My wife Cindy and my oldest son Tim are visiting Jeju Island off the southern coast off the Korean mainland.
Here’s Cindy’s account of discovering that the Steeler’s Nation is even in Korea, 7000 miles away.
From Cindy’s text-
“So how’s this for a coincidence, Tim and I were walking thru a park trying to find a waterfall trail but came across an art exhibition where nice Korean ladies invited us in. The one lady was one of the artist and showed us her work. Then we looked at the other paintings, one with flowers and cherry blossoms caught Tim’s eye, thinking you’d like it and he noticed the vase said Pittsburgh Steelers so the ladies were very excited to hear we were from there and told me it’s for sale and they could contact the artist.
I talked to him on the phone and asked if a print was available but he said that’s an original and no prints but he would sell original frame and all and asked what I would pay for it.
I told him I wouldn’t feel comfortable telling him what it’s worth so he said $50. He is Korean but came to states in 1978 and the first football game he saw was Steelers vs. Denver. He’s been a Steelers fan ever since and he has been watching the draft. He said Pittsburgh Nation is everywhere.
Since the ladies can’t take credit cards , I would have to pay cash and had no KRW so he said he would take US dollars. I sill had the $50 you gave me when I left and gave them that.
Considering we have not seen any other Americans here , the odds of anyone else seeing that from Pittsburgh is very slim.”
