Gwangju FC Soccer

      On Saturday TL and I met up with Jonathan to go and watch the local professional soccer team play.  Now the team is called Gwangju FC, and it's their first year in the K-League, Korean Soccer League, and they're not at the top of the division but it's fun to watch and hang out.  We met up with TESL Korea, which prints the foreigner magazine here in Gwangju, and I also met the guy who got me my ESL job here, Dan Henrickson.

       Even though it was pouring rain the entire day we had a great time since you can bring coolers, yes coolers, into the stadium without being checked or paying an extra fee.  I'll go through the pictures and show you how it went.

Everyone sat on one side of the stadium because the rain kept most people from coming to watch the game.

Supporting the team!

That little kid wanted my scarf so bad and he kept yelling at the ref all game long.

Dan and I were definitely on the right page.

The FC supporters lit the flare..

And then they burned their sign.  Amateurs.

Our fellow Southerner we met at the game by way of Baton Rouge.

After missing some easy chances we finally got the first goal!

Everyone was pumped but our section was just a little bit louder than the rest of the stadium.

I tried to get a picture showing the rain but trust me it was a downpour.

He was finally escorted out for being so loud and obnoxious.

TL zoomed in to show the guy proposing and she said yes!

Korean cheerleaders without rain gear and it wasn't cute.

Goal number two!

Because TL was one of the three blonds in the stadium we got on the jumbotron!

One Korean family dared sit next to the foreigners and who was the polite liaison, this guy. Well done sir.

Ok ok I'll stop yelling in English at the Korean ref but he deserved it.

First time in my life I went to a sports game and didn't hear a rap song.

Many thanks to Brooke and Darrell for setting the event up!

We waited 45 minutes for a taxi after the game in the horrendous downpour. TL wasn't digging it.