나는 운좋은 사나이임에 틀림없다. 송구영신의 그순간, 세계 각국에서는 신년맞이의 열풍속에서 Reveler들의 하늘이 떠나갈듯한 Fire Works의 굉음과 환호성을 간단하게 65" TV앞에 앉아서 즐겼기 때문이다. 지구의 국제 표준 시간에 따라 뉴질랜드, 오스트랄리아에서의 신년환영 축하파티를 출발점으로, 전지구 한바퀴를 거의 돌고나서, 국제표준시간대가 같은 토론토와 뉴욕시는 동시에 신년맞이 파티를 즐겼었다. 한마디로 전지구촌의 인간들이 만들어낸 장관이었다.
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토론토는 시청앞 광장에서 높이 솟아있는 시청 쌍둥이 건물에서 축포가 터져 나왔고, 광장앞에 있는 Ice Rink는 내린비로 Flooding 됐었지만, Skaters들과 Reveler들은 내리는 가랑비를 오히려 화끈하게 열이나있는 가슴을 식히는데 한몫 해주었다는듯이 마냥 즐거워 했었다.
2019년이 오고 있음을 알리는 New York시의 Time Square에 걸려있는 시계탑이 정확히 신년의 출발점인 0 시를 가리킴과 동시에 축포는 밤하늘을 수놓았는데, 이번 신년맞이 환영 파티는 지구 온난화의 영향을 받아, 보슬비가 내리는 속에서 진행됐었던점이 특이 하다고 할까? 아니면 좀 축축한 분위기 였었지만, 젊은 열기로 가득한 젊은이들과는 아무런 상관이 없다는듯이 분위기는 오색찬란하게 밤하늘을 수놓은 환상의 뜨거운 한순간을, 가랑비가 Calm Down 시켜준 구실을 한것으로 이해했었다고나 할까? 암튼 예전과는 다르게 예측이 불허되는 화살같이 변하는 새태를 깊이 느낀 이번 신년맞이는 격세지감을 느끼게 했다.
The
world ushered in 2019 in a variety of ways, with major capitals and
cultural centers drawing the most revelers – and attention.
In
New York, rainy weather didn’t dampen the spirits of those gathered at
Times Square, who were at least grateful for temperatures in the 40s
rather than below freezing.
A reveler adjusts her hat as she waits in Times Square in New York on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, while taking part in a New Year's Eve celebration. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
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Thousands of police officers, many accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs, plus more than 1,200 security cameras and more than 200 "blocker vehicles" were deployed to keep the crowd safe, the New York daily News reported.
“The big party is here in Times Square,” city Police Commissioner James O’Neill told the newspaper. “It’s a wet night but people are still having fun.”
While TV images from New York typically show partiers packed tightly together, this week saw reports that crowd-size estimates may have been overblown over the years.“The big party is here in Times Square. It’s a wet night but people are still having fun.”
Past estimates have pegged the headcount at 1 million or 2 million people. But a British crowd-science professor posited that the actual crowd size is probably more like that of a typical New York Giants game – somewhere short of 100,000 people.
“Generally, people are overestimating crowd sizes by ten- to one hundred-fold," G. Keith Still of Manchester Metropolitan University, who trains police departments on techniques to calculate crowd sizes, told the Associated Press.
Regardless of how many people showed up in Times Square this year, they were treated to performances by Christina Aguilera and Bebe Rexha as they waited for midnight to arrive.
Other cities had their own ways of celebrating.
Las Vegas, for example, was expected to ring in 2019 with fireworks shot from casino-resorts and superstar performances from Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Gwen Stefani and others.
Celebratory midnight toasts were to be anchored by the 8-minute fireworks show on the Strip. The pyrotechnics were to be choreographed to a soundtrack that includes Frank Sinatra's "Luck Be a Lady," Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" and Dion's version of "I Drove All Night."
New Year's Eve is worth more than $400 million to Vegas.
Security is a high priority for police on the Las Vegas Strip, where a gunman in 2017 opened fire on a country music festival, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds of others.
Police, including rooftop snipers and plainclothes and uniformed officers, will be out in full force along with federal agents. Authorities are also restricting revelers from bringing backpacks, ice chests, strollers and glass items to the street celebrations.
Here’s how cities around the world rang in 2019:
RIO DE JANEIRO
More than 2 million people celebrated the new year on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.A 14-minute fireworks display ushered Brazil into 2019 only hours before far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as president.
Many Brazilians were on the road to the capital of Brasilia on Monday night to watch the former army captain's inauguration Tuesday afternoon.
The last evening of 2018 in Rio was 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius), and many Brazilians took a dip in the water and made their offerings to Yemanja, a sea goddess in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble faith.
LONDON
Britons ushered in the new year with the familiar chimes of Big Ben, even though the world famous clock has been disconnected for more than a year because of a conservation project.
Fireworks explode over the London Eye during the New Year's eve
celebrations after midnight in London, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019.(AP
Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
New Year's Eve without Big Ben would be positively un-British. The comforting chimes are used by TV and radio stations throughout Britain to herald the moment of transition from the old to the new year.
PARIS
Parisians and tourists gathered on the Champs-Elysees to celebrate New Year's Eve under heavy security.Anti-government protesters from the yellow vest movement have issued calls on social media for "festive" demonstrations on the famous avenue.
Paris police set up a security perimeter in the area, with bag searches, a ban on alcohol and traffic restrictions. The Interior Ministry said Sunday that the heavy security measures are needed because of a "high terrorist threat" and concerns about "non-declared protests."
President Emmanuel Macron gave his traditional New Year address to briefly lay out his priorities for 2019, as some protesters angry over high taxes and his pro-business policies plan to continue their demonstrations in coming weeks.
Ahead of midnight, a light show with the theme of brotherhood took place on the Arc de Triomphe monument at the top of the Champs-Elysees.
BERLIN
Tens of thousands of people celebrated the start of 2019 at Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate.
Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate
shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019.
Hundred thousands of people celebrated New Year's Eve welcoming the new
year 2019 in Germany's capital. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
By midnight, Berlin police reported fewer incidents than in previous years.
VATICAN CITY
Pope Francis has rounded out the most problematic year of his papacy by presiding over a vespers service and praying before the Vatican's giant sand sculpture Nativity scene.During his homily Monday, Francis lamented how many people spent 2018 living on the edge of dignity, homeless or forced into modern forms of slavery.
Accompanied by his chief alms-giver, Francis then walked out into St. Peter's Square, where he greeted pilgrims and prayed before the Nativity scene, carved out of 720 tons of packed sand.
On Tuesday, Francis will celebrate Mass to mark the start of a new year and officially leave behind 2018, which saw a new eruption of the clergy sex abuse scandal.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Fireworks crackled at Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, as hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered downtown to watch the spectacular display.The fireworks replaced last year's somewhat anticlimactic LED lightshow that ran down the facade of the 828-meter-tall (2,716-foot-tall) tower.
Cafes and restaurants with a view of the Burj Khalifa charge a premium for their locale on New Year's Eve. Casual sandwich chain Pret a Manger, for example, charged $817 for a table of four. That price gets you hot and cold drinks and some canapes. For burgers near the action, fast food chain Five Guys charged $408 per person for unlimited burgers, hotdogs, fries, milkshakes and soda.
Elsewhere in the United Arab Emirates, the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah attempted to set a new Guinness World Record with the longest straight-line display of fireworks reaching 7.35 miles (11.83 kilometers).
THAILAND
While many celebrate New Year's Eve with fireworks, hundreds of Thais traveled to Takien Temple in a suburb of Bangkok to lie inside coffins for traditional funeral rituals.Participants believe the ceremony — symbolizing death and rebirth — helps rid them of bad luck and allows them to be born again for a fresh start in the new year.
They held flowers and incense in their hands as monks covered them with pink sheets and chanted prayers for the dead.
"It wasn't scary or anything. It is our belief that it will help us get rid of bad luck and bring good fortune to our life," said Busaba Yookong, who came to the temple with her family.
PHILIPPINES
Dozens of people have been injured ahead of New Year's Eve, when many across the Philippines set off powerful firecrackers in one of Asia's most violent celebrations despite a government scare campaign and threats of arrests.The Department of Health said it has recorded more than 50 firecracker injuries in the past 10 days. That is expected to increase as Filipinos usher in 2019.
Officials have urged centralized fireworks displays to discourage wild and sometimes fatal merrymaking.
The tradition stems from a Chinese-influenced belief that noise drives away evil and misfortune.
Earlier Monday, suspected Muslim militants remotely detonated a bomb near the entrance of a mall in Cotabato as people did last-minute shopping ahead of celebrations. Officials said at least two people were killed and nearly 30 wounded.
CHINA
New Year's Eve isn't celebrated widely in mainland China, where the lunar New Year in February is a more important holiday. But countdown events were held in major cities, and some of the faithful headed to Buddhist temples for bell-ringing and prayers.Beijing held a gala with VIP guests at the main site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The event looked ahead to the 2022 Winter Games, which also will be held in the Chinese capital.
Outdoor revelers in Beijing had to brave temperatures well below freezing.
Additional police were deployed in parts of Shanghai, where a New Year's Eve stampede in 2014 killed 36 people.
In Hong Kong, festive lights on skyscrapers provided the backdrop for a fireworks, music and light show over Victoria Harbor on a chilly evening.
KIRIBATI
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first in the world to welcome the new year, greeting 2019 with muted celebrations after spending 2018 on the front line of the battle against climate change.Kiribati is made up of low-lying atolls along the equator which intersect three time zones, the first of which sees the new year 14 hours before midnight in London.
Much of the nation's land mass, occupied by 110,000 people, is endangered by rising seas that have inundated coastal villages. The rising oceans have turned fresh water sources brackish, imperiling communities and raising doubts the nation will exist at the next New Year.
Former President Anote Tong said the only future for Kiribati may be mass migration.
The new year was welcomed in the capital, Tarawa, with church services and mostly quiet private celebrations.
AUSTRALIA
An estimated million people crowded Sydney Harbor as Australia's largest city rang in the new year with a spectacular, soul-tinged fireworks celebration.
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour during New Year's Eve
celebrations in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. (Brendan Esposito/AAP via
AP)
Earlier, a thunderstorm drenched tens of thousands of people as they gathered for the traditional display, creating a show of its own with dozens of lightning strikes.
In Melbourne, 14 tons of fireworks deployed on the ground and on roofs of 22 buildings produced special effects including flying dragons. In Brisbane, people watched as fireworks exploded from five barges moored on the Brisbane River.
SOUTH KOREA
2018년도에 북한의 핵개발 프로그람으로 인한 한반도의 비핵화를 이행하기위한 남북 정상회담이 3번씩이 열린후에 있었던 신년맞이 환영 파티는 2019년도에도, 어려운 난관을 극복하고 계속되기를 기원하는속에서 한국인들은 신년을 맞이했었다.
수천명의 한국인들은 서울의 보신각에서 전통적으로 타종하는 축하파티에 참석하기위해 거리를 매웠고, 2017년 판문점을 통해 탈북하여 남한으로 넘어오다 북한군들이 쏘나기처럼 쏜 총알에 맞아 큰 부상을 당한 환자를 치료해줬던, 외과의사 '이국종'씨를 비롯한 유명인사들이 타종함으로써 신년의 문을 열었었다.
"평화의 종"이 북한과의 접경지역에 있는 임진각에서도 타종됐었던 특이힌 신년맞이였다.
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