Drunk driving plunges over 80% in a decade in South Korea

Drunk driving in Korea appears to have plummeted since the early 2010s, with government data showing Sunday that the 2023 figure has dropped to just one-sixth of the level reported 10 years earlier The “2025 Alcohol Statistics Report” by the Ministry of Health and Welfare showed that 2.1 percent of adults here had driven after drinking at least once in 2023, but this was one-sixth the level of 2013, when it was 12.6 percent. The rate has been on a downward trend since peaking at 17.1 percent in

By The Korea Herald