In the drinking game Apt, each hand in the stack represents a floor in the “apartment building” of hands they’ve symbolically “built”. SEOUL - “Apateu, apateu.” This catchy chant over a bouncy beat has been propelling Blackpink’s Rose and American singer Bruno Mars’ collaboration, Apt.
, to massive global success. For many South Koreans, the tune and its themes feel all too familiar, mirroring a drinking game of the same name that they have nearly grown out of. “Drinking games are kind of over,” said Ms Lee Ji-won, 22, a university student in Seoul.
“People who bring them up seem old fashioned. The days of pressured drinking are fading as everyone’s tolerance for it wears thin,” she added. Drinking game that inspired Apt.
Before diving into the mixed views of Koreans about what is now in Korea considered the somewhat passe drinking game that inspired this massive chart-topper, here’s what this game is and what Korean drinking games in general entail. Korean drinking games, once a staple of college parties, are quite varied. In 2016, local media outlet Money Today noted that while classics like I Am Ground and 007 Bbang once dominated the scene, the list of games had at that point grown so extensive that it became difficult to count.
Apt. is one of the time-worn classics. This is how the Apt.
drinking game is played, according to Rose’s own tutorial on TikTok. turned this apt. into a clurrrrb 🇧🇷” how r my number ones celebrating!!?? A gro.