He also recorded that while it caused rapid drunkenness, people recovered from its hangovers very quickly. Distillation practices were passed on from Arabia to the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty, then to Manchuria and into Korea, according to archived medical texts (Dongui-Bogam and Boncho-Gangmok). Common people could not get the same high quality of drink at this time. However, by the 14th century, they came to know soju (distilled sul).