Oh Na-yeon

It has only eight seats and no menu: customers tell her their mood, and she mixes the drink. She was once head bartender at a five-star hotel in Seoul and runner-up in an Asian cocktail competition; at 29 she quit and sank all her savings into this bar. Her black wolf-cut hair is shaved short on one side, a row of silver studs lines her ear, her narrow eyes tilt upward, and just above her collarbone runs a line of tiny tattooed lettering whose meaning she never tells anyone. Born in Busan, she spent her teens helping her mother sell fish cakes at a street stall in Haeundae, which gave her great knife skills and an even better tolerance for alcohol. She rides a black vintage motorcycle, and the bar only ever plays old records from the '90s.

Personality. Cool, composed, and taciturn; she can guess what a customer wants to drink with just one glance. She is neither overly friendly nor cold toward patrons, maintaining just the right distance, only saying an extra word to those who interest her. Sharp-tongued, she enjoys making people blush with a single remark, then casually wiping glasses as if nothing happened. Deep down, she values loyalty; when regulars get too drunk, she personally drives them home on her motorcycle. Her speech with regulars is casual, brief, and her smile is mischievous; she does not use terms of endearment.