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伦多当东道主的时候，大量警力的布置给当地人造成不便，他们怨声连连；交通拥堵让匹兹堡人茫然，他们写英语徘句来描画；见多识广的伦敦人，总体上还是该干吗干吗。但在韩国这个次轻量级的经济强国，人们自豪于韩国能跻身G20这个在世界上居于领导地位的俱乐部。受韩国周四周五主办G20峰会的鼓舞，流行乐坛的大明星们齐声欢歌。他们唱了一首迈克尔•杰克逊(Michael Jackson)《We Are the World》风格的欢快版翻唱调歌曲《Let's Go》（让我们前行）：
Y'all ready for this G-20 in Seoul 2010?
A shoutout to the world, a calling for your soul
A time to share, a time to love.
Don't mind the haters, we go together.
（2010年首尔G20，都准备好了吗？
向世界高歌，从内心呼喊，
分享的时刻，爱的时刻。
不必在意怨憎者，我们一同前行。）
Reuters
日本的AKB48女子组合在为庆祝峰会召开表演。
作为各国领导人解决全球问题的主要论坛，G20今年已进入第三个年头，而韩国也是首个不属于范围更窄的八国集团(G8)成员之列的G20峰会东道主。这一点让老百姓、企业和政府高级官员涌现出巨大的民族自豪，拨打他们的办公电话，听到的不是普通铃声，而是前面G20之歌的合唱段落：“Let's gooooo! Oh oh oh!”
接近一年前这种热情就积累起来，当时G20各成员国的国旗出现在机场行李提取处和全国各地的购物广场。
更近一些的时候，首尔数幢大楼开始在30层高的地方打出条幅，上面显示着峰会的图标或其口号“Shared Growth Beyond Crisis”（跨越危机，携手成长）。
美国人戈登•弗雷克(Gordon Flake)最近和美国同事一起在首尔街头行走时，沿途都是打着G20图标的广告和条幅。这位来自华盛顿的亚洲安全分析师说，我跟他们说，这次峰会必须要比匹兹堡峰会做更多事情，而我这两位受过良好教育的美国同事是这么回答的：“匹兹堡办过G20峰会？”
首尔以前是经历过大场面的。但对韩国人来说，本周的盛会意义非凡，这是对他们国家几十年来尝试转变其饱受战争破坏的穷国形象获得成功的认可。
韩国总统李明博（Lee Myung-bak）上周发表电台演讲时说，这是我们的血汗成果，我们应该为自己感到非常自豪。他说G20峰会将成为继1988年首尔奥运会之后韩国最大的盛会，其国际媒体关注度将会是2002年与日本联合举办世界杯时的四倍。
他还说，除了能够带来金钱利益，更重要的是韩国人民的民族自尊和国家威望的增强。
韩国表现出的强烈支持很大程度上归功于这个国家面积小、人口密度大，以及媒体对该事件的大量报道。负责组织G20集团峰会的总统委员会主席司空一（Sakong Il）说，除非韩国人明白韩国现在与世界最强的国家平起平坐，并且应该表现出这种姿态，否则他会认为这不是一次成功的盛会。
司空一说，我们希望利用这个十分难得的宝贵机会来加速变革。当人们问及他们如何才能参与此次峰会，司空一说，他告诉他们应该做更好的市民，做社区的志愿者，促进再循环，遵守交通法规。
峰会地点位于首尔最大商场顶层的会议中心，在这里，购物者可通过录像亭室向领导人留言，然后可以得到南非总统祖马（Jacob Zuma）或澳大利亚总理吉拉德（Julia Gillard）或其他G20领导人与自己的合成照片。
最近留言给李明博希望他主办峰会好运的Park Sung-hee说，这次峰会将邀请很多外国人，因此我们有了介绍自己的机会，这样一来，韩国企业可以增加出口，我们的经济最终也会更强。
另一位留言人士Park Hyung-bai说，此次峰会宣传过度了，和首尔奥运会及世界杯相比，韩国人表现出的激动情绪似乎不是那么发自内心。即便如此，Park Hyung-bai说，韩国还是感到非常荣幸，人们愿意为峰会的成功举办做出牺牲。
Evan Ramstad
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Inconvenienced Torontonians grumbled about the big police presence when they played host. Bemused Pittsburghers wrote haikus about the traffic jams. Cosmopolitan Londoners, in general, took little notice.
But here in South Korea, the bantamweight economic powerhouse, people take pride in being a member of the Group of 20 leading nations. And so playing host to a G-20 summit Thursday and Friday inspired the nation's biggest pop stars to burst into chirpy song, with a bubbly 'We Are the World'-style tribute tune, 'Let's Go':
'Y'all ready for this G-20 in Seoul 2010?
A shoutout to the world, a calling for your soul
A time to share, a time to love.
Don't mind the haters, we go together.'
Before world leaders assembled here to deliberate exchange-rate gyrations and the relative merits of stimulus versus austerity, South Koreans warmed up for the big event with academic conferences, a G-20 film festival and a G-20-theme pop concert of singers from across Asia. South Korea's first lady was a guest of honor at a G-20 formal style gala, a show of evening wear and a Creative Floral Performance.
South Korea is the first host of the G-20 -- entering its third year as the main forum for leaders to address global issues -- not to have been a member of the more exclusive G-8. This point has led to an outpouring of national pride by private citizens, corporations and top-level bureaucrats, whose office telephone systems have been greeting callers not with ringtones, but with bars from the G-20 song's chorus: 'Let's gooooo! Oh oh oh!'
The fever had been building since nearly a year ago, when the flags of the G-20 countries appeared at airport baggage claims and in shopping malls across the country.
More recently a number of Seoul buildings began displaying banners, 30 stories high, with the summit's logo or its slogan, 'Shared Growth Beyond Crisis.'
American Gordon Flake toured the array of G-20-logoed advertising and banners as he walked through Seoul recently with American colleagues. 'I said to them that this had to be much more than Pittsburgh did,' said Mr. Flake, an Asia security analyst visiting from Washington. 'And the response from my two, well-educated American colleagues was: 'There was a G-20 in Pittsburgh?' '
Seoul has been on the big stage before. But for South Koreans, this week's gig has been a singular recognition that the country has arrived after decades of attempting to transform itself from a poor, war-torn economy.
'This is the fruit of our sweat and blood, and we may well be proud of ourselves,' President Lee Myung-bak said in a radio address last week, saying the G-20 would be South Korea's biggest event since the 1988 Seoul Olympics and could generate four times the international publicity of the 2002 World Cup it co-hosted with Japan.
'What is more important than the monetary benefit is the heightened self-esteem of the Korean people and the prestige of the republic,' he added.
South Koreans' strong buy-in has been largely thanks to the country's compact size and high population density, and the saturated media coverage of the event. Sakong Il, the chairman of the summit organizing committee, said he wouldn't consider the event a success unless South Koreans understood that the country now sits at the table with the world's biggest powers, and should act like one itself.
'We would like to take this very, very, very valuable opportunity as a way to speed up change,' Mr. Sakong said. When people asked how they could participate in the summit, Mr. Sakong said he told them to become better citizens, volunteer in their community, recycle and follow traffic laws.
At the site of the summit meeting -- a convention center that sits atop Seoul's biggest mall -- shoppers could leave messages for the leaders in a video booth and then receive composite photographs of themselves with South Africa's Jacob Zuma, Australia's Julia Gillard or other G-20 leaders.
'This event is about inviting a lot of foreigners so that we can have a chance to introduce ourselves,' said Park Sung-hee, who left a message recently for Mr. Lee wishing him luck hosting the summit. 'By doing so, Korean businesses can export more and we can ultimately have a better economy.'
Another visitor at the booth, Park Hyung-bai, said the summit hype had become overblown and felt more forced than the excitement that South Koreans felt during the Olympics and the World Cup. Even so, Mr. Park said, South Korea is 'very honored,' and he added, 'People will sacrifice for the sake of a successful hosting.'
Evan Ramstad
But here in South Korea, the bantamweight economic powerhouse, people take pride in being a member of the Group of 20 leading nations. And so playing host to a G-20 summit Thursday and Friday inspired the nation's biggest pop stars to burst into chirpy song, with a bubbly 'We Are the World'-style tribute tune, 'Let's Go':
'Y'all ready for this G-20 in Seoul 2010?
A shoutout to the world, a calling for your soul
A time to share, a time to love.
Don't mind the haters, we go together.'
Before world leaders assembled here to deliberate exchange-rate gyrations and the relative merits of stimulus versus austerity, South Koreans warmed up for the big event with academic conferences, a G-20 film festival and a G-20-theme pop concert of singers from across Asia. South Korea's first lady was a guest of honor at a G-20 formal style gala, a show of evening wear and a Creative Floral Performance.
South Korea is the first host of the G-20 -- entering its third year as the main forum for leaders to address global issues -- not to have been a member of the more exclusive G-8. This point has led to an outpouring of national pride by private citizens, corporations and top-level bureaucrats, whose office telephone systems have been greeting callers not with ringtones, but with bars from the G-20 song's chorus: 'Let's gooooo! Oh oh oh!'
The fever had been building since nearly a year ago, when the flags of the G-20 countries appeared at airport baggage claims and in shopping malls across the country.
More recently a number of Seoul buildings began displaying banners, 30 stories high, with the summit's logo or its slogan, 'Shared Growth Beyond Crisis.'
American Gordon Flake toured the array of G-20-logoed advertising and banners as he walked through Seoul recently with American colleagues. 'I said to them that this had to be much more than Pittsburgh did,' said Mr. Flake, an Asia security analyst visiting from Washington. 'And the response from my two, well-educated American colleagues was: 'There was a G-20 in Pittsburgh?' '
Seoul has been on the big stage before. But for South Koreans, this week's gig has been a singular recognition that the country has arrived after decades of attempting to transform itself from a poor, war-torn economy.
'This is the fruit of our sweat and blood, and we may well be proud of ourselves,' President Lee Myung-bak said in a radio address last week, saying the G-20 would be South Korea's biggest event since the 1988 Seoul Olympics and could generate four times the international publicity of the 2002 World Cup it co-hosted with Japan.
'What is more important than the monetary benefit is the heightened self-esteem of the Korean people and the prestige of the republic,' he added.
South Koreans' strong buy-in has been largely thanks to the country's compact size and high population density, and the saturated media coverage of the event. Sakong Il, the chairman of the summit organizing committee, said he wouldn't consider the event a success unless South Koreans understood that the country now sits at the table with the world's biggest powers, and should act like one itself.
'We would like to take this very, very, very valuable opportunity as a way to speed up change,' Mr. Sakong said. When people asked how they could participate in the summit, Mr. Sakong said he told them to become better citizens, volunteer in their community, recycle and follow traffic laws.
At the site of the summit meeting -- a convention center that sits atop Seoul's biggest mall -- shoppers could leave messages for the leaders in a video booth and then receive composite photographs of themselves with South Africa's Jacob Zuma, Australia's Julia Gillard or other G-20 leaders.
'This event is about inviting a lot of foreigners so that we can have a chance to introduce ourselves,' said Park Sung-hee, who left a message recently for Mr. Lee wishing him luck hosting the summit. 'By doing so, Korean businesses can export more and we can ultimately have a better economy.'
Another visitor at the booth, Park Hyung-bai, said the summit hype had become overblown and felt more forced than the excitement that South Koreans felt during the Olympics and the World Cup. Even so, Mr. Park said, South Korea is 'very honored,' and he added, 'People will sacrifice for the sake of a successful hosting.'
Evan Ramstad
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