That’s the school chant- the sound that an eagle, the Yonsei mascot, makes.
Aside from classes this week was really exciting because there is a famous 3-day event here in Seoul called 연고전 (Yon-ko Jon), where our university (Yonsei) and Korea university have a huge sports match and everyone goes crazy. From what I surmise the Yeon is for Yonsei (weird romanization) and the ko for Korea University. There’s so much to say about those three days that I don’t know if I can put it all in one post, but it was definitely new and wonderful, that’s for sure.
There were several events leading up to the sports matches where we could go and learn the school cheers because supposedly you can’t have any fun at the games without knowing them. I did not appreciate these words of wisdom adequately. “Cheer” is not an appropriately descriptive word. They were a bunch of random old pop songs songs with new lyrics in Korean that didn’t really have anything to do with sports– songs like the Ghost Busters theme song, love ballads, etc.
