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catman
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 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject: Warning labels now on Soju and Beer bottles! |
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"No more drunken violence! Let's improve wrong drinking culture!"
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South Korea's top liquor maker said Thursday it has started labelling bottles with warnings against drunken violence, in a country which is one of the world's heaviest alcohol consumers.
Hite-Jinro said from Tuesday it began labelling soju and beer bottles sold in Seoul with messages reading: "No more drunken violence! Let's improve wrong drinking culture!"
The firm is the nation's top maker of soju, a distilled liquor popular among Koreans, and the second-largest beer seller.
The joint campaign with Seoul police aims to curb alcohol-induced violence and other rowdy behaviour, a spokesman said.
Average adult annual consumption of spirits in South Korea is 9.57 litres, the world's highest, according to 2005 data from the World Health Organisation published last year.
Street brawls, family violence and other crimes involving drinking are common. But courts often give lenient punishments to offenders who acted under the influence.
In 2009 a court sentenced the rapist of a child to 12 years in prison, rejecting prosecution calls for a life sentence on the grounds the offender had been drinking. The decision sparked national fury.
"We felt tremendously responsible for social problems caused by drinking... we will help with efforts to change our drinking culture to a more positive one," said a sales manager at Hite-Jinro, quoted in Chosun Ilbo newspaper.
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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Hugo85
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I don't feel like slogging through that whiled lie source document, but if you're correct, it would suggest that they simply used Wiki as their source then cited the source Wiki cited without double-checking it themselves. |
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hellofaniceguy
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Who cares?!?!
Gesh....1st, 2nd or 3rd....or 10th.....it's still irresponsible no matter what country! |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:38 am Post subject: |
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I read in another artcile that the government was "considering banning the sale of alcohol in hospitals".
I had no idea you could buy beer in a hospital here. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| catman wrote: |
I read in another artcile that the government was "considering banning the sale of alcohol in hospitals".
I had no idea you could buy beer in a hospital here. |
Serious question: are there any laws regarding where you can sell alcohol in Korea? |
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chungbukdo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| I generally feel safe amongst Koreans as opposed to my own countrymen in club/bar areas or when people are drunk. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| chungbukdo wrote: |
| I generally feel safe amongst Koreans as opposed to my own countrymen in club/bar areas or when people are drunk. |
Probably because you're not a woman |
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coralreefer_1
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| fermentation wrote: |
| chungbukdo wrote: |
| I generally feel safe amongst Koreans as opposed to my own countrymen in club/bar areas or when people are drunk. |
Probably because you're not a woman |
Frankly where i am from in the US, the worst a woman might have to deal with is a drunk guy hitting on them..
This as opposed to the typical drunk who sees himself as an alpha male who will take the slightest opportunity to challenge anyone he may see as a threat to his perceived alpha-male status.
In short...drunk guys typically don't pick fights with women, as opposed to a guy who may step on his shoe while squeezing through a narrow corridor on the way to the bathroom and want to fight about it~ |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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I like the fact that when I go to buy booze here I don't have to talk to the cashier behind 3 inches of bulletproof glass who is behind a counter stocked with brillo pads, steel wool, and those flowers in the thin glass tubes, and walking in to hear someone threatening to get behind that glass and pistol whip him.
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Warning labels now on Soju and Beer bottles! |
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| catman wrote: |
| Koreans drink more spirits than the Russians do? |
That's indeed impressive! 
Now's here's the question, how do you drink like a maniac yet not get fat? Strategies?
6 Cass Lights = 1 bottle of soju = 550 calories
Which makes you drunker (I think we need to compare calories to alcohol ratio)? Would you rather the 6-pack of Cass or the soju? Tequila shots? Rum and diet coke (that sounds so douchey)? Burn it all off by futilely chasing cabs around Gangnam at 1am? |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| I like the fact that when I go to buy booze here I don't have to talk to the cashier behind 3 inches of bulletproof glass |
Good point. |
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lemak
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| catman wrote: |
| I had no idea you could buy beer in a hospital here. |
I love the sight of dudes in hospital pajamas sitting outside the Family Mart in front of the hospital drinking soju and smoking cigs with an IV still hooked up to their arm haha. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| lemak wrote: |
| catman wrote: |
| I had no idea you could buy beer in a hospital here. |
I love the sight of dudes in hospital pajamas sitting outside the Family Mart in front of the hospital drinking soju and smoking cigs with an IV still hooked up to their arm haha. |
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