Or else. More news and pictures available via a Naver search; here's a video report of delighted citizens from Yonhap.
The World Photonics Expo (광주세계광엑스포) will run from April 2nd through May 9th at Sangmu Citizens' Park (상무시민공원), a little behind the Kim Dae-Jung Convention Center. It will include an F-16 simulator and a Falcon View simulator, among other aviation-themed exhibits.
One neat thing about last year's aborted expo was this advertisement, kept around this year, too:
It's the Chinese character 光, meaning "light," cleverly combined by the red stroke with the Korean word "빛," also meaning "light." That's the same 光, pronounced 광, in Gwangju.
5 comments:
what does "light" have to do with air force?
i like the post though..."light" in Chinese and Korean.
Always great to have a military presence in the streets of Gwangju -- I'm sure most people have forgotten 1980. I've noticed that Asian countries seem to have an unhealthy obsession with Expos -- here in the Shanghai area, they're going bananas over the World Expo and Gwangju has the phonetics expo? What does one do at a phonetics expo? I'm guessing they pronounce things and sell funnel cakes.
I'm sure you've read on here that Yeosu's getting the Expo in 2012 after Shanghai. They complain about the expo not getting enough publicity; problem is, none of the articles or pamphlets actually say what the expo does.
So the world Expo is really, "An large gathering of people, doing something as yet undetermined in order to establish the relative superiority of a developing economy." When was the last time the US or Canada had an Expo or World's Fair? I guess Asian countries seem to love the Expo as it gives them an opportunity to build big things as monuments to their prowess. I guess it beats boshintang!
As far as what the Expo does -- it's simple -- it's the Expo! lol
@ Brian Dear
Are you joking or you just misread it? its photonics, not phonetics.
@ Joy
There you have it, it says theres an aviation themed part within the expo itself. Photonics is very vital to Avionics.
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