Dr. Cho coming in had a great impact on me, and I learned a lot from his presentation. I learned about how sports were integrated in to the Korean culture, which seems to be similar to the the US.
One thing that i found funny and interesting was when he said that the teenage kids there are the same as they are here. He said that they go off drinking and are rambunctious like most teenage kids here. After that, he was talking about how they don't take football that serious in Korea, unlike here in the states.
Another thing that I found interesting was when Dr. Cho told us about street cheering. Street cheering is like a family friendly version of England's soccer hooligans. Thousands, maybe even millions would gather in the streets and watch the FIFA World Cup games in what seemed to be like a Time Square.
The last big thing that I found interesting about Dr. Cho's presentation was when he talked about glocalization leading to globalization. Because Korea had a good team in the World Cup, more people became interested in the sport, which helped to lead to globalize Korea.
I am glad that Dr. Cho's presentation had such a strong impact on you. Many people mentioned how impressed they were by the street cheering that Dr. Cho showed in the video. You brought up something that no one else did in making the comparison to Times Square. That is the only other place in the U.S. that I can think of where such a large crowd congregates. I found a link to the New Year's Eve page (http://timessquarenyc.org/nye/nye.html) and it estimates about a million people go to Times Square on New Year's Eve.
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