Kim Kyung-seop recalls going to cheap bars after class with his friends, where they binged on as much makgeolli as possible. “You know the saying, ‘alcohol consumes men?’ It was like that.” Makgeolli, ...

Rice vinegar is a lightly sweet and sour vinegar that’s often used in Asian cooking. All it takes to make rice vinegar is to ferment the rice in water to produce alcohol. This rice alcohol is then ...

The mutation responsible for the alcohol flush reaction, an unpleasant response to alcohol that is relatively common in people of Asian descent, may have occurred following the domestication of rice.