Fun fact about Korea!
Korea was actually not part of any of the Opium Wars; both the First War (1839β1842) and Second War (1856β1860), but was still affected by it all the same.
During the time when both Opium Wars were going on, Korea was actually under strict isolationism and national seclusion by their current kingdom/government. Because of this extreme isolationism, Korea had managed to safely bypass much of the conflicts.
When the Korean government began to watch China's struggles with the opium trade and the devastating impacts of addiction following suite, Joseon rulers enacted a ban, strictly outlawing opium, classifying it as a dangerous, punishable contraband long before it ever began starting officially opening its borders to the outside world.
However, upon China's defeat in the Opium Wars, the rule of the Qing dynasty was drastically weakened. This loss of Chinese power had allowed for Korea to eventually assert its own independence (though it soon fell under Japanese control).
Though Korea avoided the British-driven opium trade in the 1800s, it later faced a different narcotics crisis under Japanese rule. By the 1930s, the Japanese Government-General heavily promoted poppy cultivation in Korea, operating factories to produce and export morphine and heroin across the region.
Korea produced a small amount of opium during the earlier years of the colonial period, but by the 1930s, Korea had become a major exporter of both opium and narcotics, becoming a significant supplier to the illicit drug trade, specifically to the opium monopoly created by the Japanese-sponsored Manchukuo government.
The sale and consumption of drugs were considered pervasive in Korea, where the country faced a substantial domestic drug abuse problem, appearing in the form of opium-smoking and morphine addiction.
It is because of this history, that today South Korea maintains its status as having some of the strictest anti-narcotics laws in the world, treating the historical legacy of the 19th and 20th-century drug trade as a crucial lesson for modern societal health.
Now be that as it may, the Underworld does not follow the same rules and over time various narcotics have long since been cultivated from the various plants scattered throughout, from various pipe-smokes, to more recognizable tinctures.
At some point in time, being one very proficient in tranquilizers and pain meds, Moonassi had eventually come up with what was hell's version of laudanum; with him originally having his own variant when he was back down in the underworld.
Often produced similarly much like how old-style laudanum once was, hence the name of some of his more popular combo's; Laudan; it consisted sometimes normally of 10% powdered (whatever the fuck he decided at the time but what was basically the equivalent of 1% morphine) by weight mixed with often high-proof Alcohol, though his most popular was usually bottled Rice Wine or something similar like Liquor.
Originally created as a way to get demons to take certain concoctions without having to hear consistent complaints about the taste, Moon's Mixtures became popular for its sedative effects and it wasn't long before Demons had actually begun taking it to help with the voices and nightmares. It was noted, upon consumption, that while it never silenced them, Moon's concoction had actually made the one whose drank it feel so relaxed and steady that anything Gwi-Ma said apparently didnβt matter for a certain point, which thus had made it popular, especially for it's varying degree's of potency.
Even Jinu had begun taking it at some pointβ¦
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