About the drinking culture of the universities in Korea

  First of all, I want to say I dislike a lot about the university culture of my country, especially drinking and how have to obey our elders. I don’t understand why are we drinking when we join the university and during the university life. This drinking problem is not only in university life, it’s all around in Korean society anyway, but I think the drinking culture of our universities is where the problem begins the beginning of drinking problem in Korean society. The reason for excuse of this is that we had too much pressure in high school so when we enter university, so we have more freedom when we are university students. That’s true, but I don’t know why the alcohol drinks is has to involved.

  University is a roomplace for studying but we are drinking more often than studying. I know the situation is much getting better than the old days in a good way, of course. These days seniors or juniors are not always forced to drink with freshman, but if you’re a freshman who has never tried alcohol drinks. I bet you are not very comfortable.

  I don’t think that drinking alcoholis always bad. I didn’t intend drink alcohol beverage is absolutely bad. As you might guess, I have never been drunk, but I understand the advantages of drinking with good friends or somebody. Despite of this advantages, I think our universities must not considered as  a bar.  Every many years during entrance ceremonies in universities, there is almost always a freshman died by too much drinking per one university. The olders like seniors are not very strongly recommend freshmen to keep drinking on the night of the semi-formal entrance ceremony. Unless they fallen into the drinking party atmosphere too much and they lost their judgment, drinking can be death to them.  This picture is drinking the alcohol in a bowl. It’s controversial tradition in korean universites.