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막걸리mak·geol·li · Makgeolli
Cloudy rice wine, lightly fizzy, about 4 to 6%. The name means freshly filtered.
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막걸리 (mak·geol·li) is rice wine that is barely filtered, so it pours white. Visit Korea's page on it (20 February 2025) gives the method: rice or wheat, yeast and water, one to two weeks of fermentation, then a rough filter, which leaves it at about 4 to 6%. Filter it properly and you have 청주 (cheong·ju); distil that and you have soju. Old records call it 탁주 (tak·ju), and it was the farmworker's mid-morning drink, 새참 (sae·cham). The page names the breweries it would send you to, Jipyeong in Yangpyeong (founded 1925) among them, and Jangsoo Draft as the best seller.
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The market is small and getting dearer. Hankyung's reading of 2025 tax data (16 August 2026): makgeolli from regional breweries rose 5% by volume to 12,852 kilolitres and 26.5% by value to 61 billion won, so a litre now averages about 4,745 won against 3,940 a year earlier. Lotte Department Store's traditional-liquor sales to customers in their twenties and thirties rose about 130%, and GS25's ran at 2.4 times the previous year through November.
The trade meets every May. MAXPO 2026, the makgeolli expo, ran 15 to 17 May at the aT Center in Yangjae with more than 120 breweries and about 150 exhibitors.
하는 법How to
Order it by the bottle; Visit Korea suggests it chilled. Pour for the people you are with and let them pour yours: Korea.net's page on drinking manners says a cup is received with both hands, and one hand is fine only when the two of you are less than five years apart in age.
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막걸리 한 병 주세요.
A bottle of makgeolli, please.
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막걸리는 지평이랑 장수 있어요.
For makgeolli we have Jipyeong and Jangsu.
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- Makgeolli: The People's Brew with Unique Regional Charms, Visit Korea (Korea Tourism Organization), Feb 20, 2025Open
- 전통주 출고액 분석 기사 (국세청 2025년 자료), Hankyung (한국경제), Aug 16, 2026Open
- Mimiok Makes Its Mark at Korea's Largest Traditional Liquor Expo, Segye Biz, May 22, 2026Open
- Alcohol in Korean Life [8]: Sul and Manners, Korea.net (Korean Culture and Information Service), from Intangible Cultural Heritage of Korea, Jan 29, 2014Open
Last checked Nov 4, 2026.
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