Korea continues to adopt Western ways. After a 2-1 victory over Togo, people took to the streets and began to RIOT.
Here we see a drunk bastard standing on top of a Hyundai Sonata (previous model). It has a newly caved-in roof, de-domed hood, crushed trunk, broken windshield, and at least one battered quarterpanel. How all this started I don't know, but the car was going down a side street next to my busy subway station where many people where returning. I guess one drunk bastard got excited, inspired Korean mob mentality, and the next thing I knew I was looking out the window at several people standing on top of that car with dozens crowded around making a lot of noise.
The car eventually worked it way out the the main street where you see it here, the occupants having exited and now watching their insurance premiums rise. After the poilce showed up and dispersed the crowd (and nothing else), the owners drove the car off to the side of the road and called a tow truck.
Should be interesting tomorrow to see in the news what else happened. I'm thinking there will be more reports of hooliganism because Korea's gone absolutely ape shit over the World Cup; it's as important here as it is unimportant in America.
It's past 2am here and car horns are still blaring in rhythm to chants of "????????? ("dae-han-min-gewk"), which is what South Korea calls itself. That said, it's almost less annoying than the hordes of morons proud citizens who chant "U.S.A." over and over and over and over...
I'm betting there is no coverage of this typw of stuff. Too much cognitive dissonance for the locals vis-a-vis the (derservedly) laudatory comments that Korean crods, both here and in LA, got for good behavious last time around. Now that the hooliganism has begun, though, there will be stopping it, so maybe this stuff will start to get some attention in the media before long.
That is FUCKING awesome! I was watching some footage on CNN yesterday and they were showing thousnads gathering around Seoul to watch the game in open squares and I thought it was awesome that so many people would be out to watch.
Anytime you've got some larger gathering like that though, there's always reprocussions and you do get the negative affects of it at times. I just wish we had some sort of interest that was near passionate for this in the U.S.
AWESOME..love it love! I wish fans in my country were like that. Yes the occasional riot or stupid fight will happen but gotta love the fan pride!
Yeah I read this incident in naver news.
Well, I'm just amazed there are only a few reported incidents like this (actually only this one as far as I know) when there are literally thousands and thousands of people gathering on the streets. Proportion wise, I think it's very small. and no, Korean media is not trying to hide these facts but rather eager to criticize people for it. There were other news blaming some people for not clearing the rubbish when they leave.
What absolutely stupid and obnoxious behavior, and all for what? Some absurd game involving a ball!!!! Like it fucking matters!!!! These jerks need to get a life and leave other people (like those driving the vehicle) alone...This is one of the MANY reasons I absoluteky despise sports activities; they bring out the worst in so many humans...
And Binkley's points with Mom go down 10 fold. ;)
what an asshole