Wine has surpassed spirits in Korea's imported liquor market for the first time ever.<br />The Korea International Trade Association says wine imports rose five-point-five-percent from the year before to 94-point-four million U.S. dollars in the first half of the year.<br />Imports of hard liquor... like whiskey, vodka and gin,... came in at 91-point-seven million dollars.<br />Spirits once took up two-thirds of all alcohol imports, but wine now has the highest share at nearly 25 percent, while spirits have fallen to just over 24 percent.<br />Wine imports have been on the rise for the past six years, with more Koreans interested in health and light drinking.<br />There has also been an increasing domestic demand for a wider variety of wine from vineyards in Chile, the United States and Australia.
