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In a time-honored practice in South Korea's corporate culture, the 38-year-old manager at an online game company took his 10-person team on twice-weekly after-work drinking bouts. He exhorted his subordinates to drink, including a 29-year-old graphic designer who protested that her limit was two glasses of beer.

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LOCKNLOAD
June 9, 2007, 3:03 p.m.
...Since the big guns stopped firing in 1953....the Korean women now have a BIG say in "Yes or No"....good for them!!...as South Korea looks more and more like the United States...no more 'itty-wa' for the distaff side on that peninsula....what South Korea has accomplished in the last 53 years [from an oppressed fuedal society into a modern industrial giant] supplants the 'forgotten war' expression into the..."forgotten VICTORY"....3 cheers for the valiant Korean War Veterans here in the Big PX!!
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LOCKNLOAD
June 9, 2007, 3:13 p.m.
.....Nice one, Alexia :-)
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ZenAgain
June 9, 2007, 5:35 p.m.
The same corporate culture exists here in Japan. I'm honoured to be included in this after-work weekly ritual. There doesn't seem to be same pressure put on the ladies as there is the men here. Most women will nurse their "Calpis sour" (I Love that name) all night. There is one lady here that I never try to keep up with- she's an absolute Viking and a few others don't mess around either. Don't get the impression by this article that ALL women are dragged kicking and screaming along to these events, most are willing participants.
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Teech
June 9, 2007, 10:06 p.m.
Yeah.....You GO girls. There's nothin' like taking the broads out after work and gettin' 'em plastered so they'll put out! Let's us guys know who to promote and stuff, ya' know?
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fashionista
June 10, 2007, 1:16 p.m.
The women need to pop the cork!!