A Bar Where Nobody Orders Drinks: How Korea's Drinking Culture Is Changing

A Bar Where Nobody Orders Drinks is a cultural analysis of a familiar Korean scene that now feels subtly different: tables are full, conversation is long, food orders are abundant—yet bottles stay nearly untouched.

Rather than treating drinking less as a moral shift or a simple "health trend," this book follows a structural question: what happens when alcohol stops being the center of social life and becomes optional? Across workplaces, universities, and nightlife, the book traces how drinki...