Cheering
The main activity for the Red Devils is supporting the national football team, i.e. cheering. The cheering of the Red Devils is noted for being highly organized and extremely passionate, so much so that they are called "the 12th member" of the football team.
The most common cheer is in a cadence of shouting and clapping: "대~한민국! (Dae~han Minguk, Republic of Korea)" followed by five claps (clap-clap—clap-clap—clap--, the first and the third being halfnotes). The clapping is usually accompanied by percussion instruments like the Korean drum buk or thundersticks to keep the beat. Supporters also cheer by singing the famous Korean folk song, Arirang, and various songs made for the World Cup.
Cheering is done in stadiums, theaters and also many public plazas and squares in front of jumbo screens. On homeground, the Red Devils usually sit behind the goal at the northside of the stadium. Enthusiastic members make groups in order to attend homeaway games in foreign countries as well.
Supporters wear red, like the national football team players. Devil horns and other adornments are popular as well.
Read more about this topic: Red Devils (supporters Club)
Famous quotes containing the word cheering:
“As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)