats solo drinkers along a record wall in Jeonpo, Busan, a one-person-friendly listening bar of LPs, books and honest prices.

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Muse-on

Drink Highballs with a request slip

Muse-on spins guest requests off vinyl near Haeundae Beach in Busan, a free-entry record bar where the only queue that matters is for songs, not the door.

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Ovantgarde

  • ★ 4.0
  • Live music bar
  • ₩
  • Nam-gu

Drink 5,000 won draft with the band on

Ovantgarde keeps live music going in a Kyungsung University basement in Busan, cheap draft and simple mixes under whichever band is playing that night.

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Where to stay in Busan

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Jerseyman Club

Drink Whisky highballs and house cocktails

Jerseyman Club pours whisky and easy cocktails in the same Jeonpo alley as Busan's best late rooms, relaxed enough to bring the whole table.

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Praha 993

Drink Unfiltered Czech lager

Praha 993 brews Czech-style lager beside the F1963 arts complex in Busan, tank beer and pork knuckle in a factory-turned-culture-yard setting.

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