It's a natural process ~ you should stop making lactase about the age of 6 ~ unless you have a mutation that allows you to continue producing lactase ~ that's an enzyme you need to digest milk. You need it 'cause if you don't have it the flora and fauna in your intestinal tract will do the job for you and produce IMMENSE volumes of gas ~ HUGE IMMENSE volumes ~ GINORMOUS even!
That's not lactose intolerance. Lactose is digested in the small intestine. Milk actually makes food stay in the stomach longer (fat and protein content). So if the Korean kid vomited within seconds, it never reached his intestines and had absolutely nothing to do with whether he could digest it.