This is going to be a short post, but there is an funny thing that many Koreans will do in regards to American baseball. In the U.S. many people are obsessed with sports and religiously follow their sports teams. You have your Yankees fans and your Sox fans and every other MLB team has its followers. In Korea, they are also obsessed with baseball... in the few bars that I have gone to, the TVs all had Korean baseball on them. The Koreans also have a number of Major League Baseball stores where you can buy shirts, shoes, and hats with the team logos on them (for a nice $33 I can get a new Yankees hat). I do have to say that they have different, and more unique hats than we do have in Maine, so it was cool to see some of the different hats that I had never seen before.
My point of this whole thing, is that many Koreans will wear baseball hats and shirts not because they like the teams or the sport, but because they like the look of the items. I saw a girl yesterday wearing a Montreal Expos hat and thought to myself, I wonder if she knows they aren't a team anymore. I also saw the ultimate contradiction, which if I knew how to say "can I take your picture" I would do so, but I have seen two guys now (in separate locations) to be wearing a Red Sox hat, and a Yankees shirt... every time I see that I start to laugh and wonder if they know how that would not be tolerated in the United States.
The last thing in regards to the MLB is that the Koreans like to "support" teams that have Korean players on them. So when Chan Ho Park played for the Dodgers, everyone had Dodger clothing, and now you see a lot of Cleveland Indian stuff because Shin-Soo Choo plays for them and he's Korean.
Its just one of those different, cultural things than we see in America and its also funny to witness it and point it out.
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