I hate getting scooped by the radio station. Via Michael Simning and the "City of Light" program on GFN comes news of a huge concert tomorrow night in Gwangju to celebrate the winning bid for the 2015 Summer Universiade, also known as the World University Games. Because I spent a little time writing up the 2003 Games in Daegu and the North Korean cheerleaders, and poked a little fun last year at Gwangju, its losing bid, and it's crying citizens, I wanted to devote at least an equal amount of space to the city's celebrations. However, the news broke the same day as President Roh's suicide, and I assume the celebration planned for City Hall late on the 23rd had a different tone than expected. There has been little coverage of the announcement, so far as I can tell, though I'm sure I'll have plenty of material to work with after this concert.
It will run tomorrow night from 8:00 to 9:30
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What? They moved the location again? This seems well orginised...
I dunno, I heard on GFN yesterday that it was downtown. I checked the newspaper yesterday afternoon and it said downtown as well. I looked on the Gwangju site and it said World Cup Stadium (5.18 Plaza changed), though I didn't understand whether that meant changed from downtown to the stadium, or from the stadium to downtown. Mike said it'll be at the stadium. I haven't decided yet if I'm going, but I doubt it. There are, like, ten acts, and spread over an hour-and-a-half, I don't think I want to travel 90 minutes each way to hear people lip-sync for 8 minutes over screaming middle schoolers. But, we'll see.
The F1/world supercar show is a lot better than that Hallyu concert. Hwang Mi Hee is so gorgeous, and of course the cars.
arvinsign brings up an interesting point.
I was going to go just for the heck of it if it was downtown since it should be quite a show...the audience I mean, not the performers but not sure if I can bother to go out to the stadium. Plus I'm a little shocked that Rain doesnt have anything better to do than to come to Gwangju on a Wednesday evening and sing for like 8 min. And on that note, what were they thinking having it on a Wednesday evening during the midterm period for most of their fans? None of my students today had heard about it and they all said they wouldnt be going because they had to study. Same at the hubby's school.
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