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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Hangover remedies, Korean style ANN - Friday, December 24 Send IM Story Print Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) - You are awake, although you cannot open your eyes because of all the mascara goop gluing your eyes shut. Your body feels heavy and sluggish, your mouth feels like a desert, you are dying for some water and your head is throbbing. All the stupid mistakes you made the night before at the party slowly come back to you but before you can even start to regret any of that, a swirling stomachache tells you to make a run to the bathroom. Yes, this is the beginning of your dreadful day hugging the toilet. There is high possibility that many of you might be experiencing such a morning right now as it is the time of the year for crazy year-end and New Year parties. The harder you partied, the worse the hangover gets and the more clueless you are about how to get over it. In the US, two young graduates from the University of Colorado who launched a business last month selling their services as "Hangover Helpers" are reported to be enjoying a marketing bonanza. For a reasonable fee of US$15 and a phone call, the helpers come to your house the morning after a big party with burritos and Gatorade to soothe aching heads and stomachs, all the while making the house livable again. For those in Korea, where no such angelic business has emerged yet, here are some Korean ways of preventing and dealing with hangovers. Before the night You may have seen businessmen decked in suits grab a bottle of drink from a convenience store and hurriedly gulp it down before heading for a big hoesik, or company dinner which usually involves heavy drinking. The drinks, including Morning Care, Dawn or Condition, contain various ingredients known to prevent or minimise hangovers. Those that contain raisin tree extracts are the most popular these days because medical research has found out that the ingredients help detoxify the liver and bowels, speed up alcohol decomposition and limit the remaining aldehyde, one of the major causes of hangovers, in the body. Korea Food and Drug Administration confirmed the effects of raisin tree extracts last year, leading to the production of many drinks containing the ingredients. The best way to make use of the products is to drink them a couple of hours before starting drinking because they prepare the liver to start dissolving alcohol. In the case of raisin tree extracts, they are most effective to lessen hangovers if you consume 2460mg in a day, according to the administration. One commonly known drawback about the drinks, however, is that they sometimes overwork and trick the body into undestimating the amount of alcohol consumed, ending up making you drink more than usual. So make sure you don't put all your trust in the drinks, and keep in mind that they have their limits. During the party At parties here, the key to survive is to avoid Korean-style mixed drinks known as poktanju. Whether they are combinations of beer and whisky, beer and soju, soju and whisky or all three together plus a bit of coke, the more they are mixed, the deadlier the morning gets. It is common knowledge that nothing is more stupid than pouring alcohol into an empty stomach. Make sure you have had a proper meal before you start drinking and continuously consume high protein snacks during the party, which lesson alcohol absorption to the body. When at a table full of Korean dishes, look for slimy food like eels or yams because they contain lots of mucin, a highly glycosylated peptide, which is known to protect the stomach, prevent hangovers and cure gastric ulcers and elteritis as well. The morning after What Koreans seek the most as soon as they open their eyes in the morning after an exhausting party is haejangguk, or Korean soup for a hangover. Haejangguk refers to soups like seonjiguk, ox-blood soup, bukeoguk, dried pollack soup, and congnamulguk, bean sprouts soup, which are hot, salty and spicy just in the right amount so it feels like they are rinsing out the toxins from your body as they flow down the throat. The refreshing taste aside, the ingredients are actually scientifically proven to soothe hangovers. Dried pollack, for example, contains lots of methionine which turns into glutathion when it goes into your body and removes noxious chemicals formed by alcohol. Bean sprouts, especially the tail part, contain lots of asparagine which helps the liver produce the enzyme ADH which dissolves alcohol. Restaurants that serve such soups can be easily found anywhere in Korea, especially in every nook and corner of office building districts to welcome business men who drink all night long and end their hoesik with a nice haejangguk finale. After a bowl of haejangguk, Koreans also follow the universal remedy of overcoming hangovers ? resting and drinking lots of fluids to flush out the toxins. As one of the main factors contributing to hangover is dehydration, the more and the faster you start drinking water, the quicker you will return to a lively state. 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