We found out that Korea does do hockey! With my dad being a hockey fan, I wanted to try to find out if Korea has a hockey team. One day, Jeremy and I were walking in Lake Park, when we stumbled upon a game of roller hockey. Seeing this, we thought that possibly there could be an ice hockey team. I asked on Ansan Answers on Facebook, and they said there is a team called Anyang Halla. We also found out that there were only two more home games left in the season! I quickly asked our Korean friend to find out about tickets. Sure enough, we were able to buy tickets and attend their Saturday game. We also found out they were playing game 3 in the playoffs. Lucky us. :D It was open seating, and since we arrived pretty much at the end of the first period, all the seats were taken. Us and a bunch of people had to stand for the duration of the game. It was fine though. The arena was really small; definitely was not like the Rose Garden. We saw quite a few foreigners at the game, which was nice, but they looked at us whenever we walked by. They must not be used to white people, haha! :) Watching the game felt like we were home a tad bit. They had two mascots, a male and female polar bear! :D The game ended 5-4. It was a close one, too! What the funniest thing was whenever the home team got anywhere near the opponents goal, the crowd just went wild! The player could have totally missed the net, but everyone would be shouting and getting excited! It was definitely a lot of fun. Oh, and Anyang Halla is actually one of two Korean ice hockey teams in the Asia League. And the game we watched was against Japan.
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