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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
Depending on when sake was introduced to Korea, this brand may have had something to do with it.
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Sake was introduced during 1910, AKA the annexation year.
This is likely the etymology of this word, in
on-yomi (seishou) of course.
I don't know very much about the alcohol production during the Japanese colonialism. But it's strange to see
two kinds of beverages during that time that are/were very much same but policy-wise they were too different to each other during the colonial era:
1. jeongjong (正宗 in Sino-Korean; Japanese equivalent of
nihonshu;
sake in the West)
2. cheongju (清酒 in Sino-Korean; almost exactly like nihonshu/sake with subtle differences)