Korea vs. France

So Korea is out of the World Cup. A draw with France set the stage and their loss to Switzerland sealed the deal. One of the goals by Switzerland was (apparently) scored offside, but they ended up losing 2 - 0 so it doesn't really matter. There's a great deal of discussion as to how the CEO (or whatever) of FIFA is Swiss, causing the officiating to become somewhat less than objective. Ah well, it's over now.

We went to watch the Korea vs. France game. We went to Chonnam University again with some friends and arrived at 1:30 AM in order to secure seats on the road for the 4:00 AM start. It was packed, though not as busy as for Korea vs. Togo.

They gave out sparklers for everyone to light at the opening kickoff. It was pretty neat but kinda creepy with all the sparks flying everywhere. We were sitting in a parking lot with a big screen set up and a projector showing the game. We were actually watching everything in reverse as we were sitting behind the screen.

People were sitting anywhere they could to see the screen. I'm not sure what this building is, but it was in the parking lot right beside where we were sitting. More and more people kept going up on the roof all night.

This is on top of a "That'll be $5, please" booth.

Us with our friends. If you go to a Korean soccer game, you have to wear red. Korea is called the Red Devils, which comes from a soccer game in Mexico (I guess) where Korea ran so fast that people said that they looked like red ghosts. The word "ghost" got changed and the Red Devils came to be.