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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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The sooner Korea gets over this stupid 'well-being' craze and gets back to hard-drinking the better.
As for the strength of soju.....I know it's not very strong but it still gets me completely ga-ga after not very much. There's something in it I tell ya!!
I can do 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey easier than 3 bottles of soju. True dat. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
The sooner Korea gets over this stupid 'well-being' craze and gets back to hard-drinking the better.
As for the strength of soju.....I know it's not very strong but it still gets me completely ga-ga after not very much. There's something in it I tell ya!!
I can do 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey easier than 3 bottles of soju. True dat. |
Eamo, you're dead right. Same with me. I can drink a good amount of scotch and feel fine. A few bottles of soju and I'm feeling it BIG TIME. And soju (supposedly) has half the alcohol content of whiskey. What's up with that? |
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hairy sue
Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: Re: Is Soju Too Strong? |
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| I had an interesting conversation with my co-teacher about this the other day. He was telling me that the alcohol content of soju used to be 23% and they lowered it to 20%. He's a Korean guy who loves his soju. I was surprised when he said that he thought that, in his opinion, they should lower it even more. His reasoning was that he thought that alcoholism and public drunkenness was becoming a serious problem in Korea. And, of course, everyone drinks soju. I have to admit, not too many days go by when I don't see some middle aged guy totally fall-down drunk on the bus or subway. By the way, anyone know why they lowered the alcohol content in soju in the first place? Just curious. |
We've all heard the phrase "education is important in Korea" as though it�s unique to Korean culture � it�s not. It�s interesting when parts of a culture which are not positive emerge from a Korean as if they�re new topics and not a part of Korean culture. Alcoholism, is not BECOMING a serious problem in Korea. Alcoholism is a part of and has been a part of Korean culture for a long time.
People who are addicted to a drug, continue to take the drug, everyday, because they are addicted to the drug. It's not because they have stress at work. |
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otis
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Soju is sneaky strong.
What it needs is more kick to remind the user that they are actually drinking gasoline. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: |
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The worst Korean alcohol. 100% synthetic chemicals.
Too bad, as historically there at least used to be GO-Goo-ma in the swill.
#1 - Gash-ee-O-gapi.
#2 - Dong-dong Ju
#3 - Makolli |
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otis
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Anyone caught using the n-word while drinking their soju will be cornholed and shot without further questioning!
We all hate Michael Richards because of that.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that SPINOZA has agreed to do the cornholing. So you will die sexually ungratified!
Thanks,
The Staff.
The message has been sponsored by the one and only Otis. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Remember when all soju was 25%? You can always get stronger, but it's in big jugs for making
ginseng soju or various animal-product soju, like snake or dog.
Korea just went downhill once Green went off the mainstream market. Can you even find it any more? |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| It's strong enough. Or else it's all the lousy crap in it. I've had a few bad days thanks to that stuff. Beer and non-Korean wine, relatively harmless in comparison. |
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| The rice wine (magolli) is what generally gives the worst hangovers. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
They recently DID lower the alcohol content in 참이슬 soju -- from 20.1% to 19.8%.  |
That way, people will buy more bottles. |
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