It's 2007! Yay! I just returned from downtown, where I rung in the new year in Jungang Park amidst hundreds of other holiday revelers. People shot off fireworks and watched a television broadcast of a group of dancers singing the rousing World Cup song (South Korea made it to the semifinal in the 2006 World Cup, since then, it's become a sort of national song of pride). And then there was the countdown. I followed the crowd out of the park and back to the subway, which was running all night instead of stopping at midnight due to the occassion, and stopped on the curb to watch a loud (both in sound and color) fireworks display before heading home.