THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT:^^ I have to write a special analysis (20pages+) about the economic influences of the 2002 world cup. One point in my analysis is if you ( the koreans ) are satisfied with the way the world cup turned out to affect your economy. Did the worldcup met your expectations? As the WC2002 was said to be a enormous present for Korea, I hope you can answer my question Thank you very much
No World Cup did not help me at all because i missed some school days...but then again it was end of the schoolyear and nuttin much to do. I remember staying up till like 3 in the morning and watching Korea-US or that awesome Korea-Spain matches...my god... Did he help economically? Well back in 02 here in NYC, i saw a lot of Koreans wearing the Red Devil T-Shirt, hell i had to pay a lot of money to buy Hong Myung Bo's jersey...
I'll try to help you as much as I can. Koreans expected a lot of Chinese visitors... estimated about 300K. There were a lot of merchandises especially made for Chinese visitors. Unfortunately only about 10K ~ 30K came to visit Korea, and some companies went out of business because of that. Also many Koreans (including professional scalpers) bought non-Korean games because they expected many guests but due to Fifa's mismanagement there were so many unsold tickets and when the match-ups started some people literally gave away those tickets. That's not all. Traditional Korean food vendors on streets were banned by government because it wanted to Korean streets to look "cool" by selling hamburgers and those western stuff. The fact is many visitors wanted to try and see traditional Korean food but were disappointed only to see the usual stuff they could get in their own countries. Obviously a mistake by the government. In terms of bringing foreign visitors to Korea, 2002 was probably more successful than any previous years but it wasn't by much more than you would expected. Teams like England, Germany and Italy who will bring fans and will spend money started their group play in Japan. Many fans probably started lodging and spent much of their vacation in Japan than in Korea. Hope this helped.