The Asian Games 2014 just wrapped up. The local press was of course excited about it, with plenty of coverage of the contests as well as the human interest stories and the local angle. Specifically, the Little Country That Could showing the world this great success story of modernization. And the games went quite smoothly -- the website immediately listed stats on all the contests with all the player names and numbers, as they happened! Unfortunately, the English-language web portal was evidently subcontracted to a travel agency that really did not worry about local English speakers seeking tickets -- various links looped to each other, or to brochures or Korean-language pages. We could not figure out how to buy tickets online. And there did not seem to be much local marketing -- few flyers or handbills or ads in the papers. Our local 7-11 posted an ad reminding that 7-11 was the official sponsor of the Asian Games! The games were held...
Log of our travels and thoughts.