Swimming Fail
For all 5 of you that are currently watching the Swimming World Championships in Rome, here is a treat from Roboseyo’s blog. It’s a link to a video of Korean swimmer Park Taehwan’s gold medal performance in Beijing, with the benefit of a questionably accurate English translation. Funny stuff.
I haven’t been paying attention to them, but for kicks today I asked a Korean student how Park Taehwan was doing. Answer? “He failed. The German beat him.”
That seems a bit harsh, but nonetheless it limits Korean gloating and chants of Daehanminguk, so I declare it to be a good thing. I can’t decide whether USA, USA, USA! or Daehanminguk, clap clap clap clap clap is more annoying.. Thoughts on which is the more irritating cheer?
Continuing on with the sports theme, my next post will delve into the anatomical mystery surrounding why exactly Black people jump so high. (The real answer you won’t find from a shady source like an encyclopedia, but as told by a Korean student, may surprise you)
On that note, I don’t know what’s worse: that Koreans care so much about how their national teams and athletes do in international competitions, or that Americans care so little.