At the end of September, I took off for what was my first ever trip to South Korea. For a person whose knowledge of Korea was limited to kimchi, bulgoggi and bibimbap, there were no expectations whatsoever. Considering my main reason being the Incheon R-16 Bboy Competition, an annual event that involves 16 teams from 15 different countries to battle it out for the crown, anything else would be a bonus. If all else disappoints, I'll just eat my way through Korea.
Nope, it's not photoshop. Incheon, the city where the competition took place, is very dead. As an initiative to bring more foreign investment, Songdo, the part of Incheon where we stayed, was completely built up from reclaimed land in order to create a new 'Free Economic Zone'. Due to the recession, the city will not be complete until 2015, 3 years later than the planned finish date. So at this moment the city has not reached it's full capacity. As one of the bboys put it, there are no cats, no dogs, no rubbish. Which in a way is quite nice, almost like Tokyo with no people.
Anywho. Prior to our arrival, they held the preliminary rounds as well as a graffiti competition.
I had the pleasure of meeting a certain Mr. Jay Lewis, an incredible photographer from New York who has some really nice shots of the grafitti competition, you can check it out on his blog.
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