When you watch Korean dramas, you should be able to feel the degree to which Koreans like to drink! Whether it is socializing, friends gathering is indispensable to the opportunity to drink, but also let the annual shochu, beer in South Korea to create a huge business opportunity of tens of billions of bottles, but behind it also caused liver disease, drunk driving high rate of social problems, today Xiaobian is going to introduce the Korean drinking culture and "drunk driving" social atmosphere, in the end what the government makes corresponding measures, if you are curious, come with me to see it!
1. Korean drinking culture
Along with the high-pressure workplace and social life, Koreans can be said to be inseparable from wine, and the wine table etiquette is deeply rooted in Confucianism, and the number of toasts to each other naturally increases a lot. It is worth mentioning that whether you have found that a bottle of shochu can only pour "7 cups" of careful machine, which makes Koreans who must toast not be allowed to order another bottle of shochu to make up an "even number" cup, drinking more than one bottle of shochu can be said to be a very common scene, plus a variety of barbecue combinations, magrimi and other creative drinking methods, so that Koreans derive the desire to continue to stall.
2. Driving industry
The prevalence of drinking has also promoted the operation of the "substitute driving" industry, as long as you make a call and inform the destination, you can safely hand over the car to the driver, according to the length of the distance to determine the price, usually the price code falls on about 20,000 to 30,000 won, but also need to add the driver's return car fee, which also creates many people in order to save money, there is a "fluke mentality" that even if drinking is only a short distance, driving home by yourself should not be a problem, embarking on the road of no return of "drunk driving".
3. "Yin Chang Ho Fa"
In November 2018, South Korea strengthened the legal regulation of "drunk driving", and the reason for the change of law can be traced back to the "Haeundae drunk driving incident" in September of the same year, the victim Yoon Chang-ho was a soldier on vacation, who was hit by a drunk-driving vehicle while walking on the sidewalk, and still died of brains after 45 days of rescue, ending his life at the age of 22. After the outbreak of the incident, Yin Changhao went to the Blue House to petition "My friend's life is broken because of the drunk driving traffic accident, please help me", which led to a total of more than 400,000 people's petitions.
After the petition received government support, it also led to the revision of the drunk driving law, also known as the "Yin Changhao Law", which was officially passed on November 29, 2018, with an alcohol concentration of more than 0.03% to meet the standard for drunk driving, and the standard for revoking a driver's license was also revised down from the original 0.10% to 0.08%, and drunk driving was caught more than 2 times and could be sentenced to 2 years to 5 years in prison, or fined 10 million to 20 million won; the maximum sentence for injury was more than 15 years in prison, and the fine for yike was 10 million to 30 million The death penalty was changed from the original minimum of 1 year to a maximum of 3 years to a maximum life sentence.
4. The benefits of change
According to the Korea Traffic Safety Corporation, since the five years from 2014 to 2018, there have been 107,109 "drunk driving traffic accidents" across the country, equivalent to 59 drunk driving accidents every day, accounting for 9.6% of all traffic accidents, in addition to 2,441 deaths from drunk driving, and 186,391 injuries. It is worth mentioning that after the Yin Changhao Law came into effect on December 18, 2018, 295 people died in drunk driving traffic accidents in 2019, a decrease of 14.7% compared with the previous year, achieving a positive improvement effect.
5. Artists who have committed drunk driving
Artist who has drunk and driven - (1) Kinseil lun
Born as a child star, kim so-hyun and Kim Yu-jeong are jointly known as South Korea's "three golds", actor Kim Sai-lun, who has starred in many works, broke out on May 18, 2022 that he was found to have drunk driving by the Seoul Gangnam Police Department and hit-and-run! Seoul's Gangnam Police Department said that Kim Sailun hit the building more than three times while driving in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, around 8:00 a.m. that morning, and because of the impact on the ground transformer, the surrounding power supply was cut off, the nearby road traffic was paralyzed, and because it was a peak period, the scene was chaotic. In addition, due to the power outage in the nearby shopping mall, many credit card payment machines are unusable, resulting in complaints, the Korean Power Company has begun emergency repair work, and other details are currently under investigation by the police department.
Artist who has drunk driving - (2) Lin Xuanmin
Lin Yumin, who debuted as the group AB6IX in 2019, announced through his agency on June 4, 2020: "After having dinner and drinking with friends on May 31, the police seized drunk driving on the way back to the dormitory, and the driver's license was revoked", and the new album "VIVID", which was originally scheduled to be released on June 8, was also postponed to June 29, and the group will also be transformed into a four-person system, and my acting activities will be interrupted. On June 8, the company also issued an official position: "We will follow Lin Xuanmin's opinions to minimize the reputation damage to the group, and decide to withdraw from the group and reflect deeply."
Artist who has drunk and driven - (3) Lu Hongzhe
Lu Hongzhe, who was a regular member of the variety show "Infinite Challenge", was exposed by the Korean media "Dispatch" in November 2014 when driving a vehicle through the intersection of Seoul's Gangnam District, he was stopped by the police, and the blood test also exceeded the alcohol test standard, and after the outbreak of the incident, in addition to issuing an apology statement, he also withdrew from the host group, and the picture he appeared on the show was also edited to the greatest extent, and his acting career was deeply hit. In December 2015, he returned to the screen with the variety show "The Character of the Room", publicly apologized at the press conference, and later knelt down to apologize at a lecture in 2017, regretting the mistakes made three years ago.
Artist who has drunk driving - (4) Qiang Ren
Qiang Ren, who was a member of the Korean group Super Junior, committed drunk driving and hit-and-run in 2009 and 2016 respectively, and after the first offender, he personally disclosed on the show: "Apologize to President Lee So-man on his knees", but after 7 years of drunk driving, and crashed into a street lamp to escape, fined 7 million won, and the successive controversies also made Qiang In July 2019 announce his withdrawal from the group through a personal IG, and felt guilty to fans and members.
Artist who has drunk and driven - (5) NO:EL
"High Rapper" no: EL, the father is congressman Zhang Jiyuan, but he drove into a motorcycle rider in September 2019, and was later found by the police to have drunk driving up to 0.08%, reaching the level of revoked driver's license, and even tried to find someone to face the crime, causing controversy. Afterwards, the court ruled that he would be sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison, suspended for two years, and a 40-hour driving education course, which would be interrupted by a great future.
Artist who has drunk driving - (6) JUN. K
In the morning of December 2018, 2PM member JUN.K was inspected by the police at the intersection of Sinsadong in Seoul, and the alcohol test value was as high as 0.074% enough to revoke the driver's license, and afterwards the agency also announced the suspension of the event, and published an apology letter to the fan group "My behavior has disappointed everyone, and I want to sincerely apologize here again", and indirectly informed the public of low-key enlistment, the time and place are in a non-public form.
After reading the "Korean drunk driving" law and social situation, it can only be said that no matter what the standard of drunk driving set by the law is, as long as there is drinking, you cannot do any driving behavior, and do not hold a fluke mentality, because you never know what will happen in the next second. It is good to reflect deeply after missing out, but not to let anything happen is the best policy, we must abide by the "drinking, not driving, driving without drinking" norms, to avoid hurting innocent people!