Dae-hamin-gu!

The game against Togo was a blast! All of us were decked out in red and Jake and I both wore viking hats colored red in support of the red devils. It went over really well and we spent the entire night cheering and screaming for Korea. Filing out of the stadium after the 2-1 victory, we were mobbed by people singing and cheering. We posed for at least a dozen photographs with complete strangers and everyone thanked us for supporting Korea. Pictures below:

Probably about 20,000 people showed up at the stadium to watch the game. Most of them in the stands. But as the stands filled up people started to run onto the field for better seats. The 100 or so police officers there could do little to stop them. When they turned off the TV's showing the game, though, everyone hopped up and ran back off the field.

Us outside of the stadium, posing for one of many pictures with random fans.

Not my best picture but it makes me laugh everytime I see it. I blinked during what I'm sure was a loud pro-Korean cheer; I wasn't drunk, I swear.

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I wrote this post a week ago and I've been trying to add pictures to it since. The three above were the only ones I could get to work... In the meantime, Korea tied France in their second game making it very possible to move onto round two.

Unfortunately, France beat Togo on Saturday and Korea couldn't get anything going against Switzerland and we lost 2-0 bumping us out of the tournament. We stayed up all night Saturday morning and were with a hundred other fans in a bar watching the game and cheering on Korea. Like I said, Korea could do nothing offensively in their game and a horrible offsides call that lead to a Swiss' second goal didn't help either. So now Korea's done and with the Americans and the Czechs getting pushed out, I'm left to cheer for...someone else. Too bad Korea got knocked out, I was just mastering most of the chants.