Korean soju is an alcoholic beverage. The main raw material is rice, usually with wheat, barley or sweet potatoes. It belongs to the category of sake, and the alcohol content generally ranges from 18° to 22°. , the earliest known brewing time is around 1300 AD.

Korean soju is characterized by its freshness, refreshing taste and little irritation. This characteristic is suitable as a drink for barbecue and raw seafood.

Korean wine is generally divided into ordinary soju (alcohol content of about 25%, mostly brewed from cassava and sweet potatoes), high-alcohol soju (alcohol content of about 45%, grain wine), and sake (alcohol content of about 12%, made from rice Brewed), turbid rice wine (the alcohol content is unknown, the content of methanol and butanol is very high, you will have a headache after drinking it, it should be brewed from rice, but during difficult times in Korea, it was brewed from white flour, and it is generally loved by the lower class citizens), fermented rice wine ( Just like the fermented wine from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions of China, it is generally served as an ordinary cold drink). In addition, Koreans like local wines, such as something special, passport, etc., and imported wines are also very popular. Older people also like Kinmen sorghum wine.

The reason why soju is so popular is that it has a refreshing taste and is cheap. These two advantages often make drinkers happy. Although Koreans rarely persuade people to drink at the wine table, if they invite close friends and have the backing of the Korean wine culture of "Don't laugh when you're drunk," no matter it's soju or cannonball wine, once you're in the mood, you'll never get drunk again. At the beginning of this year, Doosan, South Korea’s second largest soju manufacturer, launched a new product called “Like the First Time” and created a miracle of selling hundreds of millions of bottles in just five months. During the same period, the sales volume of Jinro, the largest soju manufacturer, was nearly 8 times that of the former. This shows the popularity of soju in Korea.