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[Steelrails]

Are we really arguing over whether or not Koreans drink a crapton?

[edwardcatflap]

[Hokie21]

[Mr. BlackCat]

So far in two pages, we've had:
-the OP link a legit article talking about legit stats collected by a legit organization.

-OP is quickly called the biggest Korea hater on the board.

-The stats don't count because vodka has a higher %.

-The stats don't count because Koreans over-exaggerate (and no other countries do).

-What about the religious folks?!

-The newspaper is not good.

-Stats don't mean anything! Here are other stats that you should trust more than those stats! Don't question my stats!

-Eastern Europe is worse!

-Men drink more than women. (?)

-Why are we even talking about this?

Keep on trucking eslcafe. The Olympics are coming, there'll be even more opportunities to defend the honour of this great peninsula.

[Hokie21]

[Konglishman]

And surely, we can add in another point that somehow links Hitler and Nazis to all of this.

[neilio]

soju and beer are weak here, can't compare to russia.

[Joe Boxer]

This line from the KT article is crazy:
"Among the main reasons for the huge intake of alcohol by South Korea is the existence of soju which accounted for some 97 percent of the world’s distilled drinks."
Just think of all the vodka that goes into all of the mixed drinks at bars and dance clubs all over the world. Soju still accounts for 97% of the world's distilled drinks?
I must be reading something wrong.

[Stain]

[Otus]

I've noticed in Korea and also a bit in Japan, some westerners will drink a lot more than they previously did due to difficulties with cultural adjustment. Some will then rationalize it by thinking everyone drinks more in this culture. Aside from actual alcoholics, I've seen very few Koreans actually binge as hard as some foreigners.

And I've known Koreans who were really good at faking how much they were actually drinking. I had one director who was a pro at sneaking out to the bathroom and making himself vomit. When doing the 'one-shots', 'bombs' etc., you'll notice a lot of food on the table, without which many Koreans won't drink.

However, the denial and blame with regard to this can be intense. It's a bit like the alcoholic who will vehemently insist that anyone having a couple of drinks with him/her has to have the same affliction.

[Old fat expat]

Earlier in the thread I said there was a huge difference between rates of male-female consumption rates here in the ROK but did not have the stats at hand. Some posters were shocked, shocked I say, that men drink more than women. In Europe the difference between genders ranges between 2X to 4X the rate, so yeah, everyone knows guys drink more. But this is what I was talking about:

[dairyairy]

[Hokie21]

[Steelrails]

[postfundie]