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[toby99]

We all know a good number of waygooks like to hit the bottle. While some keep their boozing to a few days or weekends a month, others hit the bottle much, much more frequently (myself included). I thought it would be fun to start a thread to share 'bender stories', either personal or liquor-fueled romps of our fellow expat friends and acquaintances.

To share one of my own, I have a buddy who has since moved to the middle east. This guy is (or at least was) a massive drunk, meant in the best way possible. Mid-20s, snagged his first job out of college teaching at a hogwan in one of the cities near southern Seoul. First week on the peninsula, he was out one night at a hoishik and got so bombed that he ralphed all over the shared kimchi jiggae pot. Rather than call it a night, he decided to 'puke and rally' and somehow ended up waking up next to his hot K co-teacher the next morning, although he has no recollection of how it happened (or what exactly happened).

After sending her on her way, he stumbled down to the local Family Mart and let the good times roll, drinking soju and Cass pretty much all morning and afternoon before heading to Itaewon. While in Itaewon, he allegedly picked up 3 different 'girls' at various bars on and around 'the hill' in one night. Woke up the following AM in a sleazy hotel room somewhere south of the main drag without a cent in his wallet and very little recollection of the previous 12 or so hours. Again, rather than calling it quits, he got right back after it the next AM, having adjosshis buy him soju and poweraide mixers outside of various convenience stores. Ended up right back on the 'hill'. Eventually had to call his co-teacher to bail him out of the slammer after he allegedly refused to pay his tab at one of the seedier establishments.

He lasted a few more weeks but was quickly booted out of the country for 'conduct detrimental to the profession' and went to the middle east to sober up and put his life back together. Haven' heard much from him since, but do miss his stories.

[Squire]

He sounds like a G

[toby99]

[Seoulman69]

Sounds like a laugh when you are in uni but when you are working as a teacher then it becomes pathetic.
The guy should have been ashamed of himself.

[nero]

Yeah, I'm an epic pisshead but I feel guilt and shame rather than being pleased about the whole thing.
There's no heroism in opening your mouth and swilling alcohol. Anyone can do it.

[edsel]

[quote]Yeah, I'm an epic pisshead but I feel guilt and shame rather than being pleased about the whole thing.
There's no heroism in opening your mouth and swilling alcohol. Anyone can do it.

[quote]

Yeah, I echo this sentiment. Every Monday morning I wake up nursing a terrible hangover with a feeling of guilt and remorse over another weekend pissed up the wall with nothing to show for it.

I've met many people here with severe drinking issues, I would probably have to include myself in this group.

[Kepler]

I worked with someone who woke up at about 6 am in Itaewon. He was lying in the gutter and didn't even remember going to Itaewon. The last place he remembered being was in 588. He had to start work at 9 am that morning.

[Weigookin74]

Tell me why there isn't a minimum teaching age of 25 or something again? That'd weed out much of those incedents. (Sorry to those of you who are upstanding chaps and realize Korea isn't your 5th year of college.)

[Otherside]

[newb]

[tiger fancini]

Alcoholism doesn't discriminate over age. It's kind of cool like that. Very open-minded addiction, willing to accept pretty much anybody. Even in Korea, hotbed of racism and discrimination that it is (jest), foreigners and Koreans alike have an equal shot at it according to my own observations.

[Squire]

I've only ever seen Koreans (and Japanese, when I was there) passed out on the street because of drinking. Obviously that's statistically more likely, but to be fair I've seen very little drunken disorderly behaviour from other foreigners. I know one or two people who start drinking at the weekend and go all night, but I've never heard of them getting into trouble because of it. If it wasn't for this forum I'd never even have heard of an alcoholic NET here once, but maybe that's just because my social circle is pretty small

[edwardcatflap]

Was working at an adult hagwan in Eastern Europe with a guy who liked a drink and we got extra classes in the morning teaching local brewery execs. One day they'd had a function the night before in the room where he taught so there were functioning beer pumps in the actual class room. He and the students all decided to get stuck in and he turned up for classes at the adult hagwan around 3pm virtually paralytic. In the end he fell asleep outside on the steps of the school and was still lying there as the students all arrived for the first class. The same guy used to steal books from the hagwan library so he could show them to his wife and pretend he'd spent money on them instead of the alcohol he'd actually bought.

[Dave Chance]

[toby99]