[Olog-hai]

Yes, if the stories about their youth passing out in the streets due to overindulgence in soju aren’t exaggerating.

[GeronL]

Anyone who watches Korean dramas can tell you there is no social taboo of drinking in that country, it is usually expected as a condition of employment that you will go out drinking as a group at least once a month.

Otherwise it leads to piggy-back rides.

lol

[erkelly]

God created whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.

[LambSlave]

Yes, if the stories about their youth passing out in the streets due to overindulgence in soju aren’t exaggerating.

They are not, and it's not just the youth. I once walked past a corpse frozen to death in the street one early morning on my way to work In Daegu-- a few too many during a nasty cold snap.