Seoul Lantern Parade 2012

 An annual event to celebrate the birthday of Buddha. Something not to be missed if you happen to be in Seoul. Well, for us who live right here...it is also something not to be missed. Of course, we could easily sit on the couch and turn on TV since it was also aired live.

But I'm sure it would feel the same like being right in and seeing the parade with our own eyes while at the same time being exposed to the sights and sounds and even the smell (in a good sense, though) of the parade. 

Lots of colorful costumes, dances, music, floats, and people (both Korean and of foreign nationalities) were all crammed into the 5-km long parade. What a night, eh?

 

 
Of course, it would not have been complete without the dragon floats or lantern. See that? it was so long that I got to take the picture twice.
Just find the tail of the dragon right on the picture below^^
 

I could not help but keep on taking picture after picture until my hands got numb. The only thing that kept us glued to stand and look out our heads just to sneak and peek into somebody else's elbows, heads, and shoulders was...the fact that the lights emitted from the floats were just beautiful.

See what I meant? 

Food Bank Concert

Food Bank concert? yes..I think this was what I bumped into when I was walking down in front of the Seoul City Hall. The whole city square in front of the City Hall was barely packed with people that day. But, it seemed that a station TV was airing its Live. 

Since I was just passing by and got no time to look, I might as well take some pictures to take a moment or two. wish I'd known more about it.

Then, so as to make the moment more eventful than just momentarily uneventful, I took a glimpse look at how green the square was at that time. Look beyond! A pagoda-like sculpture was already built to celebrate the coming celebration of Buddha's birthday this May 28. 

Back to the festival of Food Bank--that I knew nothing of--, I took one last click of the view to make sure that I'd definitely go grab some more info on this stuff later on.