Mainly sold in PET bottles

 Our representative soft drinks are not that old. In the past, cold water floating in a gourd with a weeping willow tree was popular, but recently, it has been manufactured and produced in large-scale manufacturing facilities, leading to the emergence of health drinks, functional drinks, and even recently, bottled water.

The story of Kim Seon-dal, who sold the water of the Daedong River, has become a reality.

Bottled water is mostly underground bedrock, but in some cases, deep water from the sea is extracted, purified with RO, sterilized with ultraviolet rays, and filled into PET containers, and is managed by the Drinking Spring Water Act.

Our country has relatively deep bedrock aquifers and abundant groundwater, so this type of bottled water has developed a lot. Compared to Europe, where limestone is abundant and people cannot drink it as is, we can say that we are blessed.

However, we can no longer say that we are a country with abundant water resources because we are excessively extracting groundwater. As water resources are gradually depleting, it is time to prepare for the climate crisis.

However, although our country is said to be a country lacking water, this can be said to be the result of exaggerated propaganda.

The first beverage was cider, but its meaning is slightly different from that of the United States. In our country, cider means carbonated gas with sugar.

When it comes to health drinks, Bacchus is a must. When we were young and not well off, we always had a boiled egg and a bottle of cider when we went on a picnic. This is carbonated water in a bottle, unlike today's canned type.

In recent years, the shape of containers has become very diverse. Even for beverages, there were bottles, PP, PET, pouches, and aluminum cans, so each had a different purpose and use, but among them, PET (Poly Etylene Telethalef) is by far the most unique development. There have been concerns about the release of hazardous substances (PCBs), but PET, a material used for food packaging, is not considered to be a cause for concern since food companies receive and keep test results from manufacturers every six months.