**Little addendum:** I spent six months in South Korea and others can likely back this up, I've seen the drinking firsthand. These guys are S-tier drinkers. Soju is a supplement to their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I went to a "business lunch", and I rarely drink as-is, and the Koreans we went with were pounding shots. It was like half past noon.
As a ginger, they are starting late. Some times I would wake up at 4am 3 hours before I needed to get ready for work and have a triple vodka in a hot beverage to get back to sleep.
You likely have the gene that makes it very hard for you to get drunk. You likely also notice that painkillers do nothing, opiates don't work, and your dentist has to double the novacaine and then inject more halfway through.
But since you and pain are longtime friends, you probably don't even tell the dentist the novacaine wore off ten minutes ago.
I've taken my dad's roxicet after a drunk driver hit him head on going 90 passing a logging truck in a dually 2ton full bed pickup and yeah it did nothing. I also used to do a lot of laughing gas. Man i miss laughing gas.
In fact, the first study I found showing the relationship between alcohol abuse and testosterone and impotence literally used Korea as the case model:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9708857/
**Little addendum:** I spent six months in South Korea and others can likely back this up, I've seen the drinking firsthand. These guys are S-tier drinkers. Soju is a supplement to their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I went to a "business lunch", and I rarely drink as-is, and the Koreans we went with were pounding shots. It was like half past noon.
But since you and pain are longtime friends, you probably don't even tell the dentist the novacaine wore off ten minutes ago.