whenever people try to make me drink, I usually just say I don’t like the taste, but if it’s someone I really don’t want to offend I say alcohol makes me sick (which it does – I consider hangovers unhealthy). 🙂

While Australia has a big drinking culture, it’s not everywhere and easier to avoid. Where as in Korea if someone older or in a higher position than you tells you to drink… you don’t have much choice. And alcohol is so important for socialising there.
Haha but yeah I don’t think taking wine to bed is normal here.

sounds….lovely? haha

He says at an actual bar it’s the usual things like beer, vodka, cocktails etc. There are a lot of bars but drinking soju and eating together is much more part of the culture. Soju is everywhere but the type of place varies. Like even Korean places in Sydney vary- where you have a restaurant where the food is good (so more focus on having a meal) and you can order soju if you feel like it and then there are places which are primarily for drinking (so the soju is cheaper), you order food as well but more for snacking rather than a full meal. Those places stay open very late.

Drinking culture does seem to vary so much from place to place. I really like it in southern Europe. Wine seemed big but getting wasted wasn’t. In Brazil, I felt like everyone was a much lighter weight than me and mostly drank weak beer. Maybe it was just people I knew, but it wasn’t really the drinking culture for me since I am *not* a beer fan.