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[mindmetoo]

A friend who works for the UN came to Seoul a couple weeks ago to participate in some talks on what Korea should do in the event of bird flu hitting the nation (at a bird flu conference in Singapore, the Korean delegate only seemed to want to know at which point they declare martial law). She commented to me she was hammering down poktanjus/boiler makers with the minister of health.

I nearly spit up my milk when she told me this over MSN. Last year the minster of health and other members of the government made a big thing about trying to eliminate the poktanju and other heavy drinking rituals from the business and political culture of the nation.

[Hyeon Een]

He probably just meant amongst dirty poor people. Rich people are clean, obviously.