[above: Underwear flash mob. Please don't try this in Seoul.]You may have heard of a "flash mob," a large group of people who use mobile devices to coordinate a sudden mass assembly in a public place where they perform some weird act (nothing illegal) for a brief period, and then disappear into the night (or the day, depending on what time it is).
In a similar vein, a "freeze" is a type of a flash mob where a bunch of people assemble in the same place and then stop moving for several minutes.
Got it? Yeah, it sounds a little nuts to me, too.
Anyhoo, a freeze is set to take place in Insa-dong on Saturday, April 11, at 3 p.m. Specifically on Insandong-gil. It's near exit 6 of Anguk Station on line #3 (the orange line).
So get there and shop (or pretend to shop) and at 3 p.m. you freeze. Hopefully there will be other participants there so that you can follow their lead and unfreeze when the time is right. That will also make you look just a tad less silly.
Anyway, tell a friend.
[right: Zombie flash mob. Please try this instead. I'd like to hear how the police react. Don't be surprised if they ask you to pee in a cup.]
I think these things are stupid. What is the point? To further instill in these "people" that we are different and in their little minds "strange?" They won't understand, they won't get it.
ReplyDelete(You gonna take me apart line by line, Kushie?)
I think these things are stupid.
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree. I only passed along the information, sort of in the hopes of sparking a whole discussion about these.
What is the point? To further instill in these "people" that we are different and in their little minds "strange?"
Frankly, I agree with you that that's what would happen, at least for a large portion (perhaps a majority).
They won't understand, they won't get it.
I agree, most won't. But I don think some will, and from the source of this I get the impression that there will actually be native Koreans participating as well. This kind of thing — which they will go online and read about and study to see what it's all about — is an advertisement for the freedom (or rather, the lack of social rigidity that makes so many Koreans feel 답답해) available elsewhere.
(You gonna take me apart line by line, Kushie?)
You know you want me to. :)