Dispatches from Crazytown

September 19, 2009

Dispatch from the Korean Parade and Festival

by chris
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This weekend our neighborhood played host to the 36th Annual Korean Festival. Somehow or other, I missed this epic event last year, so I was surprised by its scope. Not only was there a three-hour parade that shut down Olympic Blvd. between Vermont and Western (terminating at the Koreatown Plaza, see UHL: Summiting Mount Western) but there was a four-day exposition in Seoul International Park (see Dispatch from Kor-azytown II) that shoved the crowds of day laborers aside to make room for rows-upon-rows of booths from such event sponsors as Hyundai, Jinro soju, Maeil Caffe Latte (since 1997), the City of Euijeongbu, and McDonald’s. One particularly drunk attendee informed us using his limited English that he had come down from San Francisco just for the Festival (”in Francisco, no Korean”).

Here were a few of the day’s highlights:

- I finally tried a Korean Taco Truck taco. And it lived up to the hype.
- I failed to win a soju T-shirt by throwing velcro balls at a bullseye.
- A Korean man sang “My Way” as part of the senior citizen singing competition.
- The parade was strangely filled with Mexican community groups and mariachi bands.
- County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas called me “sir” when I waved a balloon at him.

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