Saturday woke up grey and rainy. Perfect weather for staying inside and having a Glee or Battlestar Galactica marathon, but I had other plans. You see, Saturday was The Day. The day I had been waiting for for several months - MIKA was playing a concert in Seoul. So a friend of mine grabbed our umbrellas and headed for Olympic Park, the centerpiece of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games and what I am sure is a lovely place to walk around when the weather's not quite so crappy.
You can see it was raining. A lot.
But that did not deter hoards of Mika fans from showing up and going crazy!
Except, of course for the people in my section, who seemed to have taken an entire bottle of Ambien EACH before the concert. Everyone else was up on their feet except for them. My friend and I were not just the only two foreigners in the section, but we were also the only two up on our feet for the entire show.
This is the giant cankle that rose from the crowd during the performance of Big Girls (You Are Beautiful).And now some performance shots:
Final bows after the encore (Grace Kelly):
And now for the World Cup! Korea vs Greece - and Korea ran ALL OVER Greece. Great times.
Here we are, decked out in our Reds gear. We were one of only a handful of weigooks to stay for the game afterwords
A bit smaller crowd for the game, but it sounded about 10 times louder. ESPECIALLY when Park Jisung scored the goal to put Korea up 2-0. It was like the second coming
And here is a terrible shot of the jumbo screens we watched the game on. All in all, a great experience.
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