How to buy beer cheaply in korea
The price of beer in the US is about 5 to 10 dollars for 6 pieces. In Korea, it is hard to get this cheap. If you buy a local beer, it will be solved for that price, but Korean even doesn't prefer local beer often. If you mix with Soju which is famous local alcohol, you can use local beer instead of imported beer, but those who eat beer usually prefer beer from abroad.
One of the unique things about Korea compared to other countries is that you can get beer and other alcohols 24 hours thanks to the convenience store. Because convenience stores are located all over the place, getting alcohol is not that hard. However, the price of a convenience store is a bit expensive because you have to pay a fixed price compared to a discount store. Nevertheless, beers from abroad in aspects of Korean is relatively cheap in there. It's less than 10 bucks using their discounts policy for 4 cans.
■ Types of convenience stores in Korea
There are many convenience stores in Korea. Typical convenience stores include CU, 7 eleven, and GS. All three convenience stores are offering different monthly discounts policies. You need to look out for different events every month. And it is written on the window of refrigerator. The difficult thing is that it is written in Korean. Maybe you could try some state-of-the-art function of cell phone like translating a shot of photo you've just taken.
CU convenience store is like this.
It actually says on the window in Korean '10,000 won for 4 cans' at this pic.
7eleven The convenience store looks like this.
It's everywhere. I've heard that this store came from Japan. It works very well in Korea, too.
This is what GS convenience stores look like.
Now you saw utmost famous 3 convenience stores in Korea.
■ How to buy a beer
At the convenience store I mentioned above, it is not easy to miss the event products because you can see the big advertisement sign on the window as I said above. From the standpoint of foreigners, you can look for something written as 10,000 won for 4 cans. You can buy a wide variety of imported beer from overseas. Japan, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany and the United States. You can purchase 4 cans for 10,000 won, regardless of the original price and the nationality.
If you come to Korea, there is no reason to avoid to eat local alcohol. There is a representative alcohol in Korea. That is Soju. This Soju is also easily found at convenience stores. One tip is that you can put a half cup in a cup of Soju and mix beer in a Korean beer glass to get a perfect ratio of so-called 'Somac'.
One of the unique things about Korea compared to other countries is that you can get beer and other alcohols 24 hours thanks to the convenience store. Because convenience stores are located all over the place, getting alcohol is not that hard. However, the price of a convenience store is a bit expensive because you have to pay a fixed price compared to a discount store. Nevertheless, beers from abroad in aspects of Korean is relatively cheap in there. It's less than 10 bucks using their discounts policy for 4 cans.
■ Types of convenience stores in Korea
There are many convenience stores in Korea. Typical convenience stores include CU, 7 eleven, and GS. All three convenience stores are offering different monthly discounts policies. You need to look out for different events every month. And it is written on the window of refrigerator. The difficult thing is that it is written in Korean. Maybe you could try some state-of-the-art function of cell phone like translating a shot of photo you've just taken.
CU convenience store is like this.
7eleven The convenience store looks like this.
This is what GS convenience stores look like.
■ How to buy a beer
At the convenience store I mentioned above, it is not easy to miss the event products because you can see the big advertisement sign on the window as I said above. From the standpoint of foreigners, you can look for something written as 10,000 won for 4 cans. You can buy a wide variety of imported beer from overseas. Japan, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany and the United States. You can purchase 4 cans for 10,000 won, regardless of the original price and the nationality.
If you come to Korea, there is no reason to avoid to eat local alcohol. There is a representative alcohol in Korea. That is Soju. This Soju is also easily found at convenience stores. One tip is that you can put a half cup in a cup of Soju and mix beer in a Korean beer glass to get a perfect ratio of so-called 'Somac'.
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