World Cup Interrupts My Blogging
With Team USA’s up-and-down matches, going into large city squares to watch the Republic of Korea matches and my good friend Peter visiting from Shanghai, I have been pretty tired lately to say the least.
Too tired, in fact, to update blog as much as I want. For the 2-0 Korea – Greece match I went into Seoul City Hall with about 100,000 other people to watch.
For the absurdly late USA-England anger-inducing match I went to a bar in Itaewon in Seoul. For Korea-Argentina, I went to Munhak Stadium in Incheon with 40,000 supporters.
And last night I went into Arts Center, the hangout place in Incheon, to watch USA beat Algeria with a group of rowdy American friends. It doesn’t help that the matches start really late out here. 8:30 pm, 11 pm and 3:30 am for matches over the last few weeks. Ughh…
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John P. Gamboa
John is a Technical Success Manager at WP Engine. Before moving to Austin, John lived in South Korea and China for the better part of four years. His life as an amateur Chinese web censorship expert, traveler, map nerd and beer geek can be found on this site.
