This is one crazy country

I just got back from spending the evening with a few hundred thousand close friends. And everyone is STILL fired up about Korea's dramatic come-from-behind win over ... well, Togo. But hey, a win is a win and it's more, unfortunately, than the U.S. could do. I went down to City Hall with a few people from the newspaper. About a hundred thousand people were dead quiet in the first half, after Togo took a 1-0 lead. But it was bedlam after Korea came back to win. A lot of fun. Everyone is still screaming "Tae-han min-guk," with the endless beat that follows ... 1-2 pause 1-2 pause 1.

Here are some photos from tonight's craziness.

At top, is a view from City Hall. There were many more people there than it even looks like. The next shot is some Korean fans. They were doing face-painting, and I wanted to get a picture of that ... but they misunderstood and posed for this photo. How embarrassing. The next shot came after Korea won the game, and the final one was the masses going home on the subway. Of course, everywhere, people were shouting and chanting. It's two hours after the game ended, and people are still honking their horns and cheering.