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[Len8]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2007/10/117_11399.html

Number of women needing help for alchohol abuse in Korea given as 550,000 and that means there are more. The figure is probably only the tip of the iceberg.

Reasons cited are conflicts with inlaws, and infidelity.

[Gamecock]

There is no alcohol abuse in Korea, sillly. Abuse infers there is a norm where people aren't using alcohol to excess or in self-destructive ways. That doesn't exist here.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[thematrixiam]

I thought being an alcoholic was patriotic in Korea?

[PINI]

[caniff]

[The Great Toad]

[wanamin]

[ds_fan]

cant say i agree with people saying all koreans are alcos, just seems the same as any country, bnge drinking is univesal, then again im from belfast

[aka Dave]

You know how Mr. Pizza has that slogan"for the women"? (or however they market toward women).

When women go to Mr. Pizza, they have pizza without booze. Wheras men go to tradtional Korean restaurants (sam gyup sal, galbi, etc) and pound soju.

So I think women traditionally drink less booze. But. I teach Uni students. The younger women drink, and they talk about drinking. To be honest, I think every woman in my department gets loaded (I went on membership training with them, which is them getting drunk at a resort at the start of the semester), except for some old returning students (in their early 30s).

One vocab note. They always say "I will drink alcohol" and I try to get them to say "We'll have some drinks" or "We'll go out" or even "We'll party".

[anyway]

Aye, those uppity wenches. 'Challenging the male-dominated prerogative'?? AGAIN?!! Knock it off already.

[Rob'sdad]

In our office, we tip a few road sodas near closing time and it's almost always the gals who insitgate. Sometimes when all of the guys are out of the office they'll fire up earlier. I'll come back and there'll be a can o'cerveza on the desk.

I got a bottle of white from a former student and put it in the fridge. The gals were making a plot to pound it and got in a bunch after I drank it with my buds.

11. Thou shalt never underestimate what a Korean chick might do.

[ryouga013]

I was just out drinking last weekend with an awesome girl and she was keeping up with the other people we were with. Granted we weren't trying to get completely wasted, but drinking a lot.

Then there is my ex, she says her face goes completely red if she has half a bottle of beer...

[hugekebab]

[Tiger Beer]