If you wanna go to a Pharmacy in Korea youll need to visit a "yak-guk"(약국). "Yak" means medicine and "guk" people, so its kinda like visiting a medicine man or shaman in africa. They have all sorts of normal pharmacy drugs at the Korea pharmacy but they also have what Michael calls "Chinese Medicine". James said that, like legend or tales has it, China uses all sorts of magical cure-alls and mystery pills made from who know what. Reminds me of Moxie or how Coca-cola used to be made with cocaine. Ill admit I have been taking a supplement that I first bought at the Family Mart down the street called Bacchus-D (박카스D). Someone told me that Bacchus-D was the substitute for Redbull (Redbull is illegal in Korea because it "leads to hysteria"). I have seen it at the bars, Bacchus-D, being served with Jager. Recently I found out that Bacchus-D is a vitamin drink from China. It still tastes good.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Medicine People
If you wanna go to a Pharmacy in Korea youll need to visit a "yak-guk"(약국). "Yak" means medicine and "guk" people, so its kinda like visiting a medicine man or shaman in africa. They have all sorts of normal pharmacy drugs at the Korea pharmacy but they also have what Michael calls "Chinese Medicine". James said that, like legend or tales has it, China uses all sorts of magical cure-alls and mystery pills made from who know what. Reminds me of Moxie or how Coca-cola used to be made with cocaine. Ill admit I have been taking a supplement that I first bought at the Family Mart down the street called Bacchus-D (박카스D). Someone told me that Bacchus-D was the substitute for Redbull (Redbull is illegal in Korea because it "leads to hysteria"). I have seen it at the bars, Bacchus-D, being served with Jager. Recently I found out that Bacchus-D is a vitamin drink from China. It still tastes good.
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