Sunday the Olympic torch passed through Seoul on its way to Beijing for the Olympics in August. While there were some protesters it was mostly Chinese students. Lisa and I went to the Olympic Stadium to see the torch handed off. When it arrived there were bicycle cops, running cops, police buses and hundreds of Chinese students surrounding it. It was kinda cool, but only lasted a few minutes and it was off down the street. Reading stories about it later sounds like we really missed the excitement. There was a man who doused himself in gasoline and was going to light himself on fire, but the police grabbed him so he couldn't. Another man tried to jump on the torch bearer to put it out, but he was stopped, too. What I saw was peaceful, just a bunch of people really excited about China.
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