World Class Korea 2025 ๐
์์ง๋ ์ค๊ฐ์ ๋์ง ์์ง๋ง,
์ฌ์ง์ ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐ์ด ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ค์.
์ฌํด๋ ์ ์๊ฒ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํฌ ํ์๊ฒ๋
์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ ํ๋ณตํ ์ผ๋ค์ด ๊ฒน์ณ ์ฐพ์์จ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. (ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐ์ฌ ํ์ดํ !!)
์ด๋ฒ ๋ํ์์ ๊ฟ์ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ ์์๋ ๊ฑด
๊ทธ๋์ ํจ๊ป ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์์ํด์ค ๋ถ๋ค ๋๋ถ์ ๋๋ค.
"์ด๊ฑด ๊ฟ์ด ์๋์ผ!" ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋๋์ด ํ์ค์ด ๋์๋ค์.
ํผ์์๋ ์ ๋ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์๊ธฐ์
์ด ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋น๋ ค ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฌ์ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ค์ ๋ฌด๋๋ ํ ๋ก ํ .
ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐํ ๋ฉ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋์ ๋ฌด๋์์ ์ ํ ์ ์๋๋ก
์ฐจ๊ทผ์ฐจ๊ทผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ค๋นํด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
์์ํด์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฐํฌ๋ง๋ต๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
์ค๊ป!!
Still canโt fully believe it,
but every time I look at the photos, I feel the intensity of that moment.
This year has been full of gratitude โ
for me, and for the amazing team around me.
I couldnโt have done it alone.
Thank you to everyone who supported, encouraged, and believed in me.
This isnโt a dream.
Next stop: Toronto.
Step by step, Iโll keep moving forward โ the way I know best.
Skrrrr!
@muchbetter.thanever is the 2025 @worldclasskr bartender of the year and today he shares his insights, specs and full prep notes to the community on Peche!
Damon Park is a Seoul-based bartender exploring Korean spirits, seasonal ingredients, and fermentation.
His work reimagines nostalgic Korean flavors and culture through a contemporary approach. He is currently the beverage director at @acefourclub ๐ธ
์๋ ํ์ธ์, ๋ฐํฌ๋ง ๋ฐํ ๋์ ๋๋ค!
2021. 07. 01 ~ 2025. 12. 31.
๋ฐ ์ฐธ์์ 2๋ ๋ฐ, ์ฐธ ์ ์ฒ ์์ 2๋ .
๋์๋ณด๋ ์ด 4๋ ๋ฐ, ์ ๋ฐํ ๋ ์ธ์์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์ํฅ์ ์ค ์๊ฐ์
์ฐธ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ณด๋์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ 12์ 31์ผ์ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ์๋ก์ด ์ถ๋ฐ๊ณผ ๋์ ์ ์ํด ์ด๊ณณ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
์ง๊ธ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ ํธ์ํ ์ด ๋ฅ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ ๋๋ ค ํ๋
๊ฑฑ์ ๋ ๋์ง๋ง, ๋์์ ์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ๋๋ ํฝ๋๋ค.
์์ด์์ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ด ์ฃผ์
์ฌ๋๋ฐฉ ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ค, ๋ ์๊ทน๊ณผ ์์์ ์ฃผ๋ ์ธ๋์คํธ๋ฆฌ ๋๋ฃ๋ค,
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐ๊น์ด์์ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ์ฐธ ์๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ
์ ์ธ์์ ํฐ ์ธ์ฐ์ด ๋์ด์ค์ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฌํด์.
์ง๊ธ์ ์ ๋ผ๋ ๋ฐํ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฟ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฌ์ด์ฃผ์ ์๋ณ์ง ๋ํ๋,
์ฐธ์์ ๋งค๋์ ๋ก์ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ ํ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์นจ์ ์ฃผ์ ํ๋,
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํจ๊ป ์ธ๊ณ ์์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฐธ ์๊ตฌ๋ค ๋๋ถ์
๋ง์ด ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ , ๋ง์ด ์ฑ์ฅํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด๊ณณ์์ ๋ณด๋ธ ์๊ฐ์
์ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด์๋, ์ ์ฌ๋๋จ์๋ ์ ๋ง ํฐ ์์ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
์ด์ ๋ง์ผ๋ก ์๋ฅธ์ด ๋์๋ค์.
์ด์ ์์ผ โ์ด๋ฅธ์ด ๋์ด๊ฐ๋คโ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ์ธ์ง
์กฐ๊ธ์ ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๋ฐ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ข์ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ ์ค ์ ์๋ ๋ฐํ ๋๊ฐ ๋๋๋ก
์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
์ฐธ์์ ๋ฐฐ์ด ํ๋์ ๋ง์์ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๋ง์ ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฆฌ์์, ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ์ต์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ฌ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
โ ํฌ๋ง
Hello, Internet!
Two and a half years at Bar Cham,
and two years at Cham in Season.
Looking back, I spent a total of four and a half years with the Cham group โ
a period that shaped me the most as a bartender.
And as of December 31, Iโll be leaving to begin a new chapter and take on new challenges.
Leaving this place โ a nest that has felt so safe and comfortable โ
comes with both worries and excitement about whatโs ahead.
To the guests who felt like family in Seochon,
the industry friends who constantly inspired and supported me,
and most of all, the Cham family who stood closest by my side โ
thank you for becoming such an important part of my life.
To Byungjin Lim, who helped shape and refine me into the bartender I am today,
to Hwi, who guided me with positive influence and teaching as my manager at Cham,
and to every member of the Cham team I laughed and struggled with โ
because of you, I was able to learn and grow so much.
The time I spent here will remain
one of the most valuable assets in both my career and my life.
Iโve now officially turned thirty.
Only now do I feel like Iโm beginning to understand
what it truly means to grow into an adult.
Iโll continue working hard to become a bartender
who can have a positive influence on Koreaโs bar culture.
The attitude and mindset I learned at Cham will always stay with me.
Thank you, truly.
Iโll see you again โ in another place, in another form.
โ Damon Park
์ฐธ! ์ธ๊ณ๋ก!!