Saturday, 24 May 2008

District 3600 conference, shopping, and Korean soccer game

I'll try to show some Rotary-related aspects of our trip, and maybe complement what Davesinkorea is doing.

Rotary District 3600 Conference
Andrea with GSE Chair Jang Kee-Yoon and Governor of District 3600, Oh Hea-Kon
District 3600 Conference Dinner. Western-style food, seating and utensils
Traditional Korean dancer at District Conference dinner. Notice the size of the banner.

My homestay breakfast Friday morning. Each day was a similar number of dishes, but many were different. Eggs, rice, soup, tofu, fish, roots, fish, seaweed. Delicious. My host mother is a great cook. Home-made yogurt.


Lazer light show at district conference. The drummers are on DavesinKorea blog. They were really, really impressive.


District 3600 Conference audience. It took place in the new Seongnam Arts Center's Opera House, which seats 4000 and it was pretty full, both orchestra and balconies. Afterwards, we went to an art exhibition on the lower level of the Arts Center.

District 3600 Secretary Ma Sun Sik as Master of Ceremonies of the District Conference. They used three projection screens and a variety of visual and sound effects.
Announcements of major gifts included an individual who had donated $1.2 and a club that had raised $800,000.



Below: Another version of the trip to the Harley Davidson shop. Timothy was busy choosing his purchases. Sarah, David and Melissa tried on alternate "looks."

Soccer fans at Gyeonggi Suwon World Cup Soccer Stadium Saturday evenin. Suwon beat Pohang 1-0. One of the cheers was to the tune of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer." One of the banners (brown and blue in the lower section) has an image of Che Guevara. I asked, but no one knew why.


1 comment:

Gary Duggan said...

wow, looks like their District Conference is a little larger and better attended than ours. Perhaps next year we can draw more folks in with a laser light show!
Great seeing the Rotary side of things too Andrea, thanks. Gary