Last weekend JY Books hosted a mandatory Sports Day for all its employees. People traveled as long as three hours for this event. From 9am to 6pm we were required to play volleyball, dodgeball, soccer, kickball and all those fun gym class games I spent most of highschool trying to avoid. We did learn a few interesting things however. For example, on of the fundamental belief systems that Korea was founded upon was Confusionism, a highly male dominated philosophy. Therefore the strategy for every game was ....give the ball to a boy or get out of the way so a boy can do it. This of course was lots of fun for the girls who consequently spent most of the day watching the men play. The Korean women seemed extremely used to this philosophy and interestingly not very athletic at all. Another much cooler thing we learned was how to play Korean dodgeball. In Korean dodgeball each team divides into two parts. One group must dodge the ball and the other group surrounds the opposing side. The result is that those players dodging balls have to watch for balls from all four sides. However, if a man gets hit with a ball he is not out. If a woman gets hit with a ball she is out. It was weriod but kinda fun.
We did get to know the other English teachers and made some good friends!
ps The last picture is the founder of the company Mr. Park. He was extremely intense about sports day!
1 comment:
Sounds like a blasty blast. I wish I had a sports day and got to do that all day... Korean dodgeball makes me think o' the south park episode where they played dodgeball...
Good times. Good times.
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