It was announced at 3:30 am, Korea time, that Kazan, Russia, will host the 2013 Summer Universiade. There are quite a few pictures and news articles up on Naver of both the pre-announcement enthusiasm and the post-announcement dejection. Interesting juxtaposition between this and the other rallies Gwangju's young people have been attending. Conveniently, they got to use some of the same chants.
Crying on camera is something we've seen before, most recently I guess during the aftermath of "Korea's 9/11," and is a topic best covered by Gusts of Popular Feeling, who looked at a similar phenomenon when Pyeongchang lost the bid for the 2014 Olympic Games. I was looking around the Gwangju 2013 site, and came across something I missed when I mentioned the Universiade in an earlier post.
Over 2,000 people were waiting in front of the arrival gate and when the delegates appeared on the red carpet, they shouted "Welcome FISU!" and along the road from the airport to the hotel where the FISU delegates were staying, over 50,000 people were lined up waving their hands to greet them.
Even though the articles on the delegates have the same dates on them, some photos are in daylight while others are at night. I'm guessing some photos got mixed up, but I don't know. Anyway, similar scenes greeted the delegates when they left Gwangju after a five day stay. Here are a few photos of their stay and their departure. I'm shocked that these foreign
No comments:
Post a Comment