Maybe I'm a Soccer Fan

I have the rest of the week off for the Lunar New Year holiday. Tonight Jo, Kay, and I went to the Korea-Turkmenistan World Cup Preliminary (Soccer) Game. I don't know that I've ever actually enjoyed a sports event before, but this was a lot of fun, mostly because Jo cheered with incredible passion. Korea won, 4-0. We're talking about going to the South Korea-North Korea game in March. I think I might be a soccer fan.

Outside the stadium before the gameThe teams enter the stadiumPark Ji-sung, Korea's favorite soccer playerThe Korean team celebrating the first goal of the gameCold Korean soccer fansFirst thing in the morning I'm off to Gyeongju, the ancient capital of the Silla dynasty, about 4.5 hours southeast of Seoul. I'm a little nervous about traveling within the country at this time because most Koreans return to their hometowns for the holiday, creating massive traffic jams throughout the country. Nothing like what's going on in China right now but still not a lot of fun. Train tickets were all sold out, so I'm going by bus. Hopefully I'll be back Saturday evening, having soaked in my fill of old Korean history and culture. More later.