Considering how popular that video was of the Korean anti-marijuana PSA from 1975, I thought I would upload another old video.

This one is a short film from 1977 about Makgeolli, Korean rice beer*. Makgeolli has enjoyed quite a resurgence in the last year or two over in Korea, but it was not so popular when I first arrived there, way back in the 1990s. But somehow, on my second day in Korea (down in Gwangju), I somehow ended up in a traditional-style pub, with wooden walls and furniture and waiters and waitresses in hanbok, drinking the stuff.

The film shows how Makgeolli was made, with a brewery full of rice, huge vats of the stuff fermenting, being bottled, etc. And at the end, you get a few shots of people drinking it at a bar — 400 won for a bottle of Makgeolli back then. Enjoy.


*Although many people call Makgeolli rice wine, in fact Makgeolli is much more like beer in how it is made and drunk.

(Update: I finally figured out how to get the video to work on Youtube, so I swapped the Dailymotion link for Youtube).