Sorry for the delay, my computer crash held me up. But back up and running again!
April 1st I went with several people to go watch the World Cup qualifying match between North Korea and South Korea at World Cup Stadium in Seoul. Earlier in the day I was able to buy a jersey to wear to the game. There was a large group of us, maybe 60 or so from the international house headed to the game. The subway was packed for people headed to the game. At one point on the subway my cell phone was ringing in my pocket but I couldn’t answer it because I couldn’t move at all.
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Phong and I with our jerseys. Phong has the white away jersey and I have the red home jersey.
part of our group at the game
We were able to sneak a bunch of bear and soju into the stadium. It just took a simple sneaky bag pass over the fence. We had over seven liters of beer for the four of us. We had finished it all by half time.
The game was pretty good. I imagined that North Korea (DPRK) would have bussed some supporters down, but it didn’t appear as though there were any North Korean’s at the game. I took some video of the game, it was interesting to see that during DPRK’s national anthem they don’t place their hand on their heart whereas the South Korean’s do.
North Korea in white, South Korea in red.
The game was a tie of zero to zero until the last three minutes of the game. South Korea scored a goal and the end of the game was 1-0. We then headed to a bar to go celebrate!
sporting the flag at the bar!
Check out this video from the game. Here you’ll see a bit of the opening, the DPRK national anthem, the ROK national anthem, and finally the goal that won the game!
North Korea vs. South Korea World Cup 2009 from Josh Dill on Vimeo.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am
yo, looks like a load of fun…how do i go about getting tickets for the next world cup qualifying game vs. UAE?
cheers.