The madness of the beautiful game

As you all well know the World Cup has begun (I'm writing this in the one hour break between the Australia/Japan game and USA/Czech Rep.) and Korea is into it. As most of my audience is Canadian, I'll put it in Canuck terms; think of Olympic hockey... and multiply by ten. Every game is on at least three tv channels here, I'm not normally allowed to where jeans to work, but am allowed to if I wear a red(the team colour) t-shirt supporting Korea, even my kindergarten kids know what's going on. Not to mention walking into any store and seeing more red than Moscow circa May 1 1946. The level of passion in the average person for soccer here is unbelievable... and Korea hasn't even taken the pitch yet! Names like Park Ji-sung and Lee-young Pyo seen to appear in every other sentence on the street. Stadiums built for the last world cup are sold out; simply to watch the games on big screens. I can't wait to see how nuts this country goes when the Reds play Togo tomorrow night...