Gwangju FC Home Opener

      Saturday marked the Gwangju Football Club's home game opener at World Cup Stadium in Gwangju. Although a little tired from my birthday celebrations the night before and despite freakishly cold weather (you wouldn't believe it is March here!), we managed to make it for opening kick off and watch the whole match. As we are foreigners, and well at the risk of sounding pretentious, foreigners get a lot of perks if you know the right people, a group of 6 of us were given free tickets to watch the match. Now the best thing about watching a Gwangju FC game, and this is the same for baseball games as well, is that you are allowed to bring your own food and drinks into the stadium. So not only are tickets cheap, even sometimes free, but you aren't forced to pay and arm and a leg for food and drinks (say goodbye to 8$ beers).
   Conveniently enough, the Gwangju World Cup Stadium is attached a huge department store called Lotte Mart. As such, we headed there before kick off and grabbed two extremely large pizzas and several beers at a mere 10 bucks per person. After stocking up, we went into the stadium to enjoy the match. Although the quality of the soccer itself is perhaps a little underwhelming, it is a pretty good way to spend a Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood. 

Cheerleaders!