| Fear and Loathing in Daejeon by Jeff1701A |
May 9, 2008 4:23 pm
Mood: amused, 889 Views | First of all this was a story a I wrote for a foreigner group newsletter in Daejeon. I won't say which on because I don't KFF to boot me for some rule.
Here it is.
Myself coming from Alberta, Canada, I was a bit
surprised by the drinking culture here in Korea.
I’ve been to Arizona and Las Vegas and so the
concept of getting a beer from a 7-11 anytime was
not new to me. That Korean man sitting in the
pouring rain with a 1.8 Liter bottle of beer was a
new sight for me. Still it did make me better about my own drinking habits. Granted I’m no stranger to the bars and AA meetings, but after a hard day of babysitting ADD Korean children there is nothing better for me to unwind than a couple of beers; however, they are the 1.8 Liters.
So this is just going to be fair warning to any new westerners that have just arrived in Korea and are new to the bar scene. If your from the Prairies, like myself, then all the bars back home are on the ground. In Daejeon almost every bar is above or below sea level, after a full night of drinking the cheap four thousand won beer, Hite, Red Rock, or Cass that stairway is going to be a drunken Everest excursion. At about half way up or down the steps just make base camp and try to for the summit in the morning. Usually there will be a Korean cab driver that will grab your arm while drinking a shot of Soju shovel your drunken ass into a cab and drop you off at home.
On the subject of Soju if you want to describe Soju to your friends back home, it is best described as if the two drinks Tequila and Saki could themselves both get drunk and have a one night stand the resulting offspring would be Soju. Some hard alcohol drinks do different things to different people. For example in Canada, Rye is generally known to be anger in a bottle. Soju is a lot like wanting to have a three-way with your long time girlfriend and her experimental friend from college. Seems like a good idea at the time, but it may have unforeseen consequences. You figure that if you just get this out of your system; you be able to settle down and start a family. Then the morning after your long time girlfriend tells you she’s dumping you for her experimental friend from college. Or maybe that’s just how it is with me. So everyone watch out that one missed placed brick that I seem to always trip over coming out of Brickhouse. | |
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