Imagine that your new semester just started. What do you usually do during the first week? Many students go to parties which celebrate a new semester. Meeting your classmates and seniors after a vacation may make you feel excited. However, there is always pain that comes after the party. That is a hangover! Almost every person hates the feeling of nausea because brought on by a hangover. How can we relieve the hangover quickly? If we have our own reliable hangover cures, any drinking parties will not be frightening.

  First of all, in Korea there are some hangover remedies such as drinking sports drinks, eating greasy foods, eating spicy foods, and so on. Some people say that drinking sports drinks is better than drinking water to ease symptoms of hangover. Is drinking sports drinks really helpful to cure the hangover? Sports drinks compensate for dehydration experienced after drinking alcohol and it also functions to dilute alcohol by–products in the body. So, when people feel thirsty after they drink alcohol, sports drinks satisfy their thirst. If you like to drink sports drinks you can use them as a hangover remedy. Next, there are people who feel disgusted. They face a hangover by eating oily foods. Eating oily foods is better than starving. However, you must not expect that to work. Some vegetables in pizza help hangovers but fatty food is a burden to the stomach and causes nausea.

  Finally, most Korean eats spicy foods as a hangover remedy. If many people think of hangover, they want to eat spicy foods. To that extent, Koreans loves spicy taste. Spicy foods make you sweat so that it gets out gastritis. But if you often eat spicy foods, you may hurt your stomach.

  Countries near Korea are China and Japan. First, Japan’s hangover remedy is mixing rice with green tea. Green tea’s component ‘polyphenol’ dilutes alcohol and helps hangover. If you watched ‘zzang gu’, you can know ‘umeboshi’ which is a hangover remedy food. ‘Umeboshi’ looks like a pickled vegetable. Sometimes Japanese eat a light donkoch ramen. China developed tea for a hangover remedy from old times. If you drink tea, vitamins and caffeine make help you feel awake. Furthermore, foods with eggs may resolve a hangover. Egg’s contain ‘methionine’ which protects the liver.

  Let’s find out about hangover remedies in North America and Europe. Europeans eat tomatoes which reduces symptoms of a hangover. You can eat tomatoes before drinking alcohol and that is good for a hangover remedy. because tomatoes’ vitamin break down alcohol. Dutch people eat herrings. They fill the herrings with salt and onions. Pickled cucumbers also help resolve a hangover. There is wisdom of the ancestors. Because cucumbers and vinegar help resolve hangovers ancestors made pickled cucumber as a hangover remedy. In America, most people eat oily foods to resolve a hangover.

  Like this, there are many interesting hangover remedies. You should find out a hangover remedy which suits your body. If you do that, you can attend a drinking party without fear. Of course not drinking heavily may help you avoid hangovers altogether. Do you know this fall DU party for now? If you know this information, you might be a smart DU person. Remember this!

L.L.F Reporter Ha-Yeong Yang.