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(Yonhap Feature) New expat-owned bar scores a win for sports fans
By Eugene Hwang
Contributing writer
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Yonhap) -- It's game day and your team is scheduled to play away. You and a group of friends want to get together to watch the big game, but one guy lives in a tiny apartment, another has a wife who hates cleaning up after her husband's friends and your house is simply too far from everyone else's. What do you do?

   For people in most North American cities, this is a no-brainer. You head to the local sports bar. But what about sports fans resettled in Korea?

   Sin Bin, a new sports bar in Itaewon, the "foreign district" of Seoul, appears to finally have done sports bars justice. This is a first in Korea, at least according to its owner Jason Braedon.

"I've been to other places that called themselves sports bars," says the 36-year-old from San Diego. "I guess everyone has their own interpretation of what it is and what it means. I looked at my competitors and decided how I wanted to do things differently."

   Before Sin Bin opened, finding a decent sports bar here was a hard task.





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