Catch Up: Regret of the Year
My biggest regret of this year has to be my failure to make the most of the quarterly Hi Seoul Festivals (website on the blink right now?).
I completely missed the Spring one (I forgot). The Summer one offered a rather entertaining programme, to which I took the wife and kids but which was pretty much rained off the day we went. The Autumn one I was away for and I'm not sure what the dates will be for the Winter one.
Anyway, here's a rundown of the Summer one to entice you to attend next year. The first event was the Inaugural Han River Birdman Contest (offering $100,000 to anyone managing to cross the Han River). I actually umm'd and ahh'd with some colleagues for a couple of weeks about whether to enter or not (we figured it might be relatively easy to win a prize in the first one) until we finally missed the deadline.
Hope this guy wasn't pinning his hopes on the $100k for sending his kids to college as he pretty much dropped like a stone from there...
The evening included a JCV ballet with characters such as this...
and the other evening event was some kind of aerial ballet/acrobatic concert which was pretty much abandoned as it was too dangerous for the musicians to be playing electronic instruments while suspended 20 feet in the air in a thunder storm...
the first few minutes looked great though...
I'd advise you to bookmark the website (if it ever starts working again) and check out the wide range of events they have on each quarter.

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