As for Incheon and Suwon, access is relatively more convenient than other host cities. Stadiums are just about 5-25 minutes of walk from subway station. For other places, you will definitely need to ride a cab.
Thankfully I do plan to take a subway to Incheon stadium (though I was up in the air for the first game). For the game in Daejeon, I booked a train ticket, then plan to take a subway from Daejeon station
big kudos for being there and/or travelling there. Not sure where you live but a tip of the cap to you, sir. how was the game? looked oddly reminiscent of the 2002, with staged fans and staged teams to cheer for. But they are into it and I can't fault that.
I said I needed a vacation, and the US being drawn in Incheon was perfect for it. Quite different from my town of 24k, needless to say! I missed the first game as I was in the air, but will be there for the 2nd and 3rd US games!
off topic, played Bavarians many of times in the Donaschaben tournaments in IL and WI... ok, back to U20 WC.
Hard to explain, but imagine a section of South Koreans holding up Ecuador signs, and next to that a section of South Koreans holding USA signs. And it's like ladies, grandmas, kids, men, everyone. Hard to explain.
Yes, I noticed that while watching some games. Is that not just people who decide "hey, there's this soccer tournament going on in my city, why don't I check a few games out?" I know that's what I would do if this tournament was in the US.
Basically what it sounds like. The South Koreans organize fans to go to the games for other teams. I don't think they get paid or what they do but it would basically be like if we all got together and went to an Ecuador v Peru game and decided to cheer for Peru.
oh well, to me it just looks like random locals who decided to check out a game. Looked like groups of kids and groups of older people. Like they had extra batches of tickets for a high school field trip and a retirement home to give them something to do. I wouldn't say "staged fans".
reminds me of this story.... http://deadspin.com/5564578/north-korean-soccer-fans-are-actually-chinese-volunteers
As the link above shows the North Koreans hired a bunch of Chinese actors to go to the stadium and pretend to be their fans.
A bit late, but I did end up having to go home after the group stage (so I wouldn't miss my sister's high school graduation), but it's a trip where I wish I could have stayed there longer! Also, found out that I had gotten on TV twice, mainly due to my seats
and probably because they couldn't find too many US fans. I went to a hockey tournament in Russia last year and was on tv after almost every goal just because i was the only US fan there.
I didn't get on TV for the goals...but the camera did focus on me at times. The fact that I was wearing my cheesehead meant that I was hard to miss