Choose one! beer or soccer? – PGE Park by JaeHyeon
I went to the PGE park with A-Ram and Josh(My host Grandson). PGE park was built to play baseball. However soccer match are often held in the place. I went to there to see the soccer match between Portland Timbers and Puerto Rico.
First thing that made me surprised was food stores in the stadium. There were many beer stores and instant food stores so people bought much food and ate them in the onlookers seat. In Korea, In any sport stadium there are only two or three stores which sell some coke or snack. I thought in America subsidiary enterprises are pretty developed beyond my expectation.
Second thing interesting was setting of stadium. There was the space in the playing field where people drinks beer. In the place, there were lots of people because the price of beer was half in the day. The people in that place seemed not to be interested in the soccer match. They only drank beer and talked to each other! It was unimaginable situation in the Korea soccer stadium.
Other things like behavior of fans, booing, relaying are similar to that of Korea. Even if the soccer game was not really exciting and fun, It was great time to experience American sports culture which is more commercial than Korea.