On Saturday, Seoul hosted an International Fireworks Festival in Yeouido Park (next to the Han River and the 63 Building I visited previously). It was the first festival I've been to in Seoul and it was insane. I went with my coworker. Even though we had heard it was going to be super crowded, I don't think we imagined the extent of it (we never found the other coworker we were supposed to meet up with). My coworker, Daniesha, took a video of us lining up to get on the subway on the way to the park (
check out her video). We were pushed on just like you see the Japanese have to do on their Tokyo subway! There was nowhere to turn or any space, just bodies. I was laughing so hard I started crying. Ridiculously crowded. We actually got pushed off the train a stop too early because we were too close to the doors and too many people behind us wanted to get off. So we followed the mass of people walking to the park.
There were 3 different fireworks shows, 2 different countries went before Korea. Korea was 최고 - the best! Each show was about 20 minutes or so long. AWESOMENESS!
