By Here is some news for all you Red Bull drinkers out there in Korea:
The Kyunghyang Shinmun reports that the KFDA has found cocaine in Red Bull being sold in Korea. This follows similar reports in Taiwan and Hong Kong. 48 cans of the cocaine-laced were drink were found in a store in an apartment building in the “foreigner-dense” neighborhood of Hannam-dong in Seoul. [Korea Beat]
So how the heck did the cocaine get into the drink?
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
10:43 pm on June 4th, 2009 1
There were some cases of cocain traces found in Red Bull products in Germany and Austria lately, but that was "Red Bull Cola" (I don't know if this is even sold here in Korea).
A marketing gag perhaps?
1:03 am on June 5th, 2009 2
"A marketing gag perhaps?"
That or dubious reporting and/or lab techniques.
1:16 am on June 5th, 2009 3
I love how the douchebag who wrote the article still had to smear the foreign population in Korea by association.
For the slow: By writing that a foreign drink product containing drugs was being sold in a "foreigner-dense" area, the writer suggests that the foreign population here knew of the drug content and consumed it for exactly that reason, since it is widely "known" here that foreigners use drugs.
Can you say "Weiguk Kongpo" (Xenophobia)? Tae Han Min Guk!!!
2:31 pm on June 7th, 2009 4
Simon's scoop of the year: Korea is racist.
4:41 pm on June 7th, 2009 5
On the coat tails of the Germans:
from: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090526-19519.ht…
"According to daily newspaper Berliner Morgenpost, the lab found 0.4 microgrammes of cocaine per litre of Red Bull, and there are just 1,000,000 microgrammes in a gramme."
Wow. What a buzz!
"The trace amounts of cocaine are from the “de-cocainised” coca leaves that are used worldwide in many products as food flavouring."
from wiki:
"Just like "decaf" coffee does retain a minute quantity of caffeine, "decocanized" coca tea will still contain a minute quantity of the drug. When the cocaine is removed, the amount of cocaine is small enough for the product to legally sell in the USA according to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs."
Much ado about nothing reminiscent of Reafer Madness. There are many more harmful ingredients in many foods but the authorities can get some real mileage out of hard narcotics.
10:37 pm on January 28th, 2010 6
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