S. Korea's social life runs through bars: reports

South Koreans lean on bars for socializing more than drinkers elsewhere, according to two new reports commissioned by AB InBev, parent company of Oriental Brewery, as global alcohol volumes hold more than 30 percent above early-2000s levels amid declining per-capita consumption. An Oxford Economics study of 5,311 legal-drinking-age adults across five countries — Korea, Brazil, Mexico, the UK and the US — found that 93 percent of Koreans say bars are their go-to or occasional place for socializin