Cadaver Water

The youths at Hongdae may have “holy water“, but it looks like the more adventurous partyers might want to try out the “cadaver water” up in Ilsan:

A 55-year-old married woman identified by her last name Lee, who was concerned by her deteriorating health, traveled to a temple in the city of Goyang, Gyeonggi province after hearing that there was a “miraculous” Buddhist priestess there. Upon meeting the priestess told Lee, “This is a medicine that I have made, if you drink it your ailments will all be made better,” and passed her a paper cup. The woman forked over W500,000 (US$1=W961) and drank the elixir. Afterwards Lee contracted food poisoning as well as a skin disease which sent her to the hospital. Later she learned that the “special potion” was in fact the water that had stagnated under a dead body.