Wednesday, March 18, 2009

St. Patrick's Day Parade, Seoul Style

We awoke last Saturday (March 14th) and found out about a St. Patrick's Day Parade in Seoul. Well, of all things, we had to check it out. We headed down to the location where it would be. The subway ride there took about 45 minutes.

Speaking of the subway (Seoul Metro), this thing is enormous. Here is an example of how long a typical subway train is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uCez9voDdM&feature=channel_page

We arrived at the location and found a mass of people wearing green. We waited around and waited around, curious as to where this "parade" was going to be. A green priest and bag pipe player walked past us, followed by a giant Guinness balloon.




We began to follow. After about 200 yards, we realized, we, the crowd, were the parade. We walked up and down small streets in this neighborhood eventually looping back to the main stage in the park where we started at. And so concluded the St. Patrick's Day Parade.


3 comments:

Truth said...

What a fun parade! Did they release a bunch of balloons at some point? I remember seeing a ton of those green balloons bundled up in other pics.

Anonymous said...

That train is like winter in Alaska, nine months long! Wouldn't it just be easier to have an underground moving sidewalk?

Anonymous said...

...Where's your green clothes?