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[SPINOZA]

Last Saturday night, me and a friend got severely drunk in a hof. It's not like us to behave badly, but we were so hammered off Soju and pitchers of beer, we were being really crazy. My friend pi55ed on a parked car. We're the kind of people who hate people who do things like that, especially in a foreign country, but my friend roared "I'm gonna pee all over this car, God damn it!" and I was like "Hell yeah!". That's how smashed we were - out of control, personality changes, guys who are normally nice and sensible experiencing Soju-induced mental derangement and moronic bahavior.

Anyway, the next day, I experienced easily my worst ever hangover. I don't get terrible hangovers generally, but this was something else. I didn't have a headache, but I couldn't function as a normal person. I couldn't eat. That's the only time in my whole life I've gone all day without feeling hungry. I ate nothing for 36 hours. I had the most appalling thirst but stupidly didn't have any water. I refused to get dressed. I couldn't even go down to Family Mart in my officetel building and buy water, so I drank from the tap. It made me feel like *beep*. I vomited, although didn't vomit the night before. I eventually mustered the energy to buy water. I downed probably a litre as well as 2 bottles of pure orange. I brought it all up, covering my bathroom floor with an interesting new color "hint of orange puke". I had the worst thirst all day because I couldn't hold anything down. I slept or tried to sleep almost all day, from 4am Sunday to 7am Monday in fact. I still felt dreadful on Monday morning. I got a cold on the same day too so that didn't help. Maybe it was a combination of Soju poisoning and a nasty cold.

Has Soju produced your worst EVER hangover? Give details. If not, what has?

[stumptown]

If I drink soju too many days in a row and take a day off, I feel as though I've been tweaking on uppers. I'm shaky, nervous, paranoid and no brain control whatsoever. And slight auditory hallucinations as well.

[weatherman]

I find sulfates in wine give me the worst hangovers....

[VanIslander]

I had gotten drunk on soju with Korean men a lot during my first two years here, I mean fall down in the streets drunk, where going up the stairs was a real feat of falling forward, rolling and clammoring.

And yet I NEVER had a hangover of any kind the next day (maybe due to the three glasses of water I always forced myself to drink before bed). In fact, I usually awoke feeling GREAT and refreshed! My body loves the stuff.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

I had my worst hangovers in college when I mixed, definitely. One night when I was young and stupid (as opposed to old and stupid) I had Bailey's, rum, whisky, wine, beer, and a cooler. It wasn't pleasant. But yeah, soju gives you a nasty hangover. Best to drink it early in the evening with food and then move on to beer.

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[fusionbarnone]

Soju produced my first blackout after toasting with the local butcher before going on holiday. Couldn't recall how I staggered home but it was the last time I ever drank that Korean fire water.

Good luck with your drinking games and your hangovers.

[The Bobster]

[kangnam mafioso]

i've also noticed that korean beer, particularly draft, consumed in large quantities, can produce a most wretched feeling the next day. mix several bottles of soju in there with it and you are well on your way to feeling like shite for the whole weekend. i'm not sure if it is the additives/preservatives or what.

[Metsuke]

Want to know what hell is? Cause it just happened to me. Went out... ate pork galbi... drank becksayju with soju mixed together... and drank alot of it to get totally hammered. Stumbled home... woke up with food poisoning...

Not only was I drunk/hungover... I had horrible severe food poisoning.

Thats the worst I've ever been... ever.

[keithinkorea]

Soju can cause a hideous hangover if you don't drink at least a pint of water before going to sleep. Usually hangovers it seems are caused by dehydration.

Worst hangover ever was caused by extreme stupidity where I drank way too much wine, way too much beer and a load of scotch. I was ill for about two days afterwards, I was young and foolish and got a bollocking from my mum for almost throwing up in her car , it was ok I got the window down in time . Certain drinks can in moderation be mixed, large quantities of different things can cause some seriously unpleasant side effects

Worst hangover in Korea was acquired with friends after a mad night in a pojang macha in Kangnam, after a couple of bars me and my crazy coworkers went to a pojang macha and had a wild time drinking soju and eating some very strange anju. The conversations became increasingly bizarre and we met some equally inebriated ajoshi and played with their ultra cute labrador. The night ended in mayhem, the newest teacher in our little merry group thought the taxi driver was ripping us off-the taxi ajoshi was actually taking a shortcut- and suggested we 'knock' the taxi, we didn't but that didn't stop him bolting from the car when it stopped at light and sprinting across 4 lanes of traffic! Very dangerous. We all had hangovers the next day but the guy who sprinted through the busy traffic gave up soju forever!

Be very careful with soju.

[cruisemonkey]

Lamb's Navy Rum - dark 'n brutal. On a band trip, as an idiot-stick sixteen-year-old, I drank a bottle 'straight' (plus a few brews). The next day I had to face a fourteen-hour bus ride home. I know what hell is.

[Privateer]

These days I find Korean beer starts giving me a headache even as a I drink it let alone the morning after. It produces an evil hangover that never seems to let up too. Vodka also produces pretty bad hangovers, and of course soju does.

Over Christmas I think I drank more every day than I normally would in a month but always felt fine the next day. I attribute this to the huge quantities of food I was eating.

[Qinella]

The last time I drank soju, I woke up the next day appalingly sick. My throat was bone dry, but I couldn't muster the energy to stand up and get water. When I finally did get up, I found that I had about one or two sips of bottled water left. So I drank those, then stumbled back to bed. Couldn't sleep, though, so I finally admitted my body wanted to puke. So I puked, then stayed in bed, wallowing miserably for a couple hours, trying to gather energy to walk to the store and get water.

I finally did walk there, and I bought some apples, too. My body wasn't hungry, but I thought eating an apple would be helpful. I drank tons of water that day and ate an apple, and had nausea and diahrrea all day. The next two days I had a body cold.

Lately, I've been drinking either vodka (absolut) or nothing. I've gotten really drunk on it a couple times, and the next day (today, for example) feel great. Maybe a slight headache, but nothing some ibuprofen can't handle. I love vodka. It's the liquor of the gods.

[snehulak]

I've swilled quite a bit of soju in the last five months with nary a problem. I think the Korean beer is much worse as every time I drink it, I end up with an all-day hangover.

My worst-ever hangover was brought on by drinking an obscene amount of tequila during my young and dumb army days. We took a day trip south of the Arizona border and ordered those huge clay bowls full of ice and tequila. Not knowing the power of tequila, I stupidly drank the whole thing down and was still drunk by noon the next day. I ended up missing the following day of classes because of my hangover but escaped punishment because my lieutenant was in worse shape than I. Never again!

[plato's republic]

Worst hangover I ever had was during my uni days. I had a Greek flatmate who brought back a bottle of Ouzo from his trip home. I ended up downing the whole thing straight one night whilst chatting with a friend. One moment I was sat there having a good time and the next my head was stuck out of the window and I was throwing up in a major way. The next morning I threw up twice and even vomited blood. Needless to say I haven't touched the Greek stuff since.
A night of soju drinking also put me in a similar situation as the OP. Never again. Nasty stuff.