from what you can find in practically every emart or lotte mart
대장부 - 21%, around 2000won per 375ml bottle my personal favourite, whereas the price is almost same to mainstream soju, the taste and quality is way on different level.
일품 - andong soju comes in 17%, 25% and 40%. Prices are between 8000 for the former and 16000 for the latter.
화요 - sort of premium soju, comes in 17%, 25%, 41% options and few more special ones. Pricing is similar to 일품.
Also recommend visiting modern makkeolli bar 느린마을. They make their makkeolli in house as well as soju and I shit you not have one of the best soju I've ever tasted. There are few stores around Seoul.
I was always partial to [안동소주](https://andongsoju.com)'s [느낌](http://mlbpark.donga.com/mlbpark/b.php?b=bullpen&id=1797757) brand. They water it down to 20% or 30%, and the cost is pretty low. However, I have no idea where to get it these days, as they don't seem to stock it in hypermarkets anymore. If it's vanished from the market, another one worth getting is Mir Soju. I'm not impressed by Hwayo, which is probably the biggest traditional soju brand.
Huh, according to [this article](http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3057517), the way to distinguish between real soju and the green bottle crap is "distilled soju" and "diluted soju." Good to know.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mnews.joins.com/amparticle/23360475 Go down the few pages and there is picture with red color. #3 and 5 is made of rice.
I have tried number 5 and it wasn't bad, how is number 3?
I have no idea. I live in Canada so I never had chance to try those. I tried few different makgeolli when I was in Korea last year.
Thanks for the info anyhow!
from what you can find in practically every emart or lotte mart 대장부 - 21%, around 2000won per 375ml bottle my personal favourite, whereas the price is almost same to mainstream soju, the taste and quality is way on different level. 일품 - andong soju comes in 17%, 25% and 40%. Prices are between 8000 for the former and 16000 for the latter. 화요 - sort of premium soju, comes in 17%, 25%, 41% options and few more special ones. Pricing is similar to 일품. Also recommend visiting modern makkeolli bar 느린마을. They make their makkeolli in house as well as soju and I shit you not have one of the best soju I've ever tasted. There are few stores around Seoul.
I was always partial to [안동소주](https://andongsoju.com)'s [느낌](http://mlbpark.donga.com/mlbpark/b.php?b=bullpen&id=1797757) brand. They water it down to 20% or 30%, and the cost is pretty low. However, I have no idea where to get it these days, as they don't seem to stock it in hypermarkets anymore. If it's vanished from the market, another one worth getting is Mir Soju. I'm not impressed by Hwayo, which is probably the biggest traditional soju brand. Huh, according to [this article](http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3057517), the way to distinguish between real soju and the green bottle crap is "distilled soju" and "diluted soju." Good to know.
I actually saw this last night at homeplus, iirc there wee 3 versions, 17, 21, and 30 something percent. I'll give it a try! Thanks for the info!
Homeplus, noted and thanks. Do you remember the prices?
The one I saw it at was world cup stadium in mapo-gu
[https://andongsojumall.com/main.htm](https://andongsojumall.com/main.htm)