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    Tucked inside the Four Seasons Seoul, this cocktail bar takes its name from Charles H. Baker, the mid-century travel writer who drank his way around the world and wrote it all down. The room leans into that spirit, all dark-wood speakeasy atmosphere with hotel-bar polish underneath. Classics get local tweaks, originals get genuinely strange ingredients, and the whole thing lands on Asia's 50 Best Bars list without trying to look like it cares.

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    • Velvet Martini

      “expertly crafted classics such as the Velvet Martini – a beautifully balanced pour made with vermouth and fino sherry given a bright, citrusy lift with Jeju Hallabong”

      The 50
    • Coconut Grove

      “exquisite originals like the Coconut Grove, which comes with a blend of rum, lime, pineapple, coconut milk, lime leaf, Thai red curry and fire tincture.”

      The 50

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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.