olympics

I went to Kimbap Nara to eat some cheese donkkaseu (forgot they cover it in the sauce, gross!) and the Olympics were on.  Specifically, men’s short track speed skating.  If Koreans are anything, they are proud and nationalistic, so when the Koreans did well in the first semi-final, everyone in the restaurant was pretty pumped.  Besides me, who was quietly cursing that JR Celski disqualified. 

Then in the second semi-final, Apolo Ohno barely took first and the Korean got third, meaning he didn’t qualify for the finals.  Everyone was fuming.  Turns out, Koreans hate Apolo Ohno because he’s half-Japanese he got gold over a Korean in 2002.  That’s right.  2002.  You never want to piss off the Koreans because they hold mad grudges.