Last weekend, I went up to Seoul to see everyone from lab so that we could watch the Korea-Greece game together. The original plan was to watch at city hall outside, but it was monsooning during the day so we didn’t want to stay out in the rain and freeze our asses off. Instead, we went to a horse track to watch the game since they have big screens and covered seating. We even got to see a few horse races, though I didn’t bet anything since I wasn’t feeling that lucky.
We brought in with us a large bottle of Jack, vodka, and some wine along with bottles of Coke, cranberry juice, and the Sprite equivalent in Korea. It was a lot of alcohol, and we ended up killing it all between about 7 of us. Still sober in this pic while were our "Red Devils" T-shirts:
Pre-game pump up began with a concert by a famous Korean diva, with a bunch of Korean pride and cheering songs, all of which included a series of clapping and dancing and whatnot (Koreans suck at doing the wave in a stadium by the way). Then the game began and ended with Korean’s and us foreigners going nuts when Korea scored against Greece, especially Jisun Park scored. Here's the horse track before the game:
The picture doesn't do the area justice. It was pretty fantastic view, even in the rain. We then left the horse track and went to a bar to have some beer (which is still filthy) and semi-watched the Argentina-Nigeria game while socializing. The night ended for most around 1 or 2AM, but I stayed up and watched the USA-England game which kicked off at 3:30 in the morning, and watched the sun rise.
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