Fireworks Festival

This past weekend I went to the Fireworks festival at Gwangali beach. It had been played up in my mind for weeks. I had numerous stories from fellow expats and teachers alike. It was a phantasmagoric, though very crowded, spectacle. I'd heard that it would be impossible to escape before 1 am because of the congestion due to attendance. Regardless, I still went. The venerable Mr. Hahm was out front again, he invited us to enjoy the performance in the apartment of one of his friends.

We had a few hours to kill before meeting up with Hahmalammading-dong and walked around on the beach. This photo was at around 5:30 and the show started in at 8:00. It was incredibly crowded. Remember that behind me is the same scene that you see in front of me.


They had a pre-show that had a few singing groups and these performance chefs. There show was like STOMP, but with knives and a tasty end-result.
This was the stage of the performance. All the fireworks were launched off of floating barges or shot from the bridge. It was choreographed by a company from Shanghai.

This is a shot of the crowd below the apartment building that we were in.

Here's a wide shot of the beach and a video of the crowd. Things don't seem very clear in the video though.


Here's us in the apartment enjoying a little snack before the show started. Mr. Hahm is to the left, next to Danny, Tane, and Rie. Everyone else is a friend or member of the photography club.

Now, what follows is several photos of the event and videos of the experience. It was an hour long show and I got most of it. I was going to post several videos but it takes around 20 minutes for each video and I don't want to waste that time. Here's part of the finale and maybe I'll put up the others if I get time. I couldn't get the last one up, it was too big and powerful for the computer to handle.



I have more stuff that I'll try to get up later. Enjoy for now. You can always check out facebook for pictures as well. Excluding you mom.