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Mexicans dancing and singing Gangnam Style with Koreans after South Korea's victory in the World Cup
by /u/MuttonBiryaniEnjoyer | 111 comments | 2026-06-12T23:18:43+00:00 Central
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| /u/frogdamn Sports bringing people together. |
| /u/Boltentoke The NBA finals would like a word. |
| /u/TummyStickers I mean it's bringing people together, just in a different way. |
| /u/Boltentoke Gang + 'nam style, but not the fun one like from this video |
| /u/freshvomit__ Americans are the problem |
| /u/terdferguson It's the world cup. I got to experience it in 94. Its a mostly joyous event of melding cultures over love of a game. |
| /u/ATLfalcons27 The world cup is completely different. I was in South Africa and Brazil following the US and everyone absolutely loved each other during this time. It didn't matter which countries we were interacting with whether it was just being out and around town, at fan events, or at matches |
| /u/Conscious-Move9662 World Baseball Classic and Olympics are very similar. The only time fights broke out was Team USA vs Team Mexico. That was mostly Paisas vs Chicanos (Viva La Raza!) fighting. Mexican Nationals vs Mexican Americans If you're from South-West America there is a lot of cultural tension between those two groups. It was also an elimination match that USA wasn't supposed to be fighting for and Mexico didn't expect to be in. Italy was big upsetti for a lot of the tourney. |
| /u/MishkaShubaly Hockey brings people together |
| /u/LadderMadeOfSticks Together in shared disliking of Vegas? |
| /u/shinobi-dragonninja I wonder what will happen after June 18 when it is Korea vs Mexico in the world cup. Will they still be friends? |
| /u/spitzr2 Get the dancing out of the way first before the rioting starts! |
| /u/GODDAMNFOOL This is what globalism should be. Willful and free sharing of fun culture. Nobody should be restricted from this celebration, but unfortunately the US has other ideas |
| /u/urban_meyers_cyst Man this looks like a fun time and I don't like soccer (meaning I don't know it). |
| /u/Leumas_ Man, the Mexico/Korea bromance is the World Cup story I didn't know I needed. |
| /u/Zech08 wait till you hear they like watching each other's shows. |
| /u/Barton2800 Korean/Mexican fusion food is also great. Seoul Taco in St. Louis and Chicago is tasty. |
| /u/NormalComputer There's an Asian/Mexican fusion place I go to every now and then that does a Sambal Queso. Indonesian spice in a white cheese blend. It's so fucking good dude |
| /u/PM_asian_girl_smiles There was a place in SF called Tacorea which had some bomb-ass bulgogi burritos. But I think they were the victim of the pandemic. |
| /u/Rapph Roy Choi's place Best Friend in Vegas was very good too. |
| /u/GloomyIndividual3965 You just reminded me of a place in Portland I went to years ago that was also probably a victim of the pandemic. Short ribs that were braised overnight so the little bones all fell out. Made into street tacos with diced onion and spicy pickled bean sprouts. |
| /u/universalaxolotl Yep LA is just...Korean/Mexican fusion, but at scale. |
| /u/Kids_see_ghosts There used to be a Korean Mexican food trailer where I lived long ago called Takorea and I always loved that clever name so much. |
| /u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Ayyy fellow Stl mate! |
| /u/HighlyOffensive10 And eating each other's food. Never meet a Mexican that doesn't like Korean food. Koreans how do you feel about Mexican food? |
| /u/CluckCluckChickenNug Broooo don't even get my started!! Me encanta la comida mexicana!! Puedo comer todos los dias cabrones!! |
| /u/PM_asian_girl_smiles El queso esta viejo y podrido. ¿Donde esta el sanitario? |
| /u/rydenified i f w mexican food heavy. all the soups like caldo de res and posole are 🔥. You can never go wrong w tacos too. Mexicans also love cow tongue and so do we. |
| /u/GloomyIndividual3965 Mexicans also love cow tongue and so do we. I didn't know I needed lengua bibimbap in my life until right now. |
| /u/rydenified Honestly sounds so good. Let's start something 🤣 |
| /u/verbutten My cousin visited us here in the US from Seoul and one of her first requests was to find a hole-in-the-wall to grab pozole haha. We did just that and it was fucking delicious |
| /u/Nightriser Looove it! And I'm not the only one! https://youtu.be/XbM2zv1ixGU?is=hOHB796Kov2wGwIi |
| /u/Fleur-deNuit I live in Korea and can confirm it's easily one of the more common foreign cuisines, with its own category on all the delivery apps. Whether or not it is good Mexican food is another matter. |
| /u/ScrofessorLongHair Lol. Everybody likes Mexican food. Especially real Mexican food. |
| /u/AndySocial88 Novellas sprinted so K dramas could catch the relay fr |
| /u/Leaningthemoon Wait till you hear about their fusion cuisine! |
| /u/Nightriser I learned more Korean from my Mexican friend who loved K-dramas than my own Korean mother. Also, K-dramas are usually extremely sentimental and dramatic, so I suppose there's some overlap there. |
| /u/International-Mud91 Love to see it as a Korean Am guy married to a Mexican Am guy 💕 |
| /u/Licklack Just wait till the brovalry on Thursday. It'll be heated. |
| /u/mikeru22 Korean-Mexican fusion food is legit too. There's a place in DC called TaKorean 😋 |
| /u/jaron_b Mexico to South Korea "did we just become best friends?!" |
| /u/PhotochadA2358 I think they've been friends since the last World Cup. IIRC South Korea eliminated an opponent on the last day that sent Mexico through to the next round. |
| /u/Ace_TE 2018 WC in Russia, they beat Germany in a game that didn't mean anything to them which helped Mexico advance out of groups. |
| /u/ImJ2001 Thank you. Been wondering what the connection was since the first video dropped. |
| /u/Naustis That was 8 years ago 💀 |
| /u/peanutjamz A passionate fan base never forgets (Source - bills fan. Cc: Andy dalton & bengals ... although it has since soured a bit 😅) |
| /u/n8meeR 8 years is nothing in football years. Fans will bring up 20-year-old moments like yesterday |
| /u/yourmomssubluminal This is so much more rude to say to a Brazilian than 28-3 is to an Atlantian lol |
| /u/yesrushgenesis2112 It has soured a bit. On field deaths and blowouts and pick sixes will do that. Still, we both love Andy Dalton. |
| /u/Academic_Flatworm752 Nolan Ryan fistfight fan right here lol |
| /u/choonghuh I talked to a Mexican coworker today and he remembers it better than I do lol |
| /u/pyrojackelope I was just talking to a Mexican and South African fan in a 711 earlier today. Trust me. These people remember everything. |
| /u/PhotochadA2358 No it wasn't that was just back in 20...damn. |
| /u/_Lucille_ Some memories just don't go away, just like Brazil and 7:1. |
| /u/Cebuanolearner Teaching Brazilian student you can spell Brazil as BRA71L gave him sad face |
| /u/Coyote275 Bro, you just made my day 🤣🤣🤣 |
| /u/msp2081 That was only 2 World Cups ago. |
| /u/SolarTsunami 2023 was 8 years ago? |
| /u/OfficeMagic1 Gangnam Style was 15 years ago |
| /u/aegee14 And, Mexico LOVES Kpop, BTS. |
| /u/MarlaHoooooch Also, South Korean businesses have been investing in Mexico and many have migrated to Mexico. There's even a town in Northern Mexico nicknamed "Pescorea", because of the population increase. |
| /u/Frodojj Heck I remember Mexican footballers chanting outside the South Korean Embassy, "¡Coreano, hermano, ya eres mexicano!" |
| /u/jaron_b I forgot that all went down last World Cup. It was like a meaningless game for Korea too? They were already in or out regardless. Love how fans never forget. |
| /u/CrazedRaven01 It wasn't Qatar, but in Russia when S Korea saved Mexico from elimination |
| /u/kemicalkontact Backstory is that in 2018 World Cup Mexico was doing well in the group stage but lost 0-3 against Sweden. South Korea was in the same group but wasn't going to make it out but they still beat Germany 2-0 which allowed Mexico to advance. Since that day Mexican football ⚽ fans (the majority of the population) root for South Korea in international events. Just so happened that South Korea played their first match to the "home" crowd. |
| /u/Ronin607 Hopefully the good will remains after they play each other next week. |
| /u/TheG8Uniter Move over Vietnam. Mexipho time is over the era of Mexigogi beg8ns! |
| /u/ace260 People from Mexico also love to party so this was a win-win |
| /u/counteroffer19 Damn. The event really brings cultures together in a positive way. Love to see it. |
| /u/TWVer Well, this is what a World Cup should be all about. It arguably isn't these days, but this is a small but meaningful example of what it should aspire to always. |
| /u/yanansawelder It arguably isn't these days I mean the football world cup has literally always been about nations coming together and having fun even moreso over the past 12 years. |
| /u/frazbox These are the things smartphones and social media were made for! |
| /u/Responsible-Sound253 Its these kinds of experiences the reason why most countries don't care how corrupt the host country is. Lots of those countries have their own problems, and the world cup is an occasion every 4 years where they get a moment of reprieve, anybody who tells them to boycott the world cup is wasting their time. Trump is awful? Not my problem, I just want to enjoy the moment I've been waiting for 4 years. |
| /u/GallaeciCastrejo Well.. sometimes... the opposite happens. |
| /u/Relevant-Ad2254 This just in. Trump is now signing an EO to ban the World Cup and will carpet bomb any nation that tries to host it. |
| /u/choonghuh I went to Dick's today looking for a Korean jersey and they didn't bother having any. I got mad and bought a Mexican jersey for $130 and fucking love it. Yes I'm aware we play each other next. Idk what I'm gonna wear lol |
| /u/Sportfreunde They're like $30 on dhgate. |
| /u/clutch22 DHgate has been the GOAT for years mate. |
| /u/tinyE1138 I guess Gloria Estefan was right; one day the rhythm is gonna get you. |
| /u/LadyJR Mexicans know how to party from dawn until dusk and dawn again. |
| /u/Zech08 Selma Hayek: You rang? |
| /u/HighlyOffensive10 Mexicans sexily 🐍🥃🦶 |
| /u/rvnnt09 Oh I know it. Had a Mexican family move in behind me last year. Wonderful people and amazing neighbors but God damn I gotta watch myself whenever they invite me over for a party or ill hate myself for 2 days afterwards while I recover 🤣 |
| /u/N7_Stats_Analyst Wait till they start playing K-pop Demon Hunters |
| /u/Uncle_Paul_Hargis I feel like we need World Cup to heal us these days. |
| /u/5HITCOMBO 8 years of Mexican Korean relations still going strong I was wearing my SK jersey in Las Vegas that day and some Mexican dude walking past me just looked at me and yelled LOS COREANOOOOOOOS |
| /u/Blinkster20 Someone send this to NY Knicks fans lol |
| /u/-SideshowBlob- Not all football fans are angels either |
| /u/Barton2800 Context for those out of the loop: theres a bunch of videos of Knicks fans beating the shit out of people unprovoked for the crime of wearing a Spurs jersey. |
| /u/Radiant_Sherbert7272 I think 56 people have been arrested as well. |
| /u/ArkhamTight606 Now this is good sportsmanship! No riots, no fights, just partying and having a blast. |
| /u/R3quiemdream There's a reason Mexico is ranked one of the friendliest countries in the world |
| /u/bryan_pieces Korea, hermanos. Ya eres mexicano |
| /u/aegee14 This is what the World Cup is all about. |
| /u/HogSandwich This is the purest and best thing |
| /u/AlreadyFifty Sooooooooo much better than what New York is doing. |
| /u/DeezNeezuts These two cuisines coming together create a spiciness so powerful the universe might end. |
| /u/yaddayadda1000 You know I wonder how ibs sufferers of both nationalities go through life |
| /u/mrducci This is the fanbase version of Dani Rojas/ Zoreaux story line in Ted Lasso. It will be gnarly next week. |
| /u/Redrooff Great to see this. An interesting tidbit, in MMA Mexicans vs Koreans have some of the best fights ever |
| /u/Jlx_27 This is how the world could be.... |
| /u/LameAfro Just because you saw a few assholes doesn't represent all of NY. The good will always outweigh the bad like this lol |
| /u/Zech08 I mean usually its the otherway around in that it doesnt take much to ruin everything. |
| /u/DickBottalico LOL still rolling with that excuse? |
| /u/MammothDull1176 Who else's wishes they were in Mexico and that Mexico and Canada were the only ones hosting this year's world cup? |
| /u/Zech08 "what" in spanish sounds like sesame seeds in korean. |
| /u/Jump_Stream Some of the other tribalistic and violent sporting fan groups from not just soccer, but other sports as well, could learn a thing or two from this. |
| /u/ryalsandrew Mexicans are pretty awesome |
| /u/ClaymanBaker Compared to the NBA fans at each other's throats. |
| /u/danimal6000 The love affair between Mexico and South Korea has been my favorite part of this cup |
| /u/WymarOath Imagine choosing hate, bigotry, prejudice while you can have this, lol |