If you notice in the image above, the sign says "Shouting Korea." I didn't really think this was a clever motto for the World Cup audience here in S. Korea. I mean really, I was thinking, a group of some ad people sat around for days racking their brains for the perfect motto to express Korea's 2010 World Cup audience fervor and all they come up with is 'Shouting Korea.'
Well, the motto is befitting. We needn't watch the game to know that S. Korea scored a goal...perhaps we need to just open a window. (In reality a closed window doesn't change a thing)
Seoul is a beehive of humans. People everywhere. Apartments swarm the landscape and are built at least 10 stories high. The warm nights open the windows of all these rooms where everyone...everyone....is watching the game while eating fired chicken, bar snacks and grilled fish. Now imagine hundreds of these windows, dozens of restaurants and the passing taxi all shouting at the same time as your walking home from a late night at work. Then you know...we scored one.
Maybe those ad guys know what they're talking about.
Update: We had the awesome opportunity to watch Korea's last World Cup match on a "jumbo screen" outside our apt. (literally right underneath our room). One of our 'wayguk' (white people) friends here had an ambitious idea to set a projector up so we could all watch the game together. We had a great time.
Which made the loss all the more heartbreaking....oh 내가 슬픈지!!!!!
