Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

You mean to say that going to a Korean Festival is not on your bucket list? Then my bucket list (if I had one) definitely kicks your bucket list’s ass.
The best thing about going to a Korean Festival is a lot of Koreans, they are nice and friendly people who don’t mind a freeloader who showed up as a friend of a friend of a guest.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival
Any self-respecting Korean Festival starts off by singing Korean National Anthem followed the US National Anthem.

Korean War Veterans get a lot of respect at the event.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival
You’d think that reading Korean is hard…

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

…but you’d be wrong, I immediately knew what the 3rd prize was.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Another great thing about Korean Festivals is a combination of soccer, tennis and volleyball they play there.
Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival
For the entertainment Koreans enjoy making fun of the non-Koreans pretending to do martial arts.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

I thought something was strange when whatever the martial arts people were screaming sounded a lot like “Jesus First” but then they proceeded to create cross formation and re-enact the Passion of the Christ.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

This is the part after they crucified their instructor a.k.a. Jesus…

…so he can return from the dead.

Of course no one leaves hungry.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival
To recap: nice people, a show about Jesus and martial arts, good food and lots and lots of soap.

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival

Now on to the next item on my list….

Checked Off My Bucket List: Visit A Korean Festival
  • midtown miscreant

    Jesus H Cho, that was one strange festival. Whats up with all the soap?

  • http://donna-justme.blogspot.com Donna W

    Well now, that was interesting (and surprising). Something tells me you are making up your bucket list as you go along.

  • http://jjsinkck.blogspot.com jjskck

    I take it you didn’t win 3rd prize.

  • http://kcmeesha.com m.v.

    No I didn’t. But they had laptops,trips to S.Korea, and whole bunch of nice prizes. I didn’t stay long enough. I think that the soap was part of the prize selection.

  • http://nuke718.livejournal.com/ Nuke

    Nice report man. And the food, gah I am so hungry for Korean after looking at that. Parents here this weekend and their Asian food preferences don’t stray far from Sweet-n-sour Chicken and Crab Rangoon (translation no way are they trying kimchi).

  • http://plasticsax.com Happy

    Stupendous.

  • Korean Person

    Wait a minute, wait an ever-loving minute.

    There was a Korean festival? With a big table of Korean food? Why didn’t I know about this?

  • http://kcmeesha.com m.v.

    You are on a Korean s-list? :-)
    It was in St.Louis

    • Korean Person

      Aw man, they have Trader Joe’s AND a Korean festival?

      I’m moving.

      BTW, the best part of not just a Korean Festival but indeed of ANY town is the Koreans.

      How was the food?

  • http://kcmeesha.com m.v.

    I tried almost everything, not sure what I ate so I concentrated on the beef. Can’t go wrong with that

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  • Ojs

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