Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Korea-France, time to go to work for supporters

Time to go home, it is 6am after all. Some Korean compagnies gave a day off to there employees to watch the match. In a country where you hardly get more than 5 days vacation per year, it is some kind of national day.
Korea goals against France

Ok this is it, Korea goals against France. That means we gonna spend a terrible week at work: "How are you today? not so good I guess, you must be very disapointed...". For the rest I do not care so much, actually it was funny to see the korean supporters. I am sure you noticed that Korean supporters have a very high motivation and involvment for this world cup. Do not believe they understand so mutch about the game though: when one Korean player got a yellow warning I saw Korean girl screaming happily until her friend explained her that it was not actually a good thing to get when you are playing football. I guess she thought it was some kind or reward for the perfect Taekwondo kick he just executed on the french player.

A few pictures from Morning Calm country

3:45 am
Waiting for the game to start.
Some are already sleeping...
During the second part of the game, France leads 1 to 0, so it is not as happy as before...
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France-Korea from City Hall in Seoul

Just before 4am in Seoul, we went to the City Hall to watch the match. The place was full of course and this is the closer we could get to one of the screen. Last week 300000 people gathered to watch the game against Togo. Now again it is full, even if it was very early in the morning (or late in the night for people who've been waiting since 3pm on Sunday afternoon).

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Ballon rond piege a con

Il est 19h en Coree, le match qui va opposer la Coree au Togo commence dans 3h. Et ils sont environ 50000 dans le world cup stadium a attendre le debut du match.
Au moins on peut pas dire qu'ils ont des tendances declinistes les Coreens, ceci dit le triomphalisme a ce stade ca fait un peu peur...

Friday, June 09, 2006

Pendant ce temps, dans une clean room

An engineer is spending a boring afternoon in a clean room

Shanghai Reloaded

The old Shanghai now is being quickly replaced by brand new towers. Posted by Picasa

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Visiting old Shanghai

There is a Starbucks Coffee hidding in this picture. Posted by Picasa