I choose number 2 and 4 .
First, I'm going to talk about number 4. As I said in class, in Korea there is an alcohol culture. This culture is similar to Chaina, but alcohol is not like a water like that. Korean would like to enjoy drinking some places like Meeting, MT(Membership Training) in university. If you watch a Korean movie, you can see a Korean alcohol and beer easily. Expecially, if the someone have a lot of stress, he or she find a beer or alcohol with their friends. In that case, they want to be drunk to relieve their sad feeling. If Korean freinds explain unhappy events like breaking with her boyfriend, failing a exam, they usually say to their friends including me, "Could you buy some beers for me?" Every begining of semester, in University some students die because they are drunk too much. Therefore, today university students try to change this culture. No more than 10 years ago, if an elder gave a glass of Korean alcohol "soju" to freshmen, the younger had to empty his or her cup. It was difficulte to refuse thier glass. Thesdays, students think that alcohol culture have a lot of problem so we have to change it. Lately, it is more easier to refuse drinking. However, it is still welcome if you can enjoy drinking in Korea.
Because of Alcohol culture in Korea, the rate of liver cancer is very high. That is a health problem in Korea.
Wednesday 8 October 2008
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Reading Soojin's account of drinking in Korea reminded me of drinking in Australia, where alcohol plays a large role in social life. Although Australia is not big on obeying seniors, freshman activities at university almost always used to involve drinking, and as in Korea, large amounts of alcohol were drunk: the aims were vomiting or unconsciousness. It seems odd when you think about it: the most intelligent and best educated group of people were deliberately engaging in behaviour that they knew to be seriously harmful to their own brains! In fact, it sounds pretty stupid, and it was, but it was also difficult to refuse. However, as in Korea, things were starting to change thirty years ago, and although students still drink a lot at their parties, I think it is less than in the past, perhaps because other drugs are more popular, such as marijuana, which is probably a lot nicer and less harmful than alcohol, even though it is still illegal in Australia.
ReplyDeleteOn the whole, I think people who are stoned on marijuana are much more pleasant, and certainly less violent, than people drunk on alcohol. It seems strange that alcohol, the effects of which are worse than those of marijuana, should be legal, while marijuana is illegal. Perhaps politicians' thinking has been affected by too much drinking.