May 24-26, 2011
Every Spring semester most universities around Korea hold a school spring festival. From what I have heard they mostly last 3 days and the school will shell out big bucks to invite famous Korean singers/groups to come and perform during the festival.
There are also performances from clubs from the school and talent contests that involve singing or dancing. During the day different majors set up booths around the school selling snacks or other things to try and raise money for their major. At night some of the majors will run a small bar like tent where they sell some food and alcohol.
This year the festival was called "Like A G6" and they sold t-shirts for 500-1000 won, which is 50cents - $1.
Yu & Akiko started decorating people's t-shirts and this one is for Olliver.
During this time the campus looks super busy and many people are walking around. The bigger universities will most likely get a lot of people who are not even from their school attending their festivals, especially if their guest stars are someone super famous that many people want to see.
The people above wearing red are selling pineapples (cut up on sticks) to raise money for their major.
The first night we had DJ DOC come and perform. They were great! I had a heard a lot of songs from them and didn't even realize it was them. Their stuff is really upbeat and they performed for a good hour, maybe even more.
I didn't actually get a chance to walk around on the first day through the stands so I did that on the second day. I purchased a few snack items Banana and Chocolate plus a pineapple because one of my suite mates was selling them for her major. They were delicious and were only $1. Can't go wrong with that.
The 2nd night Kristen and I also tried eating at one of the restaurants that are set up on the side of the road by an ajumma. During festival times other street vendors also line our streets with tents to sell street food and such to the students that are running around, most likely hungry.
On the 3rd night there was a singing competition on the main stage. It was kind of funny to observe because when someone was popular or talented students would rush towards the stage, but if they didn't find them appealing they would leave so the crowd size was always fluctuating.
Supreme Team performed at our school at the last night and they were the most popular group. When they arrived every started rushing towards the stage...I decided not to join the crowd this time around.
I tried to get a picture of a bunch of Korean students dressed up in animal pajamas swaying to the music but I was too far for that unfortunately and only for that blurry mess. Here is my friend Patty modelling one for us! Aren't they cute?!?!
Lastly even thought this was one day after the festival a b boy group just randomly started performing in front of the Unitopia building!!! They were really good I highly enjoyed their performance (or what I caught of it).
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