Sports Day at Guyeong Elementary School

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Korea is apparently getting lax in providing children with enough physical education. Some schools apparently don't even have Phys. Ed. classes. Now, this is a phenomenon I am not seeing at either of my schools. When I come in to work at Guyeong Elementary on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays there are like two to three Phys. Ed. classes in session on the field outside (in the gym on rainy days) as I walk by. Several of my groups at Anione High have Phys. Ed. before my English class. So, in other words, I ain't seeing it.

May 11th was Sports Day at Guyeong -- several of my friends' Sports Days were the previous week. I generally wake up at 9:15 on the days that I work at Guyeong so I was greeted with what at first sounded to me like a festival on the Taehwa River...

Seeing as I am not a daytime teacher (I start my day at 11am but start teaching at 2pm) I was not invited to participate in the events so I can't really give a play-by-play. However, I can tell you that there is a host the likes of which you would find on Korean variety shows (entertainment, crazy antics, this guy is fun personified, etc.) and that the parents were asked to participate in some of the activities. And there was kpop. Lots and lots of kpop.

The following is not my video, but this is some of what you can expect from a Korean Sports Day. The cheering! The costumes! The crazy! The kpop!

There was much, much, much BIGBANG music, including their latest:

Niiiiiiiiiice :)