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T24 Festival

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... that at the T24 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, former soldier Lee Kwang-nak successfully pitched a 24-person military tent all by himself in under 2 hours despite netizens calling it impossible?

Source: What started as an online dare quickly became perhaps one of the most unique events Seoul has seen this year. On the 30th of last month, a netizen posted a message on the photography-enthusiasts website “SLR Club,” asking “Can you pitch a 24-man army tent unaided?” What was meant to be a light-hearted online debate on the website’s message board became slightly more serious when Lee Kwang-nak, who goes by the online nickname of “Bug Lv.7,” replied “I can,” much to the ridicule of his fellow online community members. So “Bug Lv.7” took the stakes higher: “If I can single-handedly pitch that tent in less than two hours, you all owe me 500,000 won, and if I can’t do it, I’ll pay back the same amount.”... A date was set for the “T24 Festival.” Saturday, August 8, on the grounds of Seoul’s Yangcheon-gu Sinwon Elementary School. A website and online advertising campaign spread quickly, attracting interest from the media as well as companies who offered to sponsor the event... And so, at 3:05 p.m., Bug Lv.7 started his challenge, much to the constant online and offline cheers of netizen crowds. The website that was broadcasting the live event attracted thousands of live streamers and since the event was originally broadcast, the video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times... With the event reaching its climax around an hour later, Lee climbed on top of the large, perfectly-pitched tent to announce his mission complete, saying “I really want to thank those who’ve made me into a ‘legend’ and allowed me to prove I could do it, otherwise I’d have forever been remembered as a phoney,” to euphoric cries from the crowd.

ALT1: ... that the T24 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, was organized after former soldier Lee Kwang-nak boasted on the internet that he could set up a 24-person military tent all by himself? Source: Same source above
ALT2: ... that Lee Kwang-nak became a viral sensation in South Korea after successfully pitching a 24-person military tent all by himself at the T24 Festival despite netizens claiming it was impossible? Source: Same source above
ALT3: ... that Lee Kwang-nak boasted on an internet forum that he could set up a 24-person military tent all by himself and subsequently arranged the T24 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, to actually prove it? Source: Same source above
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Phibeatrice (talk) 18:27, 28 December 2024 (UTC).